I don't have a surgery date yet but it's likely to be in early Feb and I'm finding that I'm starting to sort of 'panic' about food. I'm eating more than usual and eating more sweets than I normally would. I have this feeling that I need to eat all these things now because soon I won't be able to.

Did anyone else experience this in the lead up to their surgery?

Yes I did and I had to work hard at controlling that fear. But you really need to practice self control. It is possible you will be able to eat most things you enjoy now but in smaller amounts. Don't gain weight prior to your surgery. It's not healthy and think how much farther you will have to go in your journey. Good luck to you.

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I'm struggling with this also... So annoying. Smh

I did the same thing. I gained 8 pounds after my first weigh in with my doctor. They told me I had to maintain my initial weight or lose some weight but that I couldn't gain any. It was hard but I realized food is food. It will always be there. It will never go away. I had moments when I was in the liquid diet preoperative phase that I would panic but I kept telling myself that it's only food. It will always be there. I had to mentally tell myself that I'm ok and not to panic. I stuck to low carb eating to lose the 8 pounds prior to preoperative liquid diet. What I did was weigh myself everyday to keep myself accountable and to make sure I at least maintained my weight. Some people will say weighing eat day is obsessive but I don't see it that way. It helped me stay in check. If the number went up, I would look at what I ate the previous day and make an adjustment to not eat the same thing for the next day. It worked for me.

I did the same thing. I gained 8 pounds after my first weigh in with my doctor. They told me I had to maintain my initial weight or lose some weight but that I couldn't gain any. It was hard but I realized food is food. It will always be there. It will never go away. I had moments when I was in the liquid diet preoperative phase that I would panic but I kept telling myself that it's only food. It will always be there. I had to mentally tell myself that I'm ok and not to panic. I stuck to low carb eating to lose the 8 pounds prior to preoperative liquid diet. What I did was weigh myself everyday to keep myself accountable and to make sure I at least maintained my weight. Some people will say weighing eat day is obsessive but I don't see it that way. It helped me stay in check. If the number went up, I would look at what I ate the previous day and make an adjustment to not eat the same thing for the next day. It worked for me.

Thank you for this. It's a good strategy I'll adopt. I really like the "it's only food" idea.

I definitely felt this way before I had my surgery too. I was so afraid that I was never going to enjoy eating again! For me, food was standing in for all kinds of unmet needs and that was the real panic-if I couldn't substitute food for all the things my life was lacking I was afraid that I would not be able to cope. But the truth is, that a few months after surgery you will probably be able to eat most of the things that you eat now, but you won't want to. And if you slip up here or there, it's not really that big a deal because people like us will have to watch our relationships with food for the rest of our lives.

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Glad I found this I am having my Sleeve on 20th Jan and have been eating more and thinking the same that I won't be able to eat this when had op! I really must try to eat a little healthier before starting my LSD

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I did when i first started the process and thought about all the foods i was giving up so what i did was ween my self off of sugar first because it was the hardest after not eatting it after a while every thing became too sweet i ate slower and ate from a smaller plate not a tea plate but a smaller one then i learned to not eat everything on my plate even if iw was jusy a spoon full left and i did not condem myself eatring is natural i made bad choices with my food but food is not mu enemy i really took it slow i didnt lose as much as everyone but i lost and i changed my eatting habits and my thoughts that was a bigger victory for me then the lost of weight. And i dont miss what a i gave up because it was no longer my labeled as bad food or special for me. Im still learning to keep the mind frame foo is not my enemy friend or reward food is my fuel

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I enjoy eating more now as I savor it and don't eat past the time when it tastes good (I used to). Maybe because of my many experiences with dieting over the years I trusted that this would happen eventually, so I was really good about following the NUT suggestions during my several month pre-op process. I think it helped me transition to eating post-op, and I lost 35 pounds pre-op.