Today I had a chat with a friend whose daughter suffers from anorexia...
She and I were talking about what it is like to obsess about food all the time.
She told me that her daughter thinks about food 2000 x a day, and that a friend who had WLS told her that she had changed from thinking about food 2000 x a day to only about 500 x a day.
That's when I realized that somehow, I'm not really sure how, I'm not that kind of person anymore.
I used to think about how fat I was, when I was a young woman, probably once every 6 seconds all day every day. Finally, thank god, I outgrew it.
Then, for a long time, I did think about food all the time... should I eat, shouldn't I, what should I eat? Can I get to the store? Can I buy candy? Will I have time to eat it...
But, now I realize that I'm really not dealing with that right now. I think about food, like what am I going to prepare, and do I have to go to the store... but not that constant chatter that made me feel like I always had a devil on my shoulder.
I'm VERY THANKFUL for that.