Confessions of a Serial Blueberry Palpate-or

October 11, 2003

Has anyone out there (or am I the only looneytune) discovered that post WLS

they have taken on strange/different/newly discovered food rituals? I am not

just talking about food TASTES, which I think many of us have noticed (things

we used to like eating we no longer do, vice verse etc.) I am talking about

rituals surrounding our food choices and how we eat. Okay here's my

example (alert the mental health medics): before WLS, I hated blueberries.

Hated them so much I wanted to smack Deneuve (remember her old perfume

commercial where she looked fetchingly into the camera and said " I LOVE

BLUEBERRIES! " ) So, for some reason post WLS I absolutely adore blueberries.

You

might say I am addicted to blueberries. It's a very rare day I don't have

a pile. Now that's not particularly strange, but what IS strange is that I

will ONLY eat them IF they are a certain consistency (they MUST be rock-hard)

and they MUST be ice cold (I will put them in the freezer for about 15 minutes

to get them to the " right " temperature.) So in order to guarantee that I

get ONLY the hard berries, cause the soft ones make me gag, I have to stand at

the sink/counter/my-cage (LMAO!) and individually (I am NOT kidding here!) paw

over each and every g-ddamn one! Only THEN can they be temperature set for

my eating pleasure. And my little buddy in this endeavor, my pug Chloe,

sits at my heels and barks and screams for my soft lukewarm rejects, so I can't

even indulge my newfound " quirkiness " in solitary secret. This morning, as

I was locked into my daily blueberry ritual, and Chloe was yelping loudly

behind me like all mad dogs do, it struck me just how nutso this whole thing

was,

but it is a neurotic exercise I am absolutely unwilling and UNABLE to give up!

Actually, in all seriousness, I think it is probably " healthy " that I not

automatically treat myself like a veritable garbage can anymore, eating almost

anything in any form, and have instead started to become PARTICULAR in my food

choices etc. It's not something that I have instituted deliberately but has

seemed to evolve rather " naturally. " I've become similarly " ritualized "

with a few other things, that I won't bore everyone in relating. Plus I don't

want to give the psychiatrists and more ammo! ROFL!

So is it just me, or what?

Good morning everyone!

Lucille

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