Ok, this will sounds strange, but I am wondering if anyone else understands this feeling. I miss eating huge bites of food - that wonderfully satisfying tearing off the food, chomping on a big ol' forkful, stuffing my mouth until I could barely breath....

Yeah, I know that is what got me in this mess...yeah, I TOTALLY appreciate that I simply cannot do that any longer and that it is the right thing for me - but, man, every time I see someone stuffing their face or taking a huge bite...I just get all kinds of nostalgic and JEALOUS! How nutty is that, I know, but still, anyone get this????

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Ok, this will sounds strange, but I am wondering if anyone else understands this feeling. I miss eating huge bites of food - that wonderfully satisfying tearing off the food, chomping on a big ol' forkful, stuffing my mouth until I could barely breath....

Yeah, I know that is what got me in this mess...yeah, I TOTALLY appreciate that I simply cannot do that any longer and that it is the right thing for me - but, man, every time I see someone stuffing their face or taking a huge bite...I just get all kinds of nostalgic and JEALOUS! How nutty is that, I know, but still, anyone get this????

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That's so funny that you posted this bc I literally just wrote about this on my blog! And yes, to clarify so people dont yell at us...This is why we had a problem, and this is why we need the band...

but

With my second fill I can longer take huge bites, or take a bite of a cookie and wash it down with milk. And when i eat, I have to eat slow...while my boyfriend chows down like he some masked man will come up behind him and make off like a thief in the night if he doesnt eat fast enough.

Makes perfectly good sense though. I can only speak for myself...but I have been eating like this for almost 3 decades! It takes time to change...and during this process...we mourn the loss of the old weigh (pun intended).

omw i am having a grouchy day today because of the SAME thing. I haven't been banded yet and have started to try to eat they way I have read/been told I will following the band. It is a mourning of sorts isn't it? I read a post today about eating until you are not hungry as opposed to eating until you are full. It totally hit me, I have never eaten until I was simply not hungry. I dont even know if I am capable. I mean I KNOW that surely I am capable but omw it requires such thought. such presence when eating. for me it's such a balance between being empowered and sad lol today it's more sad.

I am SO wondering this same thing. My banding is schedule for one week from today. I want to be healthy and thin, but I also am grieving not being able to go to McDonald's and sink my teeth into a Big Mac!!!! I am going to miss bread and fast food terribly!!!