For the third time in the last week I forgot to eat and at about 2:00 my body starts to let me know I am hungry.

This statement: “I forgot to eat” is one that I never, never understood before.  Until I had this surgery, it just never happened to me.   Anyone who suffers as I do with eating issues will know just what I am talking about.  I would hear people say this before and think, “ya right, freak! You are starving yourself!”  I just did not understand what it was like to not think about food ALL THE TIME.

So, this surgery, I believe, gave me the gift of a “normal” attitude toward food.  Believe me if I ate when I was hungry, I would have given a run to the record breakers of heaviest weights!  Instead my whole life was about starving.  

Too I am much less of a sceptic towards people who have “normal” attitudes towards food.  It is such a nice feeling to have a body now which does not tell me I am hungry 24/7!  When I read that this happens from the surgery, I thought, it can’t be!  I did not believe it!  For me, it is true, I am not hungry all the time, I am not food obsessed and I feel totally satisfied when I eat a half cup to a cup of food!  

Plus, I don’t need to be committing one of the seven deadly sins anymore!  Bonus!  Redemption!