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Originally Posted by Peckkale
 At what point does one's appetite return to a pre-op conditions and you end up back where you started from...Fighting your food cravings and weight? |
I am a newbie like Sandi, but I have to say that I didn't go into surgery thinking it would fix me forever, because one's hunger does return. However, if I follow the instructions about quantity of food, and types of food, I won't regain. I don't ever plan to try to see if I dump when I eat sugar. I don't plan to eat junk food anymore. If you keep the addictive stuff out of your system, you may have head hunger from time to time, but you don't have to fight "your food cravings and weight."
We have to use the tool *and* do the emotional/psychological work to maintain our new lifestyle.
The main things that contribute to success (I learned this at my support group tonight from a psychologist who had WLS) are: 1. continuing to eat low-fat foods, 2. don't graze or have unplanned snacks, 3. exercise, 4. after you're through the earliest phases, have 5 to 6 meals a day, eating less than 1 cup of food at each meal.
Of course I wouldn't follow recommendation #4 without checking with my nutritionist.
Good luck! Most people do succeed!!!!!!!
