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Originally Posted by botchy
I am 7 months post op and have never been hungry. Most of the time when I think of eating I immediately feel full in ANTICIPATION! I asked my dr. about never feeling hungry and she said we most likely never will.
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It would be nice if our hunger never returned. However then we would lose too many in malnutrition. This is a tool, because your hunger will return. You will not only have hunger return, but you will also have to work to maintain your weight loss. I hope none of you make the mistake of thinking that this is how it will be forever. This is the honeymoon period, and that is it! The doctor that said you most likely will never gain your appetite back certainly never had the surgery, and probably isn't the one you had do the surgery. This is a tool for when your appetite returns, not if, but when. Do I have the same appetite I had before? Sometimes I think I do, but then I always am reminded that I may have the same appetite, but I do not have the capacity. So if I am good to myself, I feed my pouch enough for satiety, and when my hunger returns, I see the clock has ticked away many hours. usually 5 to 6 hours I feel hungry, sometimes longer. Depending what I eat. If I eat lets say the chicken from a fajita, and fill up on that, I won't even think of food for at least 6 hours. If I eat lets say the fajita meat and the tortilla, I use up some of my space with tortilla, carbs, and that stimulates my hunger in less time. So while you cannot eat a gallon anymore, you can still eat the wrong things and be able to eat alot more of the stuff we aren't supposed to eat than total protein. So then you are hungry faster. You cannot eat alot at one sitting but you can go back and nibble, snack, or eat the other half of your meal in just a couple hours if you make wrong food choices.
I just want everyone to know that the actual goal of eating as per pouch rules for dummies is that we will have the ability to eat a cup and a half of food at one sitting. 12 ounces. That my friend is alot of food. Or is it? Well lets see a can of soda is 12 ounces. So the goal is to eat a can of soda full of food three times a day. That seems impossible for the first year. I cannot eat that much yet, at least not in the good for me stuff. Chicken from a fajita, (yummies) a soda can full? No way, not today, but sometime down the line Probably and thats okay if its 80% protein. 12 ounces of mashed potato? I know it seems alot of potato, but its soft and slides down easy, so some of it is already down and out before you finish another bite.
Here is a clue to when your appetite will return. When food starts tasting better. When you actually look forward to your meal because for the first time since surgery it actually is palatable. The appetite comes back in an instant, and may cause ya to worry a little, cuz when it comes back you are able to eat more at the same time.
The key here is to totally eat a childs portion for the rest of our lives. When the ability to eat more than that 12 ounces creeps up on me, I will start eating out of a soda can.
I don't deprive myself of anything I want. I lived that way for too long. I find I no longer want that huge cake, but I do want cake now and again. When my cycle comes, man I gotta have some chocolate cake, so instead of getting a cake, I get a bite of cake at starbucks and pay an indecent price for the taste, but it is worth that price, because now I have had my taste, and a taste for later, then thats over and gone. The other two feet of cake never came home with me so I couldn't eat it.
Take care and hugs,
Traci
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