Hi, everyone and happy Friday!

Like many on here I imagine, I have an unhealthy love affair with food. I'm working on getting control and getting healthier before I decide to have surgery, but I wonder how my feelings will change towards food post-sleeve.

Since the amount one can eat is so reduced, has it been your experience that you feel deprived? For example, if you have a piece of delicious pizza, but can only eat a few bites, do you sit there craving the rest of it and wishing you could eat it or do you feel full and satisfied?

I know my eating will change forever after the sleeve and I'm wondering how feelings of satiety and satisfaction come into play. I hate feeling deprived of everything I like and would love to just eat healthy, small portions but still feel like I can enjoy food. I hope this makes sense and I would greatly appreciate your insights!

Honestly, for a couple of years I felt like I wished I could finish a meal. I would have given anything for the ability to do that just temporarily. Now I don't feel that way at all. It's hard to have been a food addict all your life and then to not be able to eat. It's an adjustment, but you'll make it!

Hi, everyone and happy Friday!

Like many on here I imagine, I have an unhealthy love affair with food. I'm working on getting control and getting healthier before I decide to have surgery, but I wonder how my feelings will change towards food post-sleeve.

Since the amount one can eat is so reduced, has it been your experience that you feel deprived? For example, if you have a piece of delicious pizza, but can only eat a few bites, do you sit there craving the rest of it and wishing you could eat it or do you feel full and satisfied?

I know my eating will change forever after the sleeve and I'm wondering how feelings of satiety and satisfaction come into play. I hate feeling deprived of everything I like and would love to just eat healthy, small portions but still feel like I can enjoy food. I hope this makes sense and I would greatly appreciate your insights!

I'm only 10 weeks out (12-9-10) and have not felt deprived. I'm a "Guzzler 'n Shoveler" and the sleeve has just been a tool to remind me to sip and chew chew chew. When I'm done, I'm done. For me, it's been a freedom that is allowing me to lose weight (34 pounds) and get healthy. Again, it's only a tool. Good luck!

Hi, everyone and happy Friday!

Like many on here I imagine, I have an unhealthy love affair with food. I'm working on getting control and getting healthier before I decide to have surgery, but I wonder how my feelings will change towards food post-sleeve.

Since the amount one can eat is so reduced, has it been your experience that you feel deprived? For example, if you have a piece of delicious pizza, but can only eat a few bites, do you sit there craving the rest of it and wishing you could eat it or do you feel full and satisfied?

I know my eating will change forever after the sleeve and I'm wondering how feelings of satiety and satisfaction come into play. I hate feeling deprived of everything I like and would love to just eat healthy, small portions but still feel like I can enjoy food. I hope this makes sense and I would greatly appreciate your insights!

Not really. I don't crave things very often, and when I do eat something I really want, it just doesn't taste as good as it used to. I pampered myself with some Nutella crepes this morning, 1st time post-up. These used to be like crack for me, and while they tasted fine to me this morning, they didn't taste any better than a yogurt or an egg would've - I could easily never touch them again and be perfectly happy. Before, I'd pack away like 4 or 5, until I felt nauseous from the sugar rush! Food just doesn't excite me as much as it used to. The only times I wish I could eat more is when I see an appetizer AND a main dish AND a dessert on the menu when we go out, and want them all - but since I can only eat a few bites of each, I have to make a choice. But then I think that I can always come back again and try whatever I ended up not having, so it's not a huge deal.

Hi, everyone and happy Friday!

Like many on here I imagine, I have an unhealthy love affair with food. I'm working on getting control and getting healthier before I decide to have surgery, but I wonder how my feelings will change towards food post-sleeve.

Since the amount one can eat is so reduced, has it been your experience that you feel deprived? For example, if you have a piece of delicious pizza, but can only eat a few bites, do you sit there craving the rest of it and wishing you could eat it or do you feel full and satisfied?

I know my eating will change forever after the sleeve and I'm wondering how feelings of satiety and satisfaction come into play. I hate feeling deprived of everything I like and would love to just eat healthy, small portions but still feel like I can enjoy food. I hope this makes sense and I would greatly appreciate your insights!

Hi and welcome! I'm 5 months out and I really don't miss food at all and let me tell you I was a full-fledged raving food addict -- used it for anything, good, bad, and just to eat. But I don't really want to eat anymore -- occasionally I will wish, like Blackberry, that I could eat more from a nice menu, but that's it. I know I can't eat much, and even when I think I might really really like it, my tastebuds have changed soooo much that I don't enjoy what I'm eating as much. Suffice it to say I eat to live now, instead of living to eat.