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Since my surgery I have noticed I don't think about food very much, hardly ever. I do of course to eat and when I am eating I am thinking about my food then, but that is it! Then I MOVE ON! My life thank God does not revolve around food anymore. I have noticed since surgery that this whole damn world is so sick....... All these people who did not have the surgery ever talk about is friggin food and alcohol!!!! Good God what is wrong with them!! Did I really sound like that before/???? I want to bang my head when I sit around a bunch of people who have not had the surgery and there is no food or alcohol around in sight, because you can GUARANTEE that the damn conversations will turn to food & alcohol! I just sit there in shock of how obsessed the world is seriously. Am I the only one who thinks this?

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@@Lexuskela

Nice rant

Socializing for most people revolves around food or drinks. I show up at my friends homes for parties. I always bring healthy food. My friends know they are my test subjects.They usually like what I make. Some of us drink, I drink my crystal light. It all works out.

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Ok.... So let's say..... When I am at work..... Women sit and talk about food ... All day. One girl is on her New Years diet.... What does she do? Talks about how hungry she is all day and how she wants candy .... So I don't always mean parties.

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@@Lexuskela

The deprivation diets made me focus way to much on food. I talked and complained exactly like your example.It was my focus before surgery. Now food is just a way to fuel my body ..I move on.

What bothers me more is when I see the food commercials, pharmaceutical commercials that have a cure for anything, crazy diets commercials. Alcohol commercials that tell people that in order to have a good time you have to drink their brand. Drive down a street and count how many fast food restaurants do you see. Food cooking shows, Travel shows that highlight the best restaurants. Marketing to women to wear a certain style and size.

I now watch netflix..NO COMMERCIALS~

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I totally agree, we live in a world that sickly revolves around food and alcohol. That's my point. It's talked about, it's on tv, radio, tv, billboards, etc.... It's sick. I also dvr and fast forward or Netflix as well. I never drank before surgery so that was never a focus for me in the first place. Well I stopped drinking in my 20's anyway. But now I like you said eat for fuel, period. Ughhhh I am so glad I can come here and be understood. It's a very lonely feeling.

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I used to work out at the Y and all the ladies did there was talk about food, share recipes, and plan to go out to eat after working out! It drove me nuts.

Since surgery though, food doesn't phase me. People talking about it, watching cooking shows, being out at resturants and bars doesn't really phase me at all. I know what I can and can't eat and I have blinders to everything else.

I will say that I feel more food obsessed now than I was before. I have to constantly track my macros to get them right and swap in and out different foods to meet goals depending on the day. Before I just kind of did whatever. Weighing and measuring everything too makes me feel more food obsessed.

I just traded one master for a different one.

I mean people HAVE to eat to live, and most people enjoy it. Food is an enjoyable part of life. I don't think that it is sick that food and advertised so much. I just think the types of food that is advertised is the problem.

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I noticed the TV thing during the holidays, I don't have cable so no skipping the commercials but it was constant. I was on my pre-op diet and then had surgery the 21st it was insane. But I also noticed people do talk a lot about food. No I feel like it's all I get to think about but I know it will get to be the normal.

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