I've just started the journey and I have found that I'm easily disgusted by food now, but it doesn't stop me from eating! I often think during a good meal "can I give this up?", "why am I eating ALL of it"??? So confusing, I'm battling food? FOOD? It's always available, satisfying, bad for you, good for you.......No wonder we can't stop! How did I lose control to food?

I am pre op and I fight a battle everyday. I wonder sometimes if after I have my surgery will that battle continue. I just know that at that point I am going to have to fight a harder fight. Its a mind thing for me and I just have to get my mind right because I don't plan on losing AT ALL.

Good luck on your battle

I am 3 weeks out and I still fight those cravings and issues. I want to eat more and can not. I love food, always have, always will. I know how you feel. I have read other comments regarding the same thing on here and they say it will get better.

It's a constant battle because our "trigger" foods light up parts of the brain, much like cocaine. For many of us, certain foods are addicting. The more you eat of them, the less they satisfy. So we eat more and more of them to give us the same pleasure. Terrible cycle.

The battle I have is not keeping myself from eating, but making myself eat. Every bite that I do get in is force fed. I do not like food at all now. I like the idea of food, but find it almost impossible to enjoy anything any more. When my husband asks where I want to eat, I tell him it doesn't make a hill of Beans worth a difference. I'm only going to be able to take two bites so I don't care. We used to eat at nice restaurants, but now I don't really want to go because it is a waste of money. I told him next time, I was not even going to order. In my case insted of saying, "you will eat much less" it would have been more accurate for my doc to say, "you will basically never eat again."

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My story is exactly like Benisa's. There are even days where just the smell or thought of food either makes me full or feel kind of nauseated. It can be kind of annoying, honestly, because I have difficulty remembering to eat. I used to eat because I enjoyed it, now I eat just because I have to to stay alive. This won't last forever, and I've lost 90 pounds in less than 4 months, so you won't find me complaining.

My story is exactly like Benisa's. There are even days where just the smell or thought of food either makes me full or feel kind of nauseated. It can be kind of annoying, honestly, because I have difficulty remembering to eat. I used to eat because I enjoyed it, now I eat just because I have to to stay alive. This won't last forever, and I've lost 90 pounds in less than 4 months, so you won't find me complaining.

I have lost 73# in 3 months, so the complete aversion must be working for us. We are way ahead of the curve in terms of weight loss. My doc was just amazed. He says that a bariatric pt. can only expect to lose 50% of their excess body wt..ever. I have already lost that. He was jumping up and down with excitement at my last appointment. I really do hope I can get a little used to food again though. At least not gag every time I see or smell it.

I went through the disgust with food, too. Basically, eating became a chore and one I completely hated. There were days when I would just skip two meals because the thought of eating repulsed me.

But what you're dealing with are the head issues associated with your weight problem. Now that you know you're heading into surgery and being forced to control food (if only for a short time) it's no surprise that it's becoming more apparent.

Immediately after surgery, sure, food can be totally repulsive. But do not go into this counting on that to be the mechanism that helps you overcome the initial problem. Because you will eventually be able to eat more. No, not your pre-surgery portions! However, your capacity at one year is markedly more than six months out. And a lot of us have a smaller increase in capacity sometime between 1.5 and 2 years out. I'll be two years out in July. Not only can I eat a lot more in a sitting but I can eat more frequently. I've said it before but it bears repeating: the sleeve will not let you eat half a pizza in a sitting but nothing is going to stop you from eating a cookie an hour for six hours straight. I can EASILY consume 1400-1700 calories a day if I nibble junk.

I'm not lecturing to make you feel bad. I want you to know that you are not alone in this. We all have issues with food or we'd lose the weight the first time we walk into a Weight Watchers meeting. My suggestion is to take note of what is causing you to eat and of how you relate to food. Do you overeat because you like feeling stuffed? Is it because you're numbing emotions with food? Is it because you're afraid there won't be more food later? Figure it out. Work on it. Do the headwork or you'll be in trouble once you hit maintenance. Because the reality is that the sleeve WILL help you lose weight. But only you can keep the weight off and adopt the lifestyle changes you need to get to and remain at goal.

Good luck!

~Cheri

Thank you all for your responses. I agree with it being a "head" issue. But I also feel it's about convince too. I get stuck in a rut of what to eat, cook and buy. I haven't really cooked much this past year and I think it's because I'm cooking the comfort type of food for so long that I'm not sure how to make those changes. I love to bake which doesn't help either!