Did surgery change your food preferences?

[CharlotteKat 90]

It's been 3 years since my gastric bypass. There has been one thing that has been on my mind and I'd like some feedback. Prior to surgery, I LOVED olives. I always had them in the house and often made olive tapenade. Since my bypass, I have zero desire to eat them. I bought a jar recently and ate just one olive. It just didn't taste good to me anymore. I suspect that the surgery changed my food preferences.

Has anyone else found themselves disinterested in their old favorite foods after surgery?

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

Not me. Still like them all. I still love spicy, but it burns all the way down due to reflux. So, I've had to transition to milder foods.

[ChaosUnlimited 559]

I have found that I can eat (and even like) some foods that I hated before surgery, such as cottage cheese, but I haven't really found that I dislike anything that I used to like.

Like Orchids & Dragons, I love spicy foods, but I have to be careful about eating them now because I have gotten reflux from them since surgery, especially if I eat them in the late afternoon, evening hours.

[GreenTealael 25,430]

No, I had to actively give things up to prepare for surgery ( cane sugar, agave Syrup, gave up honey 1 month post op, popcorn, seltzer)

However there are things I eat more of than ever before and its not because its all I can have, I just gravitate to it.

Did you get a get batch of olives somewhere along your journey? Or something went awry involving olives?

Hear me out... Pregnant with my first child I couldn't open the pickle jar for hrs (home alone, tired,sick,crying) husband (ex) comes in 6 hrs later and opens it no problem. I refused them & haven't touched pickles in 15 yrs. Can't stand the smell of them. food aversion , mild but still.

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

No, I had to actively give things up to prepare for surgery ( cane sugar, agave Syrup, gave up honey 1 month post op, popcorn, seltzer)

However there are things I eat more of than ever before and its not because its all I can have, I just gravitate to it.

Did you get a get batch of olives somewhere along your journey? Or something went awry involving olives?

Hear me out... Pregnant with my first child I couldn't open the pickle jar for hrs (home alone, tired,sick,crying) husband (ex) comes in 6 hrs later and opens it no problem. I refused them & haven't touched pickles in 15 yrs. Can't stand the smell of them. food aversion , mild but still.

Those mean, evil picles picking on a poor, pregnant girl! Serves them right!

[GreenTealael 25,430]

3 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Those mean, evil pickles picking on a poor, pregnant girl! Serves them right!

Thank you, 😖 I needed someone to side with me in a world that believes pickles are innocent...

[Orchids&Dragons 9,047]

18 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Thank you, 😖 I needed someone to side with me in a world that believes pickles are innocent...

The only innocents are the sweet, little gherkins. The rest are monsters!