I want to pose a true grit question here. Has anyone been hungry just a week and a half out after surgery?

I was just sleeved last Monday and people all over the board have raved about their sleeves and the loss of hunger, and filling up on half a cup or less etc.

I know head hunger is different than real hunger, but I am not sure what I am experiencing. I truly wasn't hungry the first 3-4 days since I was so many meds, and hurting, so it went by fast, but now, after 10 days, I am feeling hungrier. I can have my Protein shake, then Soup and a popsicle and still wish I could have a cracker or something. I am on the liquid post op diet for another week and wondering when I eat real solid food or even mushies if this will change.

In other words, do you think I am hungry since liquids move through quicker than other food so I don't feel my sleeve fill up? I have yet to feel "FULL" since surgery, but since I haven't had solid food in almost a month, I am not sure what I am feeling.

Does this make sense to anyone? I just want to know what I am experiencing is normal and that I am on the right track!

Thanks!

I just spoke with my nutritionist about my next phase diet and she confirmed what all of us have been thinking. At first you think of your stomach like a drain, and liquid just drains out, but once we start adding more thick and solid foods, it slows down. She said then I will realize how small my new stomach is!

I can't wait. I start next week!!!

I was really hungry on the clear liquid stage, and hungry on the full liquid stage, but not as hungry. I felt completely satisfied when I was able to move to mushies.

I was told the hunger hormone grehlin takes awhile to leave our bodies, and it does not happen immediately after surgery.

Just a quick comment for BoredOnceMore......if you're planning a high carb food like Malt O'Meal for your first mushie please be prepared for that to trigger a carb craving that will be fierce. If you can control it, fine....but I know that Cream of Wheat is a trigger food for me and I have to really prepare for it as an indulgence!

One way to help offset the high carbs in Malt O'Meal or Cream of Wheat is to stir in one or two beaten egg whites as it finishes cooking. This adds Protein, really almost no flavor and just makes it creamier.

Good luck either way!

I was sleeved on 12/19/09 and I am hungry. well, i don't know if it is hunger, but the empty feeling I see some of you write about. I just finished sipping 1 cup of broth over 1 hour and it was delicious. Now, about 15 minutes out, i feel like I didn't have anything. but, i think I am feeling that because my tongue doesn'[t feel like it had any food on it... I think a lot of it for me may be texture. since liquids have no texture, it may be fooling me into thinking I am hungry. Not sure. Anyway, with the exception of the broth, I am just sticking to the regiment my doc stuck me on. The broth may be a bit more than what I was supposed to drink in an hour, but I am just going to get one with the regiment and talk to the doc about it on Wed. I already committed to this surgery and I need/want to make it work. gotta get my head on straight....

Edited December 21, 200916 yr by Wisconsin_Gal
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Sometimes I feel really hungry and at other times I can go for hours without thinking of eating. The problem with that though is that when I do start eating I quickly realise how hungry I actually was and then end up scoffing too much and too fast. The answer for me is to try and keep to a fairly regular pattern. I still don't get clear 'full' signals and if I am enjoying something can over indulge and then end up being sick - I try to avoid that by telling myself that it's ok to go back and get some more later on (usually I forget and don't bother). It's getting easier as time goes on I think.

Wisconsin_Gal,

Just keep sipping a variety of things. I'm drinking broth, lower sugar fruit juice, low sugar Gatorade, Crystal Light, water, hot tea, Protein drinks made with water (this helps the most with a feeling of fullness). It's a short phase, meant for healing so we don't stress our staple line or force the stomach to contort in order to digest foods. We can make it!! (I'm just a few days ahead of you...my sleeve was done on the 14th).

So are these hungry feeling with the growlies and all? You know like how it used to be? You'd get so hungry that you could puke? Tell me no, because that is not good. . I've not been sleeved yet, but every bit of news helps me. . .

Ok. If you are doing the overseas thing, please make sure you don't bring crystal light LEMONADE like I did!!! LOL... I took one sip and thought uh oh. I just ruined a full bottle of Water with a citric juice I can't drink... UGH! Pick non-citric stuff...

Tracy, the doc has me on water every 15m, juice/broth every 2 hours, and some various things every 4 - 6 hours. My cousin just got me some flavored unsweetened water, but they sure don't taste like they do in the US... I should have prepared better, but I guess that is a lesson learned. I plan on getting more broth for dinner and am drinking some apple juice (not lower sugar from what I can see) but considering a bottle lasts me 2 days, I think that's OK.

Proper preparation is important! Don't mess it up like I did! :-)

You ALL can get through this!

I recently was hospitalized for pancreatitis. They said the only thing that would make the pancreas heal was nothing by mouth. No food no Water, just an IV. I went from Monday until Thursday with nothing by mouth and I was so happy I was sleeved. I was never hungry all those days.

The ghrelin will leave your body and you won't be hungry!