When you can't have something, you want it until you get it

Same with me when I had my oral surgery as well but the recovery was 6 months to repair my jaw and I could not eat anything solid and was so dying for pork chops. lol I find it the same with gadgets like cell phones as I am one to love all the latest and greatest then when I do it is like, oh well I have it and then only really use it to call. lol I have toned down quite a bit.

I think that it is because when we can't have something it makes us hone in on just that thing. We are thinking about it, wanting it so badly. Or minds land on a certain topic and get it out of the way. If we could finalize it and just tell ourselves we can't and move on it would be okay. But we can't. We focus on what we can't have and then we start wanting it!

hello Steph, This really made me smile,i remember each time i visited a friend/relatives confined/hospitalized and visitors bringing them food,and the patient can't eat those foods,so it ended to the one who's taking care the patient. (hehehe) Better bring foods once the patient is already at home and needs more foods for recovery.

HI Stephanie Ann C: That's so right. I think we act like kids sometimes. Things that we can't do for any reason seem to be more attractive but that's just because of that restriction. We became obsessed of the fact that it's supposed that we can't do it that we can't get them out of our heads. ALVARO

The worst is when you do not want it any more! I was restless till I got my dvd and now there it is lying around which I have not used in days. Same is the case with cable channels. I will drive the guy mad till he gave me certain channels and then I will never tune in to them. I could go on and on.........

Hello Stephanie, Yes this is true about what you said. It usually happens with me when in my house there isn't milk anymore. It is usually when we have potatoes in our dinner. And then we how full bottle of milk in home no one want It anymore. So yes It is happening with different things and then you get what you want you do not want It anymore. I think this is happening with everyone.

ice cream....I always think I want a sundae or something after a big dinner..when I get it then I am too full and don't really want it! LOL

I don't think so although there are some things I have wanted to do and when I start doing it it is not nearly so exciting any more but often still very satisfying

Last time i had a tooth pulled the dentist said not to suck on anything like awaterpipe or a spliff. That was all i wanted. Thank goodness for eatables.

Aww...the human nature of wanting what we are not allowed..LOL. I wasn't allowed chocolate or anything with caffeine in it for a period of two weeks while I was having some teats run...I wanted a Snicker bar so bad I couldn't stand it. I would go into the break room and there it would be...shining from behind the glass.

I think that's just part of being human. Always wanting what we don't have, what we can't have, and what we shouldn't have. Specially when limitations are pressed upon us, then the need seems to be very great. It has been 2 days since you posted this discussion, so I hope by now you feel a little better. And able to have some of the crunchy delights.

I think most of us always need something to want desperately because it motivates us,it gives a sense to our daily efforts when we know that the moment will come to enjoy that thing we want so much,and after we finally get it,we're no longer thrilled by it;I guess it's a psychological problem and it's a good thing that we want something badly as long as it doesn't turn into an obsession.Personally I can't say that there was something I wanted desperately and lost interest in it when I finally got,but there are things I really want and I wonder if my excitement at the thoughts of having them will remain the same when I reach those goals.

I remember when I was kid, my parents taught me fasting. I didn't eat anything during fasting and whenever I saw food I wanted to eat them. But after dusk time, when I could eat anything I didn't eat all, and I didn't want them anymore. I think when something is prohibited we want to do this, because of our curiosity.

Ha! I can say that I can relate in a way... I had gone years with impacted, painful wisdom teeth and had very little means to get them removed. My situation seemed impossible, but finally my husband and I were able to scrape enough money to get the surgery for me. It was difficult thinking about all the pain I was in and had been in for so long and how long I had waited for the surgery and wanted it... Then I finally got it and it was something I completely didn't want to go through anymore. Obviously. Healing wasn't even that bad and I wanted to be thankful that it was finally done, but all I could think about were the gaping holes in the back of my head, the sickness from the medication, the emptiness in my stomach, and general disgusting feeling of healing. Best of luck to you. It does get better soon enough!

I know what you mean! When I had my wisdom teeth out I was told which foods and drinks I could have, and which ones I could absolutely not have. One was hot chocolate. Well for the next two days all I thought about was hot chocolate. A few days later I went to the store to buy some (I was out of the danger zone by then.) hot chocolate. I got into that aisle, found the hot chocolate, and couldn't seem to find that craving anymore. I left without buying it. It suddenly didn't sound that good anymore.

hello, Oh? that's alright. ha ha I also experience that I hate that kind of craving when you cannot have! I experience it when I have a braces and I cant even eat hard food which I really love for 2 years I never eat it. Wow! I crave for it. ha ha I make a substitute by eating some foods that I also like. ha ha good luck