Social life after sleeve

[JupiterinVirgo 846]

I'm from a big Italian family and to socialize means to eat. What helped me was shifting my focus from the food to the people I was there to be with. And even on the occasions in which I have fallen off the wagon, damage was minimize it on account of my beautiful little sleeve. The first year post up almost doesn't feel like real life for a lot of people. But it is. This is the rest of our lives. We need to be able to be around food without letting it own and control us. For me, focusing on how grateful I was to be with my family even when we were all out eating out a big Italian restaurant maybe not miss gorging myself at all. In fact, I love just having a bite or two of a few different things. Lord knows that since I've had the sleeve I don't do much cooking because it just doesn't pay to cook a complete meal for myself alone. I would have to eat it every day for the entire week. And I never do that-it ends up in the garbage! Enjoy your loved ones. Let food just be the punctuation mark not the star of the show.

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