not painful, per say. when they were doing one of my back surgeries, they cut the never that makes it digest food, so I don't know when i'm hungry...hence, my eating is not physical, just a bad habit. I take a few meds to digest food. no biggie. glad we got some new pics today, always happy to see them. can't wait to see what the mail brings tomorrow. we're getting snow on sunday night to mon am