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|  Food Detox?!
Here's a thought that may help some of you out there having a hard time getting used to the limited eating you must do post-op, especially, immediately post-op.
Though just about all post ops who've been on the losing side for a while will say, they'd do it again in a heartbeat, they all still had it hard, and for you pre ops out there, you'll find yourself in this spot. Takes a while to be able to say, hooray.
Many of you will have a hard time, especially the first month out, when you are put on very limited diet, liquids then on to pureed, and real food just a little bit out of reach. You may be feeling miserable,and don't have any appetite, even have a hard time downing the liquids you need, or you may be feeling hungry, and angry that you can't eat. Your family around you being able to eat anything/everything could make you miserable, too, as well as all the TV CMs and all, expounding one food after another--and why, when you can't take it all, does it seem that everything on TV just seems to expound food, and only food?!
OK, so I've made you miserable...I'm sorry, but....
Look at it this way.
You've been abusing yourself with the unlimited amount of food you've eaten up to now, as well as with all the pops and sodas that have no nutritional values, so to speak, but assults your taste buds none-the-less.
You've given yourself the chance to pick up on good eating habits, but it doesn't come easy. The surgeon's knife will not cut out that desire for all the bad food you've been consuming up to now, and of course, you do know it. But, as they say, easier said than done.
Well, your taste buds have been badly assulted for a long time, badly misused, and overdosed with "bad" taste. So, while you are on liquids only, you are detoxing your taste buds of all the bad tastes that you've overdosed on. Cleaning up your taste buds, so they can register more delicate and finer taste than you have bombarded them with, up till now. With the next pureed stage, you are slowly training your taste buds to register the actual taste of the individual food. Train your taste buds to appreciate the natural taste of what you eat. Don't search for the taste that you were used to, doused with fat, doused with sugar, doused with everything bad. Seek the taste of the food that it was endowed with by nature, before we humans meddled with it. When you learn to taste, really taste the food you eat, it will be easier for you to keep on track with eating food good for you when you move on to real foods.
Of course, you'll get that craving--don't beat yourself up for it, your brains are still remembering them, be happy that you have a good memory-- but you will have to learn to be satisfied with a bite or two--at most three. As you learn to appreciate the fine taste of good food, you'll find only a bite or two will be enough to sate your memory.
I hope my speech will help you get through that tough first month.
May everyone's journey go well!
(((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
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So long as you are putting your best foot forward, then, 
I also was realizing how much eating time I was putting into my evenings. Wow.....
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