Tonight I'm going to attempt to cook my family dinner for the first time since my surgery last Monday. As I get everything prepared I find it so hard to resist wanting to eat it even though I know I'm not hungry. This is truly going to be hard to get used to, how do you you all deal with cooking for family with the food restrictions?

I simply stopped eating any whole wheat pasta, whole wheat crackers, whole wheat bread, sushi rice, long grain brown basmati and rice pasta. If my husband wants them he has to make it himself, which he does cause he is an athlete and preps his own food most of the time anyway. Potato and pastries had been banned from our house 10yrs ago by my skinny husband(those were his trigger foods). My daughter loves Shirataki noodles and doesn't seem to have noticed that we don't eat fried brown rice anymore. She actually likes my chickpea crepes for her lunch wraps better than the whole wheat tortillas I used to buy. I asked her to ask her grandparents to take her for sushi. I just can't make it and not eat it and I don't want to watch someone else eat it. Maybe try that Skinnytaste website to see if you can tweak your recipes to work for you. I feel for you, I couldn't make spaghetti carbonara and not eat it.

If the food you were cooking made you obese you definitely should tweak the recipes. I went thru a bad divorce as a child (3-5, wasn't a quick divorce)and medicated with food. Luckily my family only had healthy food at home. It took them awhile to figure out that I was hoarding food, sneaking food, even stealing food. Out of six children I was the only overweight child. Back then we didn't link obesity to depression. My poor parents blocked my access to high calorie carbs constantly which I resented then but now I thank God. I would have been 300 lbs in 6th grade!! You don't want to regain your weight and you don't want your children obese so I recommend you check all your recipes for calorie and carb counts and number of portions. I have been training my daughter for 2 years that simple carbs-which she and my husband eat are always portion controlled. No dumping Cheerios in a huge bowl, cereal is always poured in a measuring cup. A portion of wheat saltines is always 5. Simple carbs should be whole grain, are always eaten last and optional if you are already full. Keep simple carbs(breads,pasta, potatoes) to 25g per meal. Avoid eating simple carbs alone, add a protein or fat. All other food is free access. My sister in law is a triathlete now but she grew up meat and potatoes. She completely revamped every recipe to make it work for her.

I found that cooking really helps with my cravings, I don't eat the bad stuff but I smell it and that's good enough for me. I'm constantly looking up recipes on pinterest and trying new things. I will tweak things to make them more protein friendly but not diet tasting. My family usually enjoys what I cook. I'll make them a side of rice, pasta, potatoes or some other carb but I make very little just enough for them and I'll usually have a veggie. In fact they've actually been quite impressed with my cooking since I had surgery because I'm not making the same old things anymore.

Mango pickle what is ur recipe for the chickpea flour crepes?