http://www.obesity-surgery.wordpress-by.org/2006/12/30/six-days-out/ About types of surgeries available, dietary, family, work, emotional.. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.obesity-surgery.wordpress-by.org/2006/12/30/six-days-out/#comment-3676 Neva Marjory Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:18:39 +0000 http://www.obesity-surgery.wordpress-by.org/2006/12/30/six-days-out/#comment-3676 Congratulations on being on the "other side"! I hope your recovery goes smoothly and comfortably. I remember well what you mean about food commercials. Unfortunately, the detachment from food and eating doesn't last; many of us find that once our appetites and capacity return that we're still subject to the visual power of food and food marketing, and it takes a lot of conscious work to resist. It's worth trying to combat, though, it since there's probably no getting away from these images in modern American life. I try to counterbalance it by doing a lot reading about healthy nutrition, the politics of junk food marketing, that sort of thing. I absolutely agree that there's something bizarre about viewing this stuff when you're recovering from surgery. I remember watching a Food Network special on the Coney Island hot dog eating contest when I was a week or two out of surgery. It felt incredibly weird. <!--more--> Celia Congratulations on being on the “other side”! I hope your recovery
goes smoothly and comfortably.
I remember well what you mean about food commercials.
Unfortunately, the detachment from food and eating doesn’t last;
many of us find that once our appetites and capacity return that
we’re still subject to the visual power of food and food marketing,
and it takes a lot of conscious work to resist. It’s worth trying
to combat, though, it since there’s probably no getting away from
these images in modern American life. I try to counterbalance it by
doing a lot reading about healthy nutrition, the politics of junk
food marketing, that sort of thing.
I absolutely agree that there’s something bizarre about viewing this
stuff when you’re recovering from surgery. I remember watching a
Food Network special on the Coney Island hot dog eating contest when
I was a week or two out of surgery. It felt incredibly weird.

Celia

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