Made it through my first Christmas party tonight

Tonight I had to go with my daughter to her softball team party it was bring a finger food. How the crap do you figure out what to take knowing you are not going to get to eat ANYTHING!?  I decided not to cook anything which is what I would have done before. I ran into the store grabbed a meat and cheese tray.  Now on to the party...walk in the door and the smell of wonderfulness floods my senses. Start telling myself it would taste yucky, everyone else will be regretting everything they ate because they ate too much but you won't. 

I sit myself in the chair the farthest from the food. Everyone else starts eating and then the question aren't you going to eat anything?  I politely say no I had something to eat before I left the house (albeit 3 oz of broth) and I'm really working to make changes by not eating things I shouldnt. These people do not know that I've had surgery. But then I get compliments of well you can tell you've lost quite a bit. Yay!  It was the hardest thing even though I've not been hungry but I did it and beat the head hunger and sensory overload.  Of course knowing that there was no way anything would go down anyway didn't hurt either. 

We have to take one small victory at a time to develop new habits. This was a good start.

Wow, great job!  Every time you practice something like this it will get a bit easier. 

Well HO RaY for you!

What a good thing you did for yourself, Positive Self talk and breaking down our old ways with positive powerful words is the only way to beat

what we have believed for years and years about our eating, Clean your plate, We don't waste food in this house, you'll sit there til you eat

every last bite, no matter how long it takes!  remember all those, lovely reinforced words from our parents? 

Anyway, Way to Go Sissy Keep up the small but important steps forward

Lynne

Look at the party girl! Straight from the OR into the food fray! At the same point post-op, it was all I could do to take a shower. That was my big effort for the day. Glad to hear your recovery is going so well.

And you're right -- yakking something up in front of everyone is a strong deterrent to eating. 

psychoticparrot