I feel like I'm obsessed with food now more than ever. My cravings/appetite has returned, and now I'm constantly obsessing over how I can have what I want but make it fit into my 800 calories per day. Because I'm so limited, I want everything to taste phenomenal. It's so strange. Is this dysfunctional?

Edited May 21, 201610 yr by her1981

LOL I don't really like hugs from strangers... I'm weird like that.

Me neither! Which is funny because I am very huggy with my family and friends.

@@her1981 i have found a pretty good way to eat whatever i want tho my struggle is actually getting enough to eat cuz i'm totally off food. anyways i can make pizza, spaghetti, enchiladas, fried rice, brownies etc. i just make sure it's got no carbs and no sugar. try cauliflower fried rice or pizza with cauliflower crust, or spaghetti squash lasagna. i also make a killer low carb brownie with almond flour and frosting. it's all possible if you're willing to be creative. also, you need more Protein if you're hungry all the time. protein keeps you from feeling starved. good luck mama! you got this!

@@pr_pitbullgrl Luckily I don't really have a sweet tooth, so I'm good with a sugar free fudgecicle when I want something sweet. I don't like rice and I don't care much for Pasta, so it's been really easy to go without that kind of stuff. Now, tortillas, chips, and potatoes are another story. I've learned to get along without them, but I do have a little on holidays. Outside of that, I'm super low carb day in and day out. If we have pizza, I just eat the tops, I like making stuff with zoodles... I feel like my eating is fine. I'd just like the scale to cooperate so I can stop obsessing about the numbers/calories. It's like I don't trust myself...

@@her1981 haha i hear you there. i make a pretty mean Parmesan cheese chip or a decent butternut squash chip but i don't have to tell you, you've lost over 140lbs! that's amaze. are you working out?

@@pr_pitbullgrl Yes, but not at much as I should. I walk a lot (about 45 minutes to an hour daily), but I need to incorporate more resistance training. I haven't done it in about 2 months... (I had to have surgery to remove kidney stones last month and have been on restriction. I got cleared for regular activity 2 weeks ago but I still had pain.) I'm gonna give it a go tonight, though.

Congrats on your loss as well!! 10 pounds to goal is awesome!

Edited May 24, 201610 yr by her1981

LOL I don't really like hugs from strangers... I'm weird like that.

Seriously! I'm the same way!

Me too!

@@Inner Surfer Girl I really hated OA. Maybe I need to find a different meeting. The one I went to was too huggy, lol

Perhaps, you could try eating disorders anonymous. I am a therapist and found OA to be contributing to disordered eating, especially if you want control all the time. EDA focus was different, just an option. However, there aren't a lot of meetings, but you can do online. From what I've read posted, I concur with the many others on here, a good therapist is warranted. Eating disorders are rarely about the actual food, but are often about the emotions behind it.....the ones we don't or can't deal with on our own.

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@@Mamapiller Thank you

@@pr_pitbullgrl recipes!!! for the chips

I am hugging ALL of you!

@ omg so easy.

here are the recipes i use:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/parmesan-crisps-recipe.html

http://www.acouplecooks.com/baked-butternut-squash-chips/

I have not been Sleeved yet, but in general, I notice that I am a starving lunatic on low-calories (and then crash and burn), but on lower carb (like 40 grams a day) and no calorie counting I am not starving and lose some weight.

Sounds like you are not "Obsessed" but hungry!

@@Anna Nim I am hungry!

Quite often in fact. I never really got a huge reduction in hunger. It did decrease temporarily, but it's back!!

Edited May 24, 201610 yr by her1981

I have found that sites like MY FITNESS PAL are indispensable !!! You absolutely MUST accurately log your food & exercise . I was quite successful in my approach to loosing weight. If you tell the absolute truth on Protein, calories, and exercise, I find it hard to believe it physically possible to stall at your weight with the calories claimed to consume. I consume 1200 to 1500 cal. per day, walk an hour or two a day, consume 100 to 140 grams of protein a day and I'm 62 years old and...well look at my banner to see my success and I lost nearly all my weight in the first year.

Honest consumption and exercise logging will tell the truth, physics don't fib

A tip....eat dense protein FIRST. I am nearly 5 years post op and fell into a habit of having salads with protein in them. A smart nutritionist reminded me that the dense protein needs to press against the bottom of stomach to keep satiated longer.