Relationship with food already changing

[ShanIAmVA 65]

I find this very strange.

Ever since my surgery date was scheduled, my relationship with food has totally changed. Before I made the decision to get a sleeve done, I felt hopeless and depressed about my weight. In a totally counterproductive way, I soothed those feelings by overeating. For years I have done the "I'll start tomorrow, next week, next month" dance and those tomorrow's, week's and month's never came. But now that I have an actual surgery date, my hope has been restored and my circumstantial depression is evaporating. With that, I find that my unquenching desire to eat is evaporating, too. Don't get me wrong, I am still eating things that are not good for me but it is not constant and I don't find myself anxious to get hungry again so I can gorge. If that makes any sense at all.

I hope this feeling continues as it will make my 2 weeks pre-op diet go a little more smoothly. (Although I am thinking of starting at 3 weeks out to allow myself a week to adjust - i.e. make mistakes)

No need for replies. I'm just putting virtual pen to paper right now.

For those who read this, thanks!

[Tim C 336]

2 hours ago, ShanIAmVA said:

I find this very strange.

Ever since my surgery date was scheduled, my relationship with food has totally changed. Before I made the decision to get a sleeve done, I felt hopeless and depressed about my weight. In a totally counterproductive way, I soothed those feelings by overeating. For years I have done the "I'll start tomorrow, next week, next month" dance and those tomorrow's, week's and month's never came. But now that I have an actual surgery date, my hope has been restored and my circumstantial depression is evaporating. With that, I find that my unquenching desire to eat is evaporating, too. Don't get me wrong, I am still eating things that are not good for me but it is not constant and I don't find myself anxious to get hungry again so I can gorge. If that makes any sense at all.

I hope this feeling continues as it will make my 2 weeks pre-op diet go a little more smoothly. (Although I am thinking of starting at 3 weeks out to allow myself a week to adjust - i.e. make mistakes)

No need for replies. I'm just putting virtual pen to paper right now.

For those who read this, thanks!

YOU GO GIRL!!!

[blackcatsandbaddecisions 852]

I made a lot of changes about 4 months pre-op and I’m grateful every day that I did. I also kind of felt like having an upcoming surgery made things have a deadline so it helped me focus and not put things off indefinitely.

If you read through some threads here you’ll see the two week diet and the post op period are so rough for many people who make no lifestyle changes prior to that. If you made changes in the months prior then it’s one less huge lifestyle adjustment at the time of surgery.

It sounds like you’re on the right track!

[njlimmer 344]

2 hours ago, blackcatsandbaddecisions said:

I made a lot of changes about 4 months pre-op and I’m grateful every day that I did. I also kind of felt like having an upcoming surgery made things have a deadline so it helped me focus and not put things off indefinitely.

If you read through some threads here you’ll see the two week diet and the post op period are so rough for many people who make no lifestyle changes prior to that. If you made changes in the months prior then it’s one less huge lifestyle adjustment at the time of surgery.

It sounds like you’re on the right track!

I agree. I made some small but consistent changes for months before surgery, and I thought the pre-op was pretty easy. Getting in the right mindset is SO important.

[lizonaplane 1,613]

As soon as I made the decision to go the surgery route and I researched the changes needed for WLS to succeed, I started incorporating the post-surgery eating habits into my life. The first major change I made was to stop drinking diet soda. Honestly, that one thing prevented me from going down the surgery path last time - I guess I wasn't ready before! And it was a lot easier than I expected.

The other changes were in some ways easier than expected too, at least most of the time, but this week has been really rough since I've had to take more of a medication that increases hunger, and I'm also having difficulty sleeping, which also increases hunger. I just want to eat constantly and yesterday I started crying because I was just so damn hungry.

Also, the fact that the surgery program can't even tell me what month I'm going to be able to get my surgery done due to COVID backlogs means I'm just tired of my life being on hold... I just feel drained this week.