OK, I am 9months post op, never an issue at all since being sleeved, I just HATE eating. It isn't enjoyable at all. In fact, it actually feels more like work now than anything. I eat slow, take small bites, watch what I eat. It just feels gross when I eat, and I can still feel my sleeve moving when digesting (tmi, sorry). Milk tears my stomach up now, but I can still have cheese and yogurt.

Ya see, the issue is, I know I HAVE to eat, for health and nutrition, but I simply don't want to. My husband even mentioned that eating with me is depressing. He said I just look sad! Anyone else feel like this?

I have these same issues. I was sleeved 09/25. I don't enjoy eating because if the pain in my stomach after and i cant tolerate Water of any type or tea. I love on 1% milk. Most days I'm so depressed I dont even want to get out of bed. My dr keeps giving my new meds to try and stop the gagging but no luck yet.

Klperry I am 12 wks post-op and I still can not tolerate any type of water. I did buy some product called thick it to make it a little thicker. And it went well for two days because I was at work. I just forget when I am at home. I do try and drink two shakes a day to help with Protein and at least two cups of fluids.

Eating has become a chore and if I wait to long to eat I start feeling weak and sick..

Good luck ..

I am 6 weeks post-op and feel like all you guys! Eating isn't orgasmic like it once was, which is a good thing, except that's yet another thing to get used to! I miss my water straight without Crystal lite, etc. Salads are now my fantasy foods! I probably won't be able to eat even a tiny one for another 3 months-I cannot tolerate most veggies I've tried. I could be depressed over it, but I've got bigger problems in my life so my food and weight issues are insignificant to me right now. I'm just glad that I feel terrific, except for tiring easy and needing 12 hours of sleep (including a nap) every day. The weight is coming off, a little slower now, but it's coming off! Just think of where you'll be in a year from now-we will all be close to, if not at goal-it will have been worth every sacrifice to me to weigh in the 100's again. I can't wait!!

Well, I can't say I hate eating, but it certainly is not as pleasurable as before. The reason it sometimes feels like work is that we need to eat when not hungry in order to fuel properly. I eat every 3 hours and most of he time my food choices are pretty plain, however, they do fill me up and leave me satisfied. I would rather have a good working relationship with food then the master-slave relationship that existed before. Being out of control with food messed with so many other aspects in my life. I hated it as i would et and eat looking for it to fill a void in my life, sometimes that meant a whole box of donut holes or a whole row of Oreos. i kept eating, looking to keep the sugar pleasure going. however, in the end it just led to feelings of guilt, hatred and self loathing. Now I feel free and am no longer a slave to eating. You might consider looking for pleasure from other things. For example, a good workout, reading a good book, friendships, hobbies, watching a movie, spending more time with significant other, etc.

Eatting does seem like s task, just dont put yourself in situations you know isnt good for you.

For me, it's breaking the "speed eating" habbit. I'm going to get a minute timer (sand hourglass) to help me slow down for crying out loud!! Even though I don't feel the same hunger I used to Pre sleeve, for some reason I feel the need to shovel my little baby spoonfuls of food into my mouth. I'm chewing well or still mashing my food up a little so I can get more down but it's the taking my time that I really need to work on. Anyone have some tips? Even when I put my spoon down, I pick it right up. I forget to slow down until it's too late and I eat one spoonful too many-then I can't even finish my tiny meal at all!

I have not been sleeved yet, but it sounds pretty depressing reading the love-hate relationship with food. We all loved food that is why we had to use this as an alternative...I guess I am already mourning food and I have not even had my surgery yet. We cannot do anything or attend any function without food being involved..(slow breaths) I can do this...I have to.

OK, I am 9months post op, never an issue at all since being sleeved, I just HATE eating. It isn't enjoyable at all. In fact, it actually feels more like work now than anything. I eat slow, take small bites, watch what I eat. It just feels gross when I eat, and I can still feel my sleeve moving when digesting (tmi, sorry). Milk tears my stomach up now, but I can still have cheese and yogurt.

Ya see, the issue is, I know I HAVE to eat, for health and nutrition, but I simply don't want to. My husband even mentioned that eating with me is depressing. He said I just look sad! Anyone else feel like this?

I am 9 months post op also. I don't exactly hate eating but I don't love it or enjoy it anymore either. There are days when I get a sad because someone is eating something that I used to love like cheesecake or a burger from Red Robin but then I remind myself that those foods put my health and life at risk. Lots of the foods I used to eat, I avoid now because I can't tolerate them but most of those foods were unhealthy to begin with. Everytime I get a little depress about not being able to eat, I look at my before and after picture on my iPhone.

