Every single night since I started the preop diet until now postoperative, I dream about food! They're pleasant dreams! I regularly read a blog written by a woman who was banded a couple of years ago and she wrote about this in one of her posts as well. She said that she had read that drug addicts and alcoholics do this same thing, dream about using, while going through detox. It's just amazing to me that food has such control over my life! I've always thought that I had an addictive personality and my addiction was food. My grandfather was an alcoholic nearly his entire life. Most of the people in his family are overweight. This includes my mom and my aunt along with myself. I truly feel like addiction is a hereditary disease. Does anybody else feel like that? The bad part is there is no getting away from food--- it's ALWAYS there and you HAVE to have it in order to sustain life! I just pray that with the band I'm going to be able to finally develop a healthy relationship.

Overall, I'm feeling really good. I was banded 5 days ago. I stayed at the hospital overnight. I haven't been out of the house yet and I'm thinking it would do me a world of good to actually go someplace. I thought about going to the movies but don't think I'm ready to deal with the smell of popcorn just yet! I don't go back to work until January 28th so I've still got time off before truly getting back into a routine. I'm thankful for that because I'm still getting tired pretty easily. I don't see my surgeon until the 30th so I won't be starting mushies until after that but as you can probably guess I'm really EXCITED about the next phase! Hope everyone is doing well!