EmperorXenu

When my doctor mentioned it as an option I was open to it and was planning to get around to it...eventually. Then one of my friends got type 2 diabetes. He's like 34 or 35 and I'm 32. He's much bigger than me but it still spooked the hell out of me. I know me and I know that type 2 diabetes would be a death sentence for me; There's no way I'd be able to manage it, it's too micromanage-y and I've got ADHD real bad. So I had to do something.

4 hours ago, Tim C said:

Don't feel that way, probably head hunger

No, dude, I know the difference between wanting to eat because I want to eat and being hungry.

On 2/21/2021 at 1:58 AM, GBLady41 said:

I'm sorry but when you're losing weight, your body is not hungry. You're losing weight because your body is using the energy and calories you take in and getting rid of what you don't need. Nine times out of ten, you are NOT actually hungry. It's head hunger. Weight loss surgery gives us all a chance to relearn our bodies and the difference between actual hunger and head hunger, between what our bodies need and what our brains crave. The truth is that our head does indeed play tricks on us, if we let it. We don't need 1000 calories to survive. It's not about calories, it's about energy, eating the food that actually fuels us, and knowing the difference.

Now some of us don't actually get hungry but we deal with head hunger, which has nothing to do with nourishing our bodies. It's to fill the chemical need of our brains. That's the truth. Get the necessary Protein. Get the fluids. Understand we need less "calories" than we think. Don't count calories. Count nutrients. Be victorious!!

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read in my life. I've got my basal metabolic rate right here in front of me. It's 1834kcals/day. So if my body naturally burns 1834 calories per day, what do you suppose would happen if I ate less than 1000 calories a day indefinitely? It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure it out.

Since nobody else has, here's a study I found: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406732/

I don't love the study, it's only 156 patients and boy do they have some large error bars on some of the numbers, but it should still give you a rough idea of what the reality is. In this study, the incidence of staple line leakage was 1.2% (2 patients), the incidence of staple hemorrhage was 0.6% (1 patient), incidence of GERD was 15.3% (24 patients), hiatal hernia requiring surgical repair was 0.6% (1 patient), and conversion to a gastric bypass was 0.6% (1 patient).

On 3/8/2021 at 1:06 PM, hbwk8 said:

Hi pls don’t judge I’m 18 I’m having the surgery soon and I just want to know if they’re going to drug test for weed

You should quit for a good while, at least a month, before surgery simply because using weed isn't going to be feasible for quite some time after surgery and you don't want to be dealing with the initial cravings of quitting while you're also dealing with surgery recovery. This is from someone well versed in these matters. You just don't want to have to go through that and risk injuring yourself.

I'm exactly the same, a little over a week out. Except that I'm hungry all the time. Makes me feel like my stomach is too big and the whole thing was pointless.

4 minutes ago, summerset said:

Once introduced to the concept of head hunger (plus a surgeon making steep claims about "hunger not being a thing anymore for a whole while") some people tend to go overboard and label every desire for food as pathologic "head hunger".

We get hammered into our heads almost constantly that we can't be trusted with food ever - so this is not really surprising in the end. Too many of us think that "others know better" when it comes to our bodies and their needs.

Yeah, I was told I wouldn't be hungry for a year. Turns out that was a lie. That's the correct conclusion, they were full of it when they said that. The conclusion isn't "Well I must not actually be hungry then". Wild.

I'm sorry, do people deny that hunger is a real thing? Y'all weird af what are you doing? I had gastric sleeve surgery a little over a week ago and I can assure you I have been freaking starving this whole time and if you want to tell me it's in my head I'll laugh you out of the room.