I was talking to my therapist about this yesterday. My surgery is tomorrow, and I'm very concerned that I'm going to fall into the trap I've seen many on these forums, fall into…going back to the way they used to eat, after surgery. Therapist told me something I found very interesting. He said, eat food is really a meditative process. Its the way my brain has learned to filter out all the noise and chaos and focus in, very narrowly, on one thing. Even the movement of 'fork to face' is rhythmic and meditative. Isn't that interesting. So now, I'm having to learn new techniques, teach my brain different ways to soothe and filter. I think I'm going to take up crochet again, during my recovery. That's a pretty rhythmic activity. But food can never again be used as an option for self soothing, at least not for me. And there is sorrow there, thinking about that. But, the excitement about what lays before me is so much greater.

What have you taken up, in place of food?

Yoga & meditation !

That's a very interesting observation. Food is a sort of meditation if you think about it. I haven't come up with an alternative.