Guest guest Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 At 11:01 AM 1/27/03 -0800, judy davison wrote: >I love to cook too. I didn't discover this new joy >until after surgery. I think early postop I replaced >food with FoodTV. It's not the food anymore, just >like you said. FOr me it's the shopping for >ingredients and the preparation. > >===== >judy in austin During the post op period I watched FoodTV just about all of the time that I was awake. It was sort of compulsive; I just couldn't stop! I've see other folks mention the same thing and I was relieved that I wasn't the only one. I had a LOT of trouble with nausea for the first several months, triggered by virtual everything except FoodTV: food smells, attempting to eat, sips of water, fast food commercials. There was one Hardee's commercial that aired frequently during my post period that consistently caused immediate heaving. I told myself that watching FoodTV was a good way to desensitize myself so that I could rejoin the world because I had to go back to work eventually! Amy RNY 12/7/00 Dr. Stoner in Davenport, IA 22/24 to 8/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ nosophist1@... or amy@... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 >There was one Hardee's > commercial that aired frequently during my post period that consistently > caused immediate heaving. I told myself that watching FoodTV was a good way > to desensitize myself so that I could rejoin the world because I had to go > back to work eventually! With me it was watching people eat. I was maybe 2 months post-op when I was sitting at a red light in front of a fast-food place, and a guy pulled out from their drive-thru, pulled up next to me at the light, and he was devouring this HUGE triple-size burger. I immediately thought " Oh my god, he's going to be so sick! " Then I realized that it was ME who would be sick eating that way! LOL! For the first 6-10 months post-op I was so depressed about all the things I couldn't eat, that I virtually stopped cooking or even going into the kitchen. My poor kids didn't get a decent meal for the longest time. Gradually I got my love of cooking back, and now we eat a lot more healthy, home-made foods than we did even before I had my surgery. And I have more cookbooks now than I did when I could eat everything in sight. I adapt them to my needs, and go from there. Always looking for something new to try, and I've eaten a world of veggies I never tried back when I lived on ice cream and junk food. ~~Lyn G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 During my post-op recovery, I watched a lot of food TV... I called it my " food porn " . Slobbering over stuff I couldn't/shouldn't have and wouldn't want anyway if it was right in front of me, free for the taking. ROFL Ziobro Open RNY 09/17/01 Plastics 07/22/02 310/127/130 Re: FoodTV during post op I love the Food Network , But it still makes me hungry to watch it Tara Amy Towery nosophist1@...> wrote:At 11:01 AM 1/27/03 -0800, judy davison wrote: >I love to cook too. I didn't discover this new joy >until after surgery. I think early postop I replaced >food with FoodTV. It's not the food anymore, just >like you said. FOr me it's the shopping for >ingredients and the preparation. > >===== >judy in austin During the post op period I watched FoodTV just about all of the time that I was awake. It was sort of compulsive; I just couldn't stop! I've see other folks mention the same thing and I was relieved that I wasn't the only one. I had a LOT of trouble with nausea for the first several months, triggered by virtual everything except FoodTV: food smells, attempting to eat, sips of water, fast food commercials. There was one Hardee's commercial that aired frequently during my post period that consistently caused immediate heaving. I told myself that watching FoodTV was a good way to desensitize myself so that I could rejoin the world because I had to go back to work eventually! Amy RNY 12/7/00 Dr. Stoner in Davenport, IA 22/24 to 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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