Hi there! I had my surgery on August 15th and so far I have had a complication free, speedy and very lucky recovery. I have lost 47 pounds including a one week pre-op which I am pretty excited for! Well I have an interesting story (I'll make it short, I promise) that I want to share with you.

[below talks about lots of junk food - don't read if you are sensitive to that kinda thing, heh]

Before getting the gastric sleeve I was an emotional eater. I binged multiple times a week and the only person who knows is my mom and a good friend of mine. Food was my best friend. I used to eat huge quantities, well over 10,000 calories at a time and end my day with a big thing of ice-cream. I still get disgusted thinking about eating everything that I did. And I did this multiple times a week for years. Anyway~

Besides deep fried cheesy foods, sweets was my number one go-to food. You know those, "Oops, we baked too much!" 50% off carts they have at super markets? Yeah, I attacked that. Sometimes getting two dozen donuts, 24 count Cookies, etc that would sit in my stomach after a day and a half (not including all the chips, Pasta, cheese sticks, hot pockets, etc I would eat prior) I was a wreck.

[end junk food]

Anyway, now that I had the sleeve I have had no cravings other than fresh fruit. I am allowed SF/FF pudding (I got dark chocolate, my favorite) and I took one bite and it was far too rich! It went down smoothly and I had no problems but it was just disgusting. Pre-surgery the richer the better! But no, I just can't tolerate it now. I tried again a week later (the other day) and took one small spoon. Nope, not happening. I just don't want it and I gave it to my mother and said she can eat them.

ISN'T IT CRAZY HOW MUCH YOU CAN CHANGE AFTER SURGERY?

This super-super-sweet girl doesn't like sweets! I get great satisfaction by adding a strawberry to my crystal lite lemonade or eating two small blackberries but nothing more. I think this is a big fat NSV!!!!!!!!

Does anyone have a story similar to mine?

I think a lot of us have some similarities. I didn't purge, but I was a huge fried food, fast food, sweets girl myself. After surgery (I'm 13 weeks out) food just doesn't have the same appeal. It's hard to explain how, but my hunger feels different too. I have all I can do to get my 2-3 oz of Protein in each meal, never mind the extra veggies or carbs I should be trying to add.

Best of luck to you!

I went out to lunch with my coworkers today. First restaurant since surgery. I had a few bites of grilled chicken and lettuce and was full. Boxed the rest up and didn't want another bite! Normally I would have been chowing down on the "bottomless fries" but didn't have a single one today.

I'm the same! I'm almost 9 months out and I had a bite of chocolate cake the other week and just thought oh my gosh this is sweet! Way too rich! And then I thought back to how I could have had 2 or 3 generous pieces before surgery.

I hate to seem like a klutz, but I keep seeing the abbreviation NSV used, but I have no idea what it means. New sleave.. something?

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Non scale victory.