Stretched sleeve

[millergirl314 168]

<p>Okay, I know I sound like a broken record... but here are a couple of things for hunger management to try.</p> <p> </p> <p>1. You might be having excess acid... that happens. I know, everybody says, "I don't have reflux" but i am telling you even excess acid without reflux can feel like a gnawing hunger. If I had known that during the 10 years I had the lapband I might not have grown to over 300# since I suffered with low grade acid and the only thing that soothed me was food. An acid inhibitor drug can do wonders if you need it.</p> <p>2. Carbs make me hungry. i mean, they really make me hungry. If I eat clean, stay low carb, I have a low to moderate appetite. When the carb monster is unleashed, i feel like I want to eat ALL the time.</p> <p>3. Go back to basics... dense Proteins are FILLING. Slider foods just slide by and don't give you that feeling of satisfaction. Seriously, try following the basic sleeve rules for a week or two and see if your appetite doesn't begin to decrease.</p> <p>4. Water load. Okay, this is where about 2-3 hours after a meal you start consuming alot of water. I mean, like, you down a couple of cups... don't make yourself uncomfortably full, but you should feel some lack of emptiness! This is not for the newly sleeved I would say, but for someone a ways out like me, it extends the time before I need to eat again.</p> <p>Conversely, don't drink before meals - a dry tummy gets full feeling on those dense proteins way faster then one already lubbed up by liquids.</p> <p>5. Practice to eating to absence of hunger, not to fullness. Over time you start to change your perception of "enough" and get more restriction.</p>

Cowgirl jane I think all of those are very important but #5 really stuck to me today. It's all too often I eat and wait for my notice that I'm full and then stop, when I should probably eat until it think that I'll no longer be hungry. Eating less, because I don't need to go till that full feeling. Thank you for that, all you veterans are so helpful :-)

[RJ'S/beginning 5,357]

I was scoped in June and my surgeon said that my sleeve was beautiful. No stretching and nice and pink....

I am able now to eat more then I did before without my usual signs that I am full. That sucks..I was hoping to keep those, as it was the time I quit eating. Now I study my sleeve more.....

Keeping to the Protein first and then veggies will work if you are not Hypoglycemic but I am. So I have to eat complex carbs that make up a complete Protein. So that I don't crash and burn and my sugars go under 3.....Still learning this new way of eating..But if I follow it..I don't have as many crashes as I was having.....

[okelly44 10]

Does anyone have an idea of what it takes to really stretch the pouch permanently? I'm one month out and think i'm fine, but there were a few times I was really thirsty, gulped lots of Water and then felt like I had bricks in my stomach, I've made this mistake once or twice as well by eating a bit more than I should have. I'm paranoid now... can one instance stretch it for life or is more a case of constantly overeating that stretches it little by little? Learning to eat much less and spot satiety in advance, but just wondering how problamatic and occasional mistake could be?

[lylabelle 257]

Stretching the stomach also has a lot to do with the skill of the surgeon. My surgeon had examples up of other surgeons work since he fixed a lot if sleeves. You could see where the stomach was able to stretch.

My esophagus is wider than my stomach, so huge gulps of Water or large amounts if food have to make their way in. That's why they say eat/ drink slow. It's that brick feeling otherwise.