Hello Everyone! I am having surgery this coming Thursday and I have to say I am grieving... I feel like I am breaking up a life long relationshiop with food and I am honestly depressed. I am excited about the road ahead, but the thoughts of not being able to indulge on Rice A Roni and cheetos... etc... is really setting me back... :think

Please someone tell me they felt this way before surgery too.

Rice a roni and cheetos. Sounds a little strange. lol My favorite was ice cream. What is really strange is i do not miss it. The band REALLY curbs appetite. You will be fine. Donna

I haven't been banded yet...just going to my info seminar this Wednesday, but I know exactly how you feel. I worry too and can get quite anxious. A good friend of mine had gastric bypass surgery 6 months ago and is really doing great. She LOVED chips and other salty Snacks and she says she doesn't miss them anymore. She says her cravings have really changed. I know it is a different surgery, but I am hoping that I will have a similar experience.

Where are you located??? There is a doctor in Portland doing a research study on gastric banding and something to do with the vargus (sp?) nerve to curb appetite. Maybe you could call and ask about the study? Look up Legacy Obesity Clinic in Portland, Oregon and go to research. I don't know anything about the research but maybe it would calm your nerves:)

I keep telling myself that even though I love sweets, not very many will fit in my stomach! Giving up diet Coke is going to be my huge anxiety maker. Let us know how it goes!

Jae:heh:

Hello Everyone! I am having surgery this coming Thursday and I have to say I am grieving... I feel like I am breaking up a life long relationshiop with food and I am honestly depressed. I am excited about the road ahead, but the thoughts of not being able to indulge on Rice A Roni and cheetos... etc... is really setting me back... :think

Please someone tell me they felt this way before surgery too.

I can assure you that your life is not over.

Food became "different" for me after banding. Where as it once took huge quantities to satisfy my hunger, now "Enough is enough".

I still eat Rice A Roni and Cheetos (Not often) but in greatly reduced quantities.

Oh, I ditched my old love. I'm now a scale whore, a running trollop and a new clothes tart. There's plenty more fun out there than being faithfull to your boring old faithful food.!

And you can enjoy NORMAL amounts of those foods in time anyway. If you even want to.

I can't do that because I haven't had my band yet but have been giving it a lot of thought and this is what I'm telling myself. I have a brother and he is naturally thin - has never had much of an appetite and he ate mainly what it sounds like we will be eating after the banding - so (I think) - we are helping ourselves to eat the way naturally thin people usually eat, we just needed a little help.

Donna

Donna

Whew! I was hoping to hear the words ya'll all said! The weekdays are fine- but the weekends are not so easy... I guess I need to get busy planting those bulbs.. and get my mind occupied.

Thanks Everyone!

Whisper