I now go for foods that I know will be easily tolerated like salads, oatmeal, yogurt, tuna salad, fish, soft cooked veggies. The one thing a really miss is a big glass of ice cold milk. But I am a size 0 now with no high blood pressure, no pre diabetic signs, normal heart function, no back pain, no ankle pain, no knee pain, no snoring, etc... I can live with getting a little sad 3-30 mins meal times a day in exchange for a healthier me.

I am 9 months post op also. I don't exactly hate eating but I don't love it or enjoy it anymore either. There are days when I get a sad because someone is eating something that I used to love like cheesecake or a burger from Red Robin but then I remind myself that those foods put my health and life at risk. Lots of the foods I used to eat' date=' I avoid now because I can't tolerate them but most of those foods were unhealthy to begin with. Everytime I get a little depress about not being able to eat, I look at my before and after picture on my iPhone.

I now go for foods that I know will be easily tolerated like salads, oatmeal, yogurt, tuna salad, fish, soft cooked veggies. The one thing a really miss is a big glass of ice cold milk. But I am a size 0 now with no high blood pressure, no pre diabetic signs, normal heart function, no back pain, no ankle pain, no knee pain, no snoring, etc... I can live with getting a little sad 3-30 mins meal times a day in exchange for a healthier me.[/quote']

A size "0"!!!!??!! Wow! That is spectacular!! I'll be thrilled to be a size 10- from a 22/24! I agree with the health benefits as well-I've already reversed type 2 diabetes, no more sleep apnea (ya!) and my back and feet aren't killing me every day any more. And that's after losing less than 1/2 of my goal weight! Sure, I miss the crunch of food but I know eventually I'll eat salads and other things I sometimes miss. But I'm so thankful that I had the surgery when I did-I have other issues in my life regarding my teenage daughter-in the past I would totally binge everytime I had a stressful encounter with her, by now I would have gained another 50 pounds instead if losing it! So, when I'm missing my cookies/cake/candy/bread or pie-I think of how I'm keeping it together in my life so I'm healthier and better equipped to help my daughters (I have two, ages 17 and 18)--the "fen teen" years! Pray for me!

I have not been sleeved yet, but it sounds pretty depressing reading the love-hate relationship with food. We all loved food that is why we had to use this as an alternative...I guess I am already mourning food and I have not even had my surgery yet. We cannot do anything or attend any function without food being involved..(slow breaths) I can do this...I have to.

Don't worry, the weight you lose in first 15 days i.e. time when you will be on Clear liquids etc, will motivate you so much that all of this will be a breeze. All the best

Do you perhaps have a sour stomach? I was watching a you tube video by a sleever and she said everything just didn't feel right. She had no idea she had acid reflux. After getting on Prilosec, then later Prevesid, she felt normal again. Just a thought.

OMG!!!!!!!! YES yes a thousand time YES,

I guess that where the terminology came from "food funeral" it feels like your at a food funeral every time you sit down to eat. I feel for you.

I'm only 5 months out 19lbs away from being in ONEderland. I found more pleasure in cooking the food the eating it, but I more over enjoy it too see my family members enjoying my good food so I look at it that way and it kinda helps. I did this surgery for a reason so I think like this is something for something in order for me to be healthy for my family and for myself.

Every time I eat I feel like my food doesn't digest but I feel and hear my sleeve doing something. It's a yucky nauseous feeling for a good hour after eating. I'm 8 mos post. Is this normal?

Every time I eat I feel like my food doesn't digest but I feel and hear my sleeve doing something. It's a yucky nauseous feeling for a good hour after eating. I'm 8 mos post. Is this normal?

I don't think so and have never experienced this.

I hated eating for almost 2 years. But something has changed now and it's not like that anymore. It does change. It does get better.

I used to live and breathe by when I would get my next meal. I'd eat gargantuan portions and the smell of food got me salivating at every turn. Kind of like a junkie looking for their next fix to be quite honest with you all. Food was SO delicious.

I must confess I can completely relate. My experience thus far is not at all what I thought it would be.

I'm 11 days post-op and I hate eating. It's not enjoyable for me, though admittedly I'm on "full liquids" at this stage. But I feel always full, I have no desire to eat AT ALL... my relationship with food is so broken.

Now, there's nothing. No appetite, no desire, no hunger, no growling stomach, nothing. If I wasn't for fear of dehydration or dying of starvation I'd be quite happy to sit for days and not put a thing in my mouth. It's *work* now to eat, it feels like a chore, and anything I eat sits there like a lead brick and gurgles uncomfortably, after which is 30 minutes of burping.

I know that I have to eat to heal and I have to get calories in so my metabolism isn't destroyed but I'm finding it really hard. :-(

OP, I know how you feel, girl. I don't wanna put it in my mouth.