Hi All!

I was sleeved on August 5th and I couldn't be happier! I did a 2 week liquid diet and I'm on stage 2 of my post-op diet - so far I'm down 33.5 pounds (the office was shocked and made me get back on the scale, lol). I see a lot about cravings and trying to forge ahead on the post-op plan but all I can think about is MEAT! I have zero interest in sweets, fruits, veggies or snack foods. All I dream about is meat. Lately I've woken up literally salivating over a fresh crab cake topped with a poached egg and some hollandaise sauce (when my husband and I first started dating, we ran a restaurant review blog). I am one of those "follow the rules till the end" people and I know right now my new stomach can't handle meat or anything like it but good golly, these cravings are insane. Last night my husband was eating some fresh sausages and I actually licked one (bizarre, I know) but it was like I got a peak into heaven for a moment.

Is anything else going through this? Tell me I can't be the only one who licks meat...

When I was on my 10 day liquid diet I had a dream about a ribeye and a baked potato. In the dream they were the best ever on the planet. It was so vivid.

Anyone is going to have cravings and dreams about food if they have essentially been on liquid for a month. The one thing I noticed about my cravings is they never translated to my stomach and cause me to be ravenously hungry like they would have in the past. That is when I knew my sleeve was really working, and that made me really satisfied with my choice.

I see a lot of people licking foods, chewing and spitting food out just to get the taste etc. That is a path to eating disorders and I am recovering from one eating disorder (binge eating), I am not going to start the path to another.

I do understand that other people have more temptations. I live alone, there are no bad foods in my home. I do not work in an office, I work from home. There is no one eating around me, and temping me. The only place I go every day is the gym, and everyone there is drinking Water and Protein shakes just like me.

When I really want meat I drink the organic lamb broth from Whole Foods with unflavored Protein powder in it. That solves my craving. It is the ONLY store bought broth I have found with flavor.

I do have cravings, 12 days post op. They are not as strong as they were, but mine is for chicken and fish, and cannot wait until i get to that stage, without pureeing, that's next week. I do hope it disappears, as cravings and overeating is what got me here.