I just got home, my husband is eating carls jr and my parent ordered pizza... I swear im so mad I can't eat, in on the verge of tears. Its not just the fact that I can't eat...but how come they can eat whatever and not gain like me... !? Its not fair. But let me tell them how I really feel or even cry and I look like I'm that addicted to food. Srry just venting

I completely understand. I come from a family of skinnies and constantly being compared to my sister. And while I have been in this diet looking smelling and thinking of food makes me want to just get "one bite" knowing it will do me any good. So what I do is have some salas or jello stay away from the food and start working out or go walking. It helps because you can eat something and secondly you can workout

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I am sorry I hope your day gets better. Sending positive energy your way.

We all have moments like this when we're on a diet, don't we? It's incredibly frustrating. You're allowed to feel sorry for yourself, though. I used to get so frustrated with my family even before surgery because I was diabetic and half the places they wanted to eat didn't really have a good option for my strict diet.

The reality is that you'll probably go through a good patch of feeling this way, off and on. Now, once you're sleeved it's different. You might still want that food because it smells good (or you're on liquids and want to chew something!) but a lot of us find that things simply don't taste the same to us and those old favorites aren't appealing anymore.

It's hard and you have every right to feel angry and frustrated and sorry for yourself. But you're making a change that's going to impact the rest of your life for the better. It's worth the suffering now. And those foods aren't gone forever, either. You could choose to eat almost anything after you're healed, in moderation. You'll probably find that your tastes and your ability to eat certain foods has changed but you'll have the option. Sometimes, the hardest part is just being told you can't do something - once you choose not to do it on your own you feel differently about the whole thing.

Good luck! Less than three weeks before you're rocking that sleeve...and a diet of clears!

~Cheri