I feel like I am going backwards and possibly going back to my old ways. I am Looking to share my experience and see what others are experiencing themselves. I want to discussions some of challenges we come across after the surgery. Primarily what we can do to help and motivate each other.

Sleeved August 6 (originally scheduled July 30). I can completely identify, and here are some examples:

I am eating more than my share of barbecue and other heavy meats, probably in place of the bread I can't eat anymore.

I am going to bad places compulsively, even though I bring almost everything home and never get to about half of it.

I am drinking Diet Coke at an increasing rate...even when it makes my sleeve feel awful.

I am occasionally forgetting the Vitamins, especially when feeling irritable as a result of lack of nourishment.

I am occasionally eating out of boredom, although that is now quickly satisfied.

I think it is a valid point that this is only a tool, however, I think there are some built-in assumptions that very little about your brain will actually change, and that this is a way to handcuff, rather than change, the damaging aspects of our psychological makeup. I feel that in general, very little has changed about my tastes, and almost nothing has changed about my food OCD. I feel that as long as we don't force the exact same lifestyle as before through the sleeve, it will be an effective and worthwhile investment.

@ please be careful with the Diet Coke. Carbonation is no good for the sleeve. I used to be a big time soda and seltzer water drinker. But every time I am tempted I just think how hard it would be to do a revision and I am perfectly happy with my new vitamin water zero addiction thank you very much.