Re: Changing Eating Habits

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In a message dated 7/10/00 6:26:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

MiniGastricBypass (AT) egroups (DOT) com writes:

> And the good part is that you *don't* have a choice about

> dealing with it. You will learn to change your eating habits.

> You *will* change, even if it's kicking and screaming like me.

>

I like how you put this, it is exactly like that way for me. Before surgery,

I couldn't hold on to the resolve to get through the tough spots. No matter

how hard I tried. Even though the consequence of eating was tremendous (no

pun intended!). Now, the consequence is VERY apparent and immediate. I get

sick or feel awful. I don't think I really even try to overeat anymore, it

is just that some things still don't sit very well. I feel free to try

anything, but know that sometimes I will pay for it! That keeps me keeping

on. I LOVE that part of the surgery. The consequence is dramatic so I keep

doing what I need to do, because I have to! My eating habits AND my head are

changing. Yesterday, I HAD to have a cucumber. Ate two huge ones the same

day. Nothing tasted any better to me. How is that for weird! WOW! I don't

feel deprived and I love the freedom that the surgery gives.

Safe journey,

MGB 03 MAY 00

Safely on the other side!!!!

Dr. Rutledge clos.net

Self-funded company plan administered by Interactive Medical

Denied on appeal as an excluded benefit

Self Pay

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t wrote:

> > And the good part is that you *don't* have a choice about

> > dealing with it. You will learn to change your eating habits.

> > You *will* change, even if it's kicking and screaming like me.

> >

wrote:

> I like how you put this, it is exactly like that way for me.

> Before surgery, I couldn't hold on to the resolve to get

> through the tough spots. No matter how hard I tried.

> Even though the consequence of eating was tremendous (no

> pun intended!). Now, the consequence is VERY apparent and

> immediate. I get sick or feel awful. I don't think I

> really even try to overeat anymore, it is just that

> some things still don't sit very well. I feel free to

> try anything, but know that sometimes I will pay for it!

> That keeps me keeping on. I LOVE that part of the surgery.

> The consequence is dramatic so I keep doing what I need

> to do, because I have to! My eating habits AND my

> head are changing. Yesterday, I HAD to have a cucumber.

> Ate two huge ones the same day. Nothing tasted any

> better to me. How is that for weird! WOW! I don't

> feel deprived and I love the freedom that the surgery gives.

>

> Safe journey,

>

>

> MGB 03 MAY 00

> Safely on the other side!!!!

> Dr. Rutledge clos.net

> Self-funded company plan administered by Interactive Medical

> Denied on appeal as an excluded benefit

> Self Pay

2 months ago, I would have thought craving a cucumber was

weird, but now I don't. I've craved *pickles* (and no,

I'm *not* pregnant!) often enough I've gone through a jar

of Vlassic dills in the past two weeks. Somebody else

wrote a few weeks ago about drinking pickle juice. Now,

at the time, I thought *that* was weird, but I don't now.

Like you, I've indulged each craving as it came up,

which has helped a lot in getting used to the new

eating habits. Once I try something, I don't usually

want it again because it doesn't have the zing it did

before. I don't feel deprived, just totally uninterested.

(But again, glad this works the way it does!)

I bought some prepared foods the other day and because

I've been keeping track of my food intake, I was *shocked*

that my food intake today, has already been 627 calories

for the day and the fat content is already 2-1/2 times

what I usually eat! (And as a consequence, I've been

riding the throne most of the morning, too . . .

Nothing like high fat to clean you out after this

surgery! Wheweee!!!!) I can definitely live

without these particular foods, I was just in the

mood for something easy that looked good. Well, so far

today, I've had half a chicken-broccoli hot pocket, half a

pimiento cheese sandwich, and half a baked potato with

sour cream and margarine -- and that was 627 calories

already and a ton of fat! The chicken hot pocket

was okay, but nothing to write home about, the pimiento

cheese sandwich felt like I ate a ball of wheat bread, and

the baked potato was pretty tasty, but not tasty enough

to be worth all the fat and calories. So I have more

foods to put on the " Yes, these are food, and if I have

to, I can eat them, " list (moved off the " rave faves " list).

I'm a *lot* pickier about what I eat these days. It

better be both *good* and *nutritious* -- it has one

shot to convince me it's worth eating and that's that.

And I *marvel* at the quantities. A HALF a hot pocket? I

could have wolfed down two whole ones of those, no problem,

before. A *half* a pimiento cheese sandwich? And no,

folks, you *don't* feel short-changed. HALF a baked

potato? Who eats like that besides anorexics?

And *each* of these was an entire meal by itself. I could

not have eaten any of them together. By the time I

was eating the last bits of one, I was *more* than

glad to stop eating them, too. I was *full* and I could

*tell* I was full (this is a change in itself, because

before, I never registered " full " or " hungry " much, I

just ate what I wanted and " full " never really entered

into the equation.) I actually wake up feeling *hungry,*

too -- another surprise. And it isn't a hunger that can

be ignored easily, either, like before.

I'm tickled about being such a small-portion eater and

a picky eater these days, too. I used to be a " clean the

plate " type. This is such a change!

Kind regards,