I am cooking Thanksgiving dinner!

[alyce20 82]

I am very excited ... Three months post op... Down 59 pounds... Feel terrific! For some strange reason I am loving cooking more than ever! I think because I feel better .. Not sluggish ! So I am cooking for 10 people. I did all my baking yesterday and not even thinking I licked the spoon .. Omg I have not had any sugar in several months... It was almond joy cookie batter... The spoon just went to mouth... Like I had a brain freeze...I am mad at myself ...btw I made.. Fudge..magic bars .. Cinnamon pecans... chocolate chip cookies... And did not taste anything . I ordered the pies from Whole foods! Has this happened to anyone else where it is just automatic to the mouth?

[Dr-Patient 830]

I can relate. My VSG was Dec. 4, 2013. On Dec. 19th--two weeks post-op--I felt like I wanted to cook a lot of food. I did so: I baked chickens; wild rice; sweet potatoes; string beans; squash casserole; sweet potato pies; lemon cake; something else (can't remember) and I took it to the two men who helped me with my surgery. The guy who took me to/from surgery; and the other guy who housed me for the first 3 days post-op and brought me home.

I didn't eat any of that stuff except for two swallows of the sweet potatoes that I smashed [allowed 'soft' foods].

I just wanted to COOK again; and I still can cook now, so I didn't lose that pleasure of cooking and watching others devour my food. That was a 'fear' of mine--that I "wouldn't be able to cook a lot of food again." Wasted energy. I can still cook for others, and now, just portion for myself.

Congrats on your success, and enjoy cooking!

[CheleLynn45 615]

I find there are a lot of things we did without much thought when it comes to food. One example I have is during my second week post op I was making chicken Alfredo for my husband, daughter and mom. I never time my noodles when I cook I always just stirred them until they felt done and then tasted them to make sure they were done the way we like the. So I'm cooking the noodles and out of habit go to try them and stop and realize.....I can't eat this?? So I had to call my daughter in to taste them for me. Once they were done I put them in a strainer to rinse them. Then I found myself reaching to grab one or two like I would and again stopped. It was so weird how out of habit I was doing things. Then I was making the sauce not from scratch but I doctor it up a bit and once again could not taste it to see how it was.

Well I survived cooking that meal without eating anything but it really made me think about how I used to do things.

I am now 4 weeks post op and have been cooking for my husband and daughter almost nightly. I find myself really enjoying cooking even though I cannot eat the meals yet.

Tomorrow I am making a bbq chicken pizza recipe where the chicken is actually the crust and am very excited to try it, it looks so yummy and I posted it on here in one of these forums and then two people that had tried it said it was really good. So this will be the first meal I cook since surgery we all can eat.