I was banded on 09/22/05. I have found that since then I have been having very vivid dreams about food. I mean lots and lots of food. Food is everywhere and, yes I am enjoying it very much. In my dreams I sneak Cookies into my pocket, excuse myself so that I can go into another room that has food and eat without being seen, and so on and so on.

Also, I love to cook, and since the weather has turned cool, I find myself wanted to cook and bake. I have tons of cookbooks and I have found myself going through them trying to decide what to cook for my family. I have finally realized that cookbooks are my pornography. I can get very excited thinking about what I want to cook and how it will taste.

Can anybody else relate to this. I know I have to quit looking at my cookbooks - that is such self-defeating behavior. But I can't stop my dreams. Oh well, at least I can satisfy my cravings in my sleep and not gain weight!

Cat

When I was following the Atkins diet, I had a funny dream that I was going down a HUGE slide and on one side of the slide there were donuts on the other side of the slide there were ice cream bars. The object was to slide down and grab as much food as you can. I woke up laughing my ass off. I also used to dream of my favorite candy Pnut M&M's....sigh.

You can keep looking at your cook books, except this time, try to figure out ways to cook your favorite meals more healthy. It could be fun !!

Your not alone

I been banded 11 days, (I´m on full liquids) and lately I dream of food every night lol, also I don't cook, but when I am watching T.V. and changing channels, I stop if I see someone cooking and watch mesmerized all the cooking shows!!!!

It's so funny that you wrote this post. I'm not yet banded, but after deciding to do so, I have had several dreams related to food. One of my concerns about getting the band is missing food. I really thought I was the only one dreaming about food. Good to know I'm not nuts. After having these dreams I began to wonder about how unhealthy that is. Food is my drug....so sad ....

I'm so looking forward to cooking without the insane appetite to just overeat the results. I buy a magazine here in Australia called Delicious which is full of gorgeous recipes, but I never enjoy it becuase if I go to the effort I feel like I have to eat enormous quanities.

It always looks so good served up on a big white plate, but different when its heaped and the plate is groaning.

I cant wait for that. I think I'm going to enjoy cooking and eating way more than I do now.

I was banded 9/26 and since then have had at least 5 food dreams. In the dreams I am enjoying the food very much too except that all of a sudden I remember I'm not supposedc to be having them and I feel very sad and guilty. 20 years ago when I got off drugs I had many, many "using" dreams. It is just one of those addiction withdrawal things.