The Devil invented MILKSHAKES!!!

Seriously, icecream convieniently accessable through straws...pure evil.  I am stuck in the insurance approval part of my wls and everything is calling my name. Everytime I think of having RNY, some tv network show has someone cooking something with "lots of butter".  I keep thinking about what life will be like after sugery.  No more Oktoberfests....no more icecream, sugar, Haloween candy, late night splurges, no elephant ears, cotton candy, candy apples, brownies, Starbucks....G's!  What's a girl to do.  I know that it will make me loose weight and be healthier, but does anyone out there just think, "ohhh...just to taste that" or "I bet that would just melt in my mouth"...Don't any of you have that or does that change?  PLEASE GOD tell me that changes!! 

Wendy

Hi Wendy,  I had the same fears before RNY.  I love food and was very afraid that I would miss that pleasure in my life.  I am now 14months post surgery.  I have lost all the weight I need now and I am at my goal weight.  I can eat anything....the difference is that I eat in moderation now.  I don't really deny myself anything but now instead of eating it all I just have one or two bites.  Most of the time I eat healthy but you can't deny yourself all the time.  I do dump (very mild symptoms) if I eat too may sweet things so that also makes me think twice before I take the next bite.  I would rather eat like I do now than eat like I did before the surgery and I definitely feel 100% better physically and mentally.  Good luck with your surgery.  Fran

Fran,

Thanks for the info!  That's not too bad...at least I can savor a bite of something tasty! 

I wi**** would have changed for me , but I KNOW I  can not  have it, and either drink a instant carnation shake or , try not to think of WENDYs   BACONATOR,  lol

MMMM...the baconator....

Hey, Wendy.  It's impossible to understand until after you are postop.  I know it sounds stupid, but it's true!! LOL.  For me, after about the first month (in which I was very depressed), food didn't matter too much anymore.  It gets easier and easier.  Actually too easy.  Right now, I'm able to eat whatever I want without dumping so I CAN have a bite or two of something naughty sometimes.  I wish I couldn't, but I can.  Anyway, food just becomes not as important.  Other things take the place of thinking about food so much after awhile.  Before you know it, you've dropped a ton of weight and if you're anything like me the other day, forget to eat until 5:30pm and go, "OH NO"!!!    Anyway, you'll do great.  I do crave things and sometimes I take a bite but mostly I don't.  I have other priorities now.  Anyway, good luck!!

Okay...you're post really helped me to understand a little better!  Everyone else did too, but I think I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!  Thanks for the encouraging words!

It's a weird thing that happens to us. First, we live for food, and love food and then... we live and food is a secondary thing.  It's just not the first thought anymore. It's a oh, yeah, thought.  Priorities change. Don't know how that happens, but it does. After everything we go through it just loses it's importance. At first you think about it alot, but it's more like what do I eat that will go down easy, and stay down. And you eat a tablespoon of it and  you're full and that's it. Done. Easy. Of course it takes awhile to figure that out, I know I would overeat because it didn't seem right that such a small amt. would work. Then I would be sorry and finally got smart enough to stop and know that it was enough.  I can still overeat if I don't pay attention.
But the way I feel now, compared to 90 lbs ago............. I won't change it for anything in the world! And I would do the whole thing again in a second, without any thought. It was the best thing I've ever done for myself.  I sleep better, I wake up feeling like I slept (refreshed, not still tired), I can do things that I couldn't before. Have more energy, and really do look better. It is a miracle.

Best of luck to you on your new life.

Thanks for your thoughts and support!  You really have said what most people on here say, " If I had to do the whole thing, I would do it again in a heartbeat",etc.  I have a horrible time sleeping, and I still have to complete my sleep study to find out if there is a reason why.  I am a hopeful person when it comes to life changing events, and I am hopeful that my insurance will approve my surgery! 
Thank you again!

No problemo!!  Let me know if you have any other questions.  I don't know a lot, but I can talk out my ass like no one I've met before, so I can be worth something...