Well, it's not a serious one, but it sure seems weird!!! As many of you know, I've been having a lot of trouble eating. It's resolving [thank goodness!], but still not 100%.
And what have I been doing???? I've become a bit too interested in online restaurant menus!!!! Oh - that might be good to eat. or Maybe that would stay down. And that would last me 4 meals at least.
I'm not ordering. not going out, just looking. Maybe I'm trying to tempt my appetite, or inspire myself to make something good to eat [I've been taking the view that if it's not going to stay down, why bother making something really good and wasting all that time and ingredients cost].
I'll be glad when this ulcer is completely healed!!!!!
yeah - that's pretty much it. the reason i'm considering it an issue is that it doesn't quite fit in with my 'no more food obsession' goals, especially since I've been throwing up just about everything i put in my mouth [it's the ulcer]
but putting it that way - trolling menus online - makes it sound like not such a big deal!
I haven't had weight loss surgery but I do have a similar problem, so I can understand it. I'm always looking at restaurant menus online when I don't necessarily often go to them. I check out the calories for the food they have and figure out which is most filling and satisfying. I don't know why I do it but I like doing it.
I tend to read cookbooks. I especially like recipes for delicious looking baked goods, even though I'll never make them. It's kind of a guilty pleasure!
If you were an ex-smoker, and you were looking through some kind of cigarette catalogue... do you think it'd be a concern?
I think it really depends where your head is at. If you're thinking about how much you'd like to eat those things, maybe it's not such a good idea, because it could easily turn into an obsession. But I'm sure there are other reasons, and other feelings you could get from browsing menus, so maybe there's no problem at all.
jiffypop I didn't mean to make "light" of your concern
if you feel it is a problem for you, then it is a problem for you
When you said you wanted to stop obsessing about food, it makes more sense to me. I will support you in whatever you decide. And if you decide something today and want to change it later, that is okay too. This is your journey. Isn't that awesome??
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I have not had weight loss surgery but I do tend to have food obsessions...I've just never thought of them that way. I love to read recipies and sometimes cut them from magazines, but rarely make them because I have a DH who is a picky eater.
Jiffypop, maybe you have your food obsessions under control. You can read a menu, look at pictures of food but now you know how to control your eating and like they say "it doesn't cost anything to look!" If you are not ordering or going out to eat at these restaurants, I wouldn't worry about it. Thinking about how many meals you could get from that meal indicates that you understand the need for portion control, whereas that might not have been something you would do in the past.
I agree with Cathydoe, that it is only a problem if you see it as a problem.
I like to look at recipes and try to figure out ways to make them healthier while still maintaining the "yumminess"! I don't really see anything wrong with this personally.
Great insights, everyone [especially the food porn!]. I hadn't thought about the fact that I'm so very aware of portion control, and that's very very helpful. Yesterday's routine check up with the gastro really focused me on this issue. Bottom line, every time I put something in my mouth these days, it's either going to ruin my day by preventing me from eating or drinking anything for hours [along with vomiting], or it'll be ok. And I don't know from minute to minute what's going to happen.
and I get very hungry and thirsty sometimes.
Maybe instead of checking out menus I should keep a food diary to get a grip on what's working and what's not. Right now, NO BREADSTICKS, and toast [usually reliable] is a crapshoot. cottage cheese and regular cheeses MIGHT work, yogurt generally does. Veggies are tough - if it has a skin or seeds it's not a good idea regardless of whether it's cooked or raw. fruit is a crapshoot, and i'm craving citrus. canned fruit seems to work best [not my favorite, but a girl's gotta eat something!]. meat is difficult. soup, rice, pasta are crapshoots. Fish seems to be OK. I'm going to try it again today or tomorrow [a nice piece of alaskan cod].
thanks for letting me ramble. Breakfast isn't going all that well at the moment - and i'd rather be drinking something, but am instead trying to eat a slice of whole grain toast with cheese.
Sorry jiffypop that food is doing what it is doing to you. Is this linked to your surgery? Or what has the doctor told you. Can it be fixed? Saying a prayer for you.
thanks, Cathy. i've posted it somewhere around here. but here's the deal: i have a 'whomping big ulcer' according to the gastro [and those were the first words i heard coming out of sedation from the endoscopy!]. It's at the anastomosis [where they joined the remains of my stomach to the duodenum]. The bottom line is that the swelling and scar tissue have created a stricture - they were surprised I was keeping down liquids. They've stretched it a couple of times, but also warned that this was going to take several months to heal.
another stretch is scheduled for mid-February. Things are better, but we're not quite there yet.
Is it related to the surgery? not sure. I know that i was throwing up for a good 2 years probably because of a bad gall bladder, but since i was losing weight, the docs didn't view it as serious or warranting investigation.
and no matter how many times i pointed this out to them, along with the effect on my electrolytes and on and on and on, they did nothing.
Thank you for sharing Jiffypop. So frustrating when doctors don't listen!! I actually had a doctor call me up and apologize for not listening...because I was right and she didn't listen!
This reminds me of the days when I thought loosing weight was the answer to EVERYTHING! And life would be perfect. Ah, we know that is a fallacy!
) So what, I browse cooking blogs just for fun too. But I don’t just look at the pictures, I actually see myself cooking it and thinking of ways to make the recipe better, tastier. But this isn’t something I’ve picked recently, I’ve been doing this for years and it kinda relaxes me so why the **** not?!
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) So what, I browse cooking blogs just for fun too. But I don’t just look at the pictures, I actually see myself cooking it and thinking of ways to make the recipe better, tastier. But this isn’t something I’ve picked recently, I’ve been doing this for years and it kinda relaxes me so why the **** not?!
