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I am really struggling with head hunger. I get frustrated when I can only eat two bites of something, especially when it's delicious, lol! Plus I feel like I need the calories so I'm determined to get the food in by the end of the night. How do you manage this??

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Can I ask how far out you are from surgery?

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You are not alone, I've come across a simple technique that is working for me, since my whole system is still adopting to the new life I'm having I choose to let my sleeve do the work for now, I can't medically explain it, but basically whether I take 3 bites or 10, my toy sea to say through feeling that it's full, so I stop, my mind is still catching up, and takes me back to a not so good place, "finish your food"

"Your wasteful" and " you don't like my cooking?", I only kept going once since my sleeve and ended up throwing it up, I've also came to the decision to have 1 cheat day per month, but if I go with my wife to a restaurant and I like her dessert because it looks delicious, my safety plan is to not order it and instead get a taste of my wife's, and not every time either, we are creatures of habit so the whole "eat to live, don't live to eat" is hard to stomach ( pardon the pun), but if even before we start to eat we can rationalize, it can be an easy pleasant experience, if I have an 8oz sirloin I need to be content that no matter how delicious it is, if I full after 4 or 5 bites I can put it aside, we are programmed early on to eat by what things taste like to us and how tasty they are, but if you look around the world some of the healthiest cultures that have long life spans only eat what they need to eat, don't torture yourself though, I've learned to cook for myself and I've made some awesome meals, try buying tools to help you cook

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I'm 3 weeks out. I cook all the time and love what I cook,I just want to be able to eat it.

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You are eating it, your mind just has to catch up, I say me as to not offend anyone, but when I think about the amounts of food I used to eat compared to today, it still seems surreal, but because of many things I've experienced and seen since the surgery I believe it's right, my wife ISO complete opposite and has always been healthy and active, and Even before all this she used to say to me, " your portions should be the size of your fist" and it's true, your eating will get better just don't ever forget what got us to this point

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I'm fighting the same psychological battle. I have no answers just know you aren't alone.

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