Today, I am baking Cookies to take to a friend's house for Christmas. Yesterday I baked a pecan pie. My one-year anniversary of my surgery is in 3 weeks, and I am marveling at how I have changed. I reached goal in early November, having low-carbed the whole time. I don't know whether it was not eating carbs or the surgery but I no longer crave sweet things, and I used to be a dessert fiend. My cookie recipe makes 6 dozen and I will eat one to see if they are good to bring. Before surgery I would have eaten at least a dozen the first day myself, and another three or four at each meal until they were gone.

It is a miracle--now when I am hungry, I eat a slice of deli ham, or half a hard-boiled egg. I haven't had a french fry in over a year and yet I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I told myself before surgery that I would eat what I liked only in small portions--but what I like now is meat, fish, and seafood--without a sugar chaser!

I am so grateful and happy I had surgery. If you are pre-op, my wish for you is that your recovery and weight loss be as easy as mine. If you are post-op, I hope you find a way of eating that makes you happy but gets you to whatever your goal may be.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Good for you! Same here, I could have eatten the whole baking in one or two sittings now I have one or two here and there but thats all. . . yes I eat whatever, but it's not as horrible as before surgery. . . i'm glad i had this surgery and will never look back again!

I love that you are on top of things now. No more cravings and having control of the sweets you munch on. I too have cut my sweets out. It feels really good and I question myself about my weight loss being because of the surgery or the high protein diet I eat. No worries, I don't really care now because I love my weight loss and will keep up because I can't go back. Love the new me. Merry Christmas!

That is awesome. I'm the baker of the family, birthday cakes, holiday events, etc. I don't really eat much of any of it, but to avoid eating the stuff I DO like, I'm putting nuts in everything I would normally eat - I'm allergic to nuts haha.

That is so awesome! I did probably do a little too much "testing" of our baked goodies this year but once they were finished up, I packaged them up and gave them all away so the temptation wasn't around for long.

I do find, though, that while I still enjoy some of the 'bad' foods, as long as I have good, high-Protein Snacks ready at hand, I am OK grabbing those in lieu of the carby, crunch snacks that I used to fall back on.