Do you feel full all the time? - ThinnerTimes - Gastric Bypass Forum, Lap Band Forum, and Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Forum

SweetSouthern · 07-30-2009, 10:42 AM

I have a question for the long timers. Do you sometimes feel like you eat all day every day just to get in what is required? I am never hungry, well, not with hunger pains. I can tell when I need food. It's a different sensation and I have physical signs that tell me to eat such as feeling shaky or trouble concentrating. Sometimes I feel like all I do is eat. I hate this. I can't eat very much at a time (just a few bites here and there so I can keep solids down without hurting) and I feel like it's a lot though when I eat all day. If I add up calories and protein, I am right where I need to be, but dang this is getting old having to constantly have something to eat to make this happen. When it's time for another meal sometimes, I feel almost nauseated at the thought of eating because I feel bloated or gassy in my pouch or like I just don't have room to put it in there. Some days eating is a chore all together and I don't get much in. I just drink my requirements in protein shakes. Do you guys have days like this where you just get tired of eating? I have a cupboard and fridge FULL of food, alot I can't tolerate or hold down even though it is in my allowed foods, but there is nothing that I want! ARGH

I hate when I go to the fridge also and have an abundance of food, but only a couple of things that I can tolerate or eat without hurting my grouchie pouchie. It's almost not worth the trouble sometimes to find anything that works. Certain things will look good sometimes, but I know better than to even fantasize about eating them because I just can't tolerate them.

Am I alone in this and am I just being difficult or do any of you guys feel this way too? I am not frantic or anything. I have learned to live with it. It's just a part of my life now. It sure does get old. But just curious if I am alone in this or if some of you guys are having these feelings too this far out.

Crimson Kittie · 07-30-2009, 03:46 PM

I completely understand Trina. There are days that I would just as soon not be bothered to eat anything. It gets exhausting sometimes to find things that are good for me and I can tolerate. I know I can't go without eating .. I'm just saying sometimes that option just seems to be easier.

Especially toward the end of the month when money is low and all that is left in the cupboards is freakin' Pasta stuff. I have taken to buying a few cans of different beans to keep in my room so they don't get eaten by the rest of the house

As you I have just accepted it as a way of life ... but sometimes it's just not all that easy to have things readily available to eat even when there is an abundance of food in the house.

My sister brought home some fresh baked Parmesan bread the other day and it smelled sooooo good ... but the thought of eating it just turned my stomach. I tried a very thin slice of bagel a few weeks ago .. toasted no less ... and after about 3 bites I was sick the rest of the day ... soooo I won't be trying that again any time soon.

Being one that doesn't feel hunger anymore I have to eat by the clock ... and even then sometimes it just doesn't want to go down ... like I haven't fully digested from the last meal or something.

The only way I can tell if I am truly hungry is if I start getting a headache or start getting really antsy.

.. and if I get busy doing stuff ... I can go for hours and hours with no food ... I just don't have that trigger anymore to make me think about it.

... you mentioned opening the fridge and seeing a lot of food - I feel overwhelmed sometimes by food choices if I am out to a relative or even if my brother in law has been cooking up a storm. I get scared I am going to pick something that won't settle right.

I've just chalked it up to good days and bad days. Maybe today I can have a bit of tuna ... but tomorrow it's going to make me throw up for hours. Maybe today I can have some chicken .. but maybe tomorrow it will refuse to stay down.

The not knowing is what kills me. So far the ONLY type of food I can count on not disagreeing with me on occasion is Soy and vegetable proteins.

Bleh .. I feel like I rambling .. I hope this made some sense

GrandmaRose · 07-30-2009, 03:53 PM

I WISH I didn't feel hungry all the time! Right now I am going thru another phase where I think I have to eat all the time! Especially watermelon and cantaloupe - which are plentiful and delicious right now. And corn on the cob.

My problem is that I don't have any teeth to chew with - have to "gum it" - which works with melon, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc. slider foods, which don't really fill me up.

When I think I just can't stand it any more, I have a cup of coffee - it's warmed up and makes me think I'm getting something.

What a trip, huh?! But how joyful to be able to make choices and not feel guilty all the time about eating!

Crimson Kittie · 07-30-2009, 04:28 PM

But the ironic part is ... now I worry more than I ever did about what I eat lol

I never put anything in my mouth without weighing the consequences or worrying if it will make me sick.

Corrine · 07-30-2009, 04:39 PM

I'm coming up for my 2nd anniversary and have yet to have any sensation of hunger.

I have to eat to the clock but it doesn't take much to completely forget if I'm busy.

And I also have to weigh and measure everything too because I have no feeling of being satisfied or even full until I've overdone it.

Food no longer has appeal to me. Of course, my teeth get bored occasionally but that's never for anything that's WLS friendly so I don't keep crap stuff in the house.

I've been having some tummy issues recently and even when I'm not in pain or discomfort, eating has been a real chore.

Crimson Kittie · 07-30-2009, 05:00 PM

I can commiserate Corrine .. I felt absolute crap the past few days ... I think I am fighting off a cold on top of it .. and being flemmy and foamy ... nothing is settling well

SweetSouthern · 07-31-2009, 12:29 AM

This makes me feel better to know I am not alone. You guys are having the same feelings I am. I eat by the clock too. It just gets so old and boring. I eat the same things day after day after day because they are safe and I know they will work. It has even gotten to where if I try something new, I feel "guilty" for eating it! What's wrong with that sentence? Is that not crazy? Oh how the head gets screwed up with this surgery and all the wires crossed for sensations that normal people feel such as fullness or hungry.

Corrine, I have the problem of not knowing if I am full from food too when I eat. I just measure and eat a few bites. But I have overdone it a couple of times in three years and oh my gosh does it ever hurt! So I am sure to not do that. I just hate not having the hunger feeling or wanting the food anymore. It's so mechanical now. But I am thankful you guys replied and let me know I am not alone.

Kat, you do understand also honey. It's not so fun, huh?

Rose, I wish I felt hunger sometimes. I'm sure I wouldn't want to feel it to the extent that you seem to, but it would be nice to feel that hunger feeling again instead of trying to pack food in on an already full-feeling pouch.

Crimson Kittie · 07-31-2009, 02:11 AM

Yep I sure do understand. That's why I say anyone who wants to claim this is the "easy" way to do things ... send em my way ... I would love to fill them in a bit

That being said ... I would gladly go through this every day to keep seeing the results I am though ... I know sometimes things get misunderstood in translation on forums ... I in NO way regret my decision at all. I have a feeling you guys feel the same way. I just didn't want anyone new to wander in and think I was complaining and having regrets

lol ... I feel like I just wrote a disclaimer!

SweetSouthern · 08-02-2009, 09:33 AM

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maline · 08-02-2009, 10:20 AM

Hi
if anyone ever says to me its an easy option,how often do eat when your not hungry !!
Im afraid I do get hungry but if I get to that stage and leave it to long I can only eat a mouthful and Im full,I just go with it just try and eat regularly Im 2years out and maintaining quite well, Still have to fight my personal demons like bread which I love but avoid
The only thing that my pouch does not like is icecream normal or sugarfree
Regards to all