I'm sure you get the drift...it never looked so dern good????????6days post op and yes I'm following my "liquid diet," but I'm so ready to taste some real food can't wait until my 3rd wk do I can include softs. Oh lawd I might just sleep until then, lol

Lol. It will get better. I start my 2 week pre op liquid diet tomorrow and dreading it.

I hear you sis! Tired of the food commercials.

I went through this. Bad!! I was watching a lot of tv which made it worse.

What I did was take a few peices of food- I was craving random things like pickles and ham sandwiches, and I would chew it up and spit all of it out.

Seriously.

This really really helped me and after about another week the urge to do it passed as I lost my food addictions.

@@MzStockton

Stop watching TV with commercials. I watched everything about 10 minutes after it started so I could FF through commercials. Once you get on soft foods, you won't crave food as much. A few more days and you probably won't even be interested in food.

Do not chew food and spit it out. That is terrible habit, don't start. That is eating disorder behavior.

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Edited September 30, 201510 yr by OutsideMatchInside

Thanks????

Hey, I'm just saying what worked for me. I'd don't chew up food and spit it out anymore! It helped me though the worst. I don't think it's eating disordered. One of the things I missed most was chewing. Going from 5000 cals a day to nothing was hard! And temporarily doing this gigot me though it and made it easier. To each their own.

And I happened be more than at goal and very heathy in my diet plan at this point.

Edited October 1, 201510 yr by bellabloom

I'm no expert on eating disorders but I am a mental health professional. If it's not causing someone distress or health problems chewing food and spitting it out is not disordered eating. I can see how it can lead to an eating disorder though.

For what it's worth, my therapist who specializes in not just Bariatric surgery patients but also eating disorders (and a recovered/ing bulimic herself) did say that chewing food and spitting it out is a form of bulimia. Be very very careful with that.

@@MzStockton agree it is HARD! I watched a lot of Food network which was very strange but it is food I wouldn't have eaten anyway even if I could have. ???? you have made it 7 days now. You will get food soon and I cannot tell you how good that first bite of mush will taste! Hang in there. You got this! And PS I definitely went to bed a few times pretty early just to get away from the kitchen and thought of food!

Feeling much better today so I'll be out and about not in the house in front of the tv. It is getting a little easier it's just a mind thing.

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Hahahaha. I just can't let this go I'm sorry.

Chewing and spitting out food- for a normal person with a normal stomach- yup. That's weird. Definitely disordered. Perhaps a form of bulimia... Or the beginning of it.

K.

But in this situation, where a person literally cannot swallow the food because of surgery and they are dealing with massive head hunger and cravings- I don't see how it's so weird!!! It's not bulimia people.

Anyway. You don't have to do it. Al I was saying is it helped me get through. I don't do that anymore, not since the first week of surgery.

Heaven knows we were all eating disordered at some point in this ordeal. Use whatever tools you must to get through the hard times. Turn off the boob tube, and avoid commercials. Chew up and spit out...whatever it takes. Please don't forget to thank whomever you must for the opportunity to be healthy.

I have done the same thing, chewed food and spat it out, it helped me and I only did it a few times:) definitely not a eating disorder as I have lost 12kg in less than 3 weeks!

Edited October 4, 201510 yr by Pipsqueak