I INHALE my food. I disgust myself. It's such a bad, rotten habit that has gotten worse over time. I am quite sure that would make for a very unpleasant experience with the band.

Today I am making a very concentrated effort to chew and count my chews! It's amazing how much better things taste with proper chewing.

The band will help you with that habit. But it is better to do it the easy way and start now. So you will not get food stuck. Do not be disgusted with yourself just realize we all eat some types of food faster than others.

I am banded and I have noticed if I eat watermelon I eat too fast and always get these really bad hicups that warn me to slow down now.

You and I both need to build our self esteem, it will help both of us throught this process.

I always felt like that, I hated that I was always the first one finished.

One of the kind of perverse things I love about this surgery is that now I eat like a lady. I'm always the last finished, i eat small amounts and I eat nicely - AND it doesnt take a supreme act of mental willpower so huge that I dont even enjoy my food to do it.

:sad: Love your thread title!!

My husband had gotten into the habit of eating very fast. He's on the road often, and sometimes has little time to eat. I've told him to slow it down, but now that I have to eat much slower, he's finally listening, at least when he's with me.

Either out of forming new healthier eating habits or by negative reinforcement, you will lose those nicknames. :mad: