still obcessed with food

After the crying and fussing and whining this past week about my food plan and how strict it is, I did finally find a reasonable solution to my issue.  With a really protein heavy breakfast, I can have 2oz of protein and some veggies for my other two meals.  Then I don't have to struggle to get in 4oz of protein at each meal and I can have some veggies. 

But I'm totally obcessed about what I can have at 3 months.  I WANT squash and lettuce so bad I can hardly stand it.  My friend who rides with me to class twice a week asked to stop at Sonic the other night.  She got a double cheese burger.  That didn't bother me.  The greasy smell sort of made me nauceous BUT I could smell the lettuce on the burger and that was what I wanted. 

Maybe when I get to 3 months and am released to eat pretty much any veggies I want, I'll be less torn up about them.  My birthday is in a couple weeks and my parents are taking me to Red Lobster.  I'm SOOO looking forward to those grilled shrimp.  I really wish I could have some of the broccili with them. 

I didn't obcess about food before surgery.  I just ate what I wanted when I wanted.  I'd quit dieting years ago.  I thought about it but nothing like I do now. 

Any body else feel this way?  How did you get through it? 

I'm almost two months out and I have had acorn squash.  I divided it into 4 meals.  I've also had a little bit of salad.  I had no problem with either.  I just took it slow and easy and chewed, chewed, chewed.  God Luck!

well cooked veggies have been on my plan since the soft food phase.  I could also have lettuce.
I have been on full veggies raw and cooked for the past 2 months.  Some raw veggies don't work as good as others.  It is a learning curve.

I was not getting in enough veggies/fruits so my NUT told me to slightly cut back my protein to make room for the fruits and veggies.  On average I get in 70-75gm of protein, so she said I have room to eat other things.


Sarah

Well, my husband and I both handle it differently. When he was 2-4 months out his favorite past time was food porn. That's right, food network 24/7. I didnt understand this. Seemed a bit like torture to me but he said that looking at all that food and not being able to eat anything was training him for when he could eat some of it but wants to choose not to. For me I continue to obsess about food. What I can have, what I cant have, how to creatively prepare what I can have, it really drives me quite crazy! but  for me it's not veggies that I crave. I want a big ole hamburger. About 2 weeks before my surgery hubbs and I went to Vegas for our birthdays and I had the chance (or curse) to taste the most amazing cheeseburger I had ever had and ever since surgery I have been dreaming of this cheeseburger like it's Bradly Cooper! At least you will soon be able to eat your veggies soon :)

I'll just be honest and say that I am obsessed with food 24-7. It's hard NOT to be when it is all around us, everywhere. Plus, we need food to survive and there are so many different things to eat, ways to prepare it, etc. The smells, the pictures in magazines, it all drives me crazy. I'm 11 days out and this is like the HARDEST things I've ever done. Every time I see something or hear about something I want to eat, I add it to the ongoing list in my brain (of things I want to eat again, eventually).

The only thing that gets me through this is knowing I will get VERY sick if I eat something too soon before my body is ready for it. 

Well, I would have to say, yay, about being obsessed at least with good things, broccoli and squash and lettuce, is way better than chips and ice cream and cheese burgers, isn't it? And secondly, I have to say at a month out, I want a salad so bad I can barely function!! I want a spinach salad with nuts and fruit on it or a spicy tangy chinese chicken salad or a trip to fresh choice and a huge pile of lovely lettuce and spinach and beets and garbanzos and mushrooms and shredded carrots and sunflower seeds and hard boiled egg, and a little Ranch dressing, that'll turn pink from my favorite, beets! So, you are not alone, my friend, you are NOT alone. Meet ya at the salad bar!

I should've also mentioned, my NUT told me steamed til they are mush veggies are ok, brocc, cauli, zuch, carrots just be careful to make sure they are very soft, and don't eat veggies and not get your protein in... they are to be eaten only after you get your daily quota of protein in... says my NUT.