I once asked my dentist if he could remove my sweet tooth!

[danithomas 75]

I mean if he was already in the extracting my wisdom teeth then there had to be a way to take out that darn sweet tooth! Lol

So I am the person that silently throws darts at the person in the room that says "I have never been big on sweets"

I'm always like "Dude, did your mother make you suck on lines with your Similac?"

Well I'm trying to cut back and off of sweets. My pre-opp appointment is next Monday so I'm sure I'm going to be told when my "new normal" eating should begin.

I just don't want to shock my system but slowly ease into not eating sweets ever again in life.

But today I am struggling and it's the first day that I'm starting. Yeah Breakfast was a bust. IHOP French toast.

lunch was Soup and dinner is stew but I really want to go to 7 Eleven and grab a "Big Kat" kit kat bar!!!

What can you guys tell me on how to deal with this? How bad can dumping be? I mean I've been dumping my whole life is it nothing like what they talk about?

Any vets out there?

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[James Marusek 5,244]

Dumping is bad. You periodically head to the restroom to vomit over a 4 hour time period. You cannot sleep.

After RNY gastric bypass surgery the part of your stomach that process fat and sugars has been cut away. So if you consume those foods it can lead to dumping. After about a year, your intestines will figure out something is wrong and pick up the slack by learning how to process these foods. Therefore you can introduce them back into your diet again.

Having a sweet tooth is not good. I had one and as a result I developed diabetes. My surgery placed that disease into remission. And as a result, I generally do not consume sugar. I rely on synthetic sweeteners such as splenda and sugar alcohols and no calorie natural sugars like stevia. There are more and more products showing up on the grocery store shelves today that use these sugars. And they can satisfy your sweet tooth without gaining the weight or becoming diabetic.