Food Funeral or Not?????

Im getting ready for this liquid diet 2morrow and was wondering how many of yall thought  to yourself this is the last time I will eat the way I am used to and decided to have a food funeral and eat that food for the last time or whatever you wanted for the last time. I know in the future we will be able to eat most of the things we ate in the past jus not go crazy with it. But I will puttin in my head that this is the last time because those foods tasted so good that I was unable to jus have a lil of it. So I want try and eliminate them all together.

So my question to you is what did you do for your last day before u went on your liquid diet?


Kisha

I didn't do any type of food funeral.  I looked at that as one more self-destructive thing before my surgery.  This surgery allows you to eat a variety of foods and of course, make good choices that show that you are nurturing yourself.  You've had your food, so much so that it caused you (and all of us on OH) to become very overweight. 
Make good choices to show that you are going to nuture yourself and skip the food funeral.

No. You're giving the surgery as a gift to yourself, and it feels good to konw that you are ready for it and looking forward to the many positive changes in your life! Leave "food funeral" you in the dust and start your pre-op diet strong and ready to succeed! It's a huge mental boost, as well as physical. Good luck!

I vote for not having food funerals.  I think it is starting this process with  the wrong mind set.  The point is not to say good-by to food, but hello to good health.  Their is nothing sad about the sleeve, it should be a celebration of your amazing new healthy self.  Is the best way to celebrate this new future by eating things that are not healthy for you?  No, of course it is not.  I know many do this, but I think it is the wrong attitude.  I know, I am considered hard core.  :)  Just my opinion.

I think it's important to mourn the loss so you can move on.  I had a food funeral of sorts.  Your mental state plays a big role in your weight loss journey so do what you think you need to do...make a big deal out of the change if you want.  I did and it helped me.

Good luck on your journey!

Maybe what you are really thinking of is having a ceremony.  I am big on these.  Light a candle, write a list of all the things you want to leave behind while you are on your way to becoming healthier and then burn it.  It is important to understand that this is a big deal.  For many of us food is what we used as solace during bad times.  Food is not the enemy and yet many people talk about it like it is.  It's our relationship to it, how we've used it in the past.
One thing I keep doing is to tell my body how proud I am of it to have taken such a beating over the years and still it kept on doing it's job.  I thank it, and I tell it that I'm trying to make it easier for it to do it's job by eating better, losing weight, walking.
I say do what ever you need to do to get through this.  There is no right or wrong, we're all different!

I love the ceremony idea.  Wi****hough of that one.  Good point.

In the month or so prior to my surgery, I made sure to eat some of my favorite foods such as ice cream that I don't anticipate ever really eating again. Since I was still trying to lose weight during that time for my pre-op weight loss requirement, I spaced it out and had one food at a time. I found I didn't really enjoy them as much as I thought I would. I think the closer I got to surgery the more my mindset started changing to help me prepare for surgery. I didn't binge and I'm glad now looking back that I didn't.

I guess I'll be the "naughty" one here because I had a TON of food funerals and don't have ANY regret.  For ME I knew I would never eat that way again, I enjoyed eating in bulk (obviously 5'1" and 233 lbs), so it was my last "hurrah" before my life changed forever.  Maybe not the right attitude but we're all different, right?  Best of luck to you!

Had a "food funeral" too, but it wasn't about too much, or unhealthy choices.  It was about the crunchy, chewy, stringy foods I still stay away from 7 1/2 weeks post op:  a small lean steak, on the bone to gnaw on, a high fiber and wonderful steamed artichoke, some sweet potato slices oven fried (almost no oil) with the skins, and a big piece of bubble gum for dessert.  AND a big glass of water WITH it--- not half an hour later!
Glad I did it.  I used the ceremony to acknowledge my past and dedicate myself to my new and improved way of life.