I am 11 days out and actually feeling pretty good. The one problem I am having is taste. I know any hunger I feel is just head hunger and it's really not a big deal, I get through it just fine. The taste thing is killing me though. I am on clear liquids until at least Friday and am so sick of the liquids I have been drinking. So I lick things.. LOL Examples would be I dip a fork into the pickle jar and lick it. I put a dab (seriously smaller than a pea sized dab) of BWW Parm Garlic sauce on my finger and lick it. I will do this with other things too. Not enough to swallow just enough to get the taste in my mouth and carry me through. Am I going crazy!?! In my head I am calling myself the licker.... aaahhhhh!!

Clear liquids is soooooo hard isn't it lol.

That's pretty normal behavior actually. I prefer you "licking" to the chew and spit I've seen others do. Once you get off liquids, your need to taste things should subside.

Yup, I chewed and spit while on liquids. It wasn't even bad stuff, it was chicken and cherry tomatoes mostly, and it was only one bite on 4-5 different occasions. I just needed to taste something other than my shakes. Moving to purées was a real game changer!

Edited August 31, 201510 yr by MrsRoboto

Chewing and spitting is recognized as disordered eating . . . it can also mess up your metabolism by tricking your system into thinking it is going to receive food which it never gets. Personally I wouldn't mess with licking things or chewing and spitting.

Licking, chewing and spiting, all are the beginning of eating disorders. Don't start those habits.

I am 11 days out and actually feeling pretty good. The one problem I am having is taste. I know any hunger I feel is just head hunger and it's really not a big deal, I get through it just fine. The taste thing is killing me though. I am on clear liquids until at least Friday and am so sick of the liquids I have been drinking. So I lick things.. LOL Examples would be I dip a fork into the pickle jar and lick it. I put a dab (seriously smaller than a pea sized dab) of BWW Parm Garlic sauce on my finger and lick it. I will do this with other things too. Not enough to swallow just enough to get the taste in my mouth and carry me through. Am I going crazy!?! In my head I am calling myself the licker.... aaahhhhh!!

Too funny. I don't think I would have that kind of self control, ID have to take a bite.

@@Whitney1968 I was just thinking that!

Chewing and spitting is recognized as disordered eating . . . it can also mess up your metabolism

Licking, chewing and spiting, beginning of eating disorders. Don't start those habits.

@@kranky813

congrats to you for being PO 11 days, and still around to talk about it

good starting weight loss too

i agree with @Bufflehead @@OutsideMatchInside

"licking" not a good thing

please stop doing this to yourself

NOT a lecture!!!

we all look out for each other and try to help

good luck newbie

kathy

Me too! It's best just to avoid or just have a little when you're able but only once in awhile

Ok, I certainly don't want to go down another bad path and will stop licking. (I am serious but sort of giggling at the same time because it sounds so ridiculous in my head)

I have come too far to damage myself now. I never even thought of an eating disorder. Honestly all I thought to myself was that any flavor had to be better than the liquids I have been drinking on a daily basis. So sad because that little taste of things really helped too.

Soooooo...

I just saw the subject of this thread and HAD to pop in..

Alas, I've nothing further to add...

Well...

Nothing constructive nor appropriate...

Apart from this...

I, too, have been known to lick..

That is all...

Kinda..

I don't think "licking" is the start of a disorder at all. I did it, and I don't have an eating disorder. I don't like the chew and spit because you can inadvertently swallow too much food.

Of couse I agree that you should not be doing it. But I don't think it's going to derail you or cause a full blown eating disorder either. I'll bet there are lots of people who would admit to doing it during the liquid phase.