What does the smell of food do to you now?

I'm worried that after one whiff of something I'll go back to craving it. Can someone address how smells affects you and if you still crave certain foods??? As well, any PMS cravings? Thanks.

 Well honestly my neighbor and his partner are cooking chicken and some kind of carby rice thing from the smell, and I 'm sure that if I wanted to I could over for dinner, but  I just can't.

There are days I feel like I am pregnant again.  My sense of smell has heightened since surgery and there are days I start to cook dinner and by the time it is cooked it isn't even appealing to me.  The other day I was opening a package with chicken in it and I could smell the raw chicken and after that I couldn't even eat the chicken after I cooked it.  ha ha 

For me, food still smells incredible, the same as before surgery.  What changed is my ability to turn things down.  Bread was the worst, I loved bread, I guess I still do even thought I have not had any in 3 months.  Pre op I just could not turn things down for whatever reason, now I can.  

It is just something I have not been able to put into words.  I guess it is how skinny people have always felt, they love food it looks and smells good, but they can turn it down and not get obsessed about it.  

Pre op, if there was bread with butter on the table at a restaurant and I tried to turn it down I would just stare at it, or think mean thoughts about the people who were eating it.  I just could not take my mind off of it.  I would even get home and think "man I wish I could have had that bread" It was crazy obsession.  Now, I see it and think, "yum, wish I could have some" then turn away from it and forget it was there.  I like that, I think it is pretty cool! 

That's encouraging. I can barely fathom that right now. This whole thing is a lot to take in! Thank you.

Like one of the other posters said, my sense of smell is extremely sensitive after surgery and many food smells are really unappetizing to me.  However, sometimes food smells good and I want to eat it, but thankfully the surgery supresses my hunger hormones, so I have a little more control over my eating habits.

omg right after surgery my sense of smell was freaky! it was sooo annoying..out of all the normal things that was happening not finding the right protien i could tolerate, the sleeping problem, the omg why did i go and do this to myself ...etc etc etc...the smell thing was the worst!!!!!!!!! i had mutant smell ...that particular nastly little side effect was just f&*%en annoying at hell ..but it didnt last too long thank god :)

I agree with Lisa.  Food still smells good.  But I can resist.  Actually, it's more like I am just not that interested any more.  I think this is a good thing for me.  I can have 3 crackers not 30,  chips, bread, potatoes don't appeal to me where they use to.

The smell of food has made me nauseated since day 1.  I feel pregnant again.  I'm 12 weeks out and I still can't take much of it.

My smell/taste buds DRASTICALLY changed post op.  I am 20 months out, and my family and I were talking about that last night at dinner.  Early post op, the smell of many foods nauseated me.  That did not last too terribly long.  I did not start craving food once my sense of smell returned to normal.  The one thing that has changed, permanently it seems, is my tolerance for hot food.  My family has always eaten a lot of hot spicy food.  We grow our own peppers.  But since having my RNY, I can't seem to season my food hot enough while cooking it without it being too hot for my family.  I honestly do not taste hot, highly seasoned food like I use to.  We were eating hot food last night, and my daughter and husband kept commenting how hot it was.  I sincerely, sincerely tasted not too much hot.  We wondered how this happens...does it have something to do with the nerves being cut during surgery.  I can't explain it.  I don't have PMS, so I can't comment on that.