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MyNewLife28    9

MyNewLife28
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Having issues with wanting to eat more than the sleeve will allow. Anyone else experience this? If you did, what did you do to help you get through it?

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wannaBthinsoon    1,634

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yep! I was hungry all the time at first. When I moved to the soft food stage is when I felt the restriction. Now I am lucky if I can get down 1 oz of anything at meal time. eggs, chicken salad, cottage cheese, refried Beans, stuff like that. I have added an additional Protein shake so I can meet my Protein requirements.

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00612    12

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Thank God!

I'm 4 days post & feel as though I'm always starving... To the point of tears. My husband is almost no help, and teases me regularly. I thought he'd be more hands on since he took 3 weeks off for my surgery. I'm just praying to God to help me to stay on the right path. I feel weak and vulnerable at this point.

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MyNewLife28    9

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I get full but my head says keep eating... Like I just can't get enough! I sure will be glad when I'm off restrictions but this is just depressive! I feel like I can't get enough food to feel better and I know that was my problem that hot me in trouble in the first place!

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jenpow    5

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I'm three weeks post op. It's been amazing to me how much hunger is in my head!!! Even when I'm completely full, my head is saying just take one more bite... try to distract yourself, get up, move around, find something to do. When your head is focused on something else you'll forget about it BC you really aren't hungry. Hardest thing for me has been grocery shopping!!! Although I am on a hugely restricted diet, I still have a family that has to eat! Either I want to buy everything, (BC it's in my head) or I want to buy nothing. It's def a struggle but it's getting better every day. Good luck!!

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KayStar728    0

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Hello,

I am new to this forum. I am 3 weeks post op. I feel hungry all the time as well. I heard that your mind hasn't caught up to your new stomach and it can be confused with head hunger. I have also heard that your body is still producing the same amount of acid for your little stomach, so to up your pepcid or prilosec. I am currently taking 3 anti acids and that has helped me a lot. I haven't lost any weight in 2 weeks. I started walking 5 times a week and burn on average 450-500 calories. I am so frustrated and can't understand how the scale has not moved. Has this happened to anyone?

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momfromjersey22    403

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Hello,

I am new to this forum. I am 3 weeks post op. I feel hungry all the time as well. I heard that your mind hasn't caught up to your new stomach and it can be confused with head hunger. I have also heard that your body is still producing the same amount of acid for your little stomach, so to up your pepcid or prilosec. I am currently taking 3 anti acids and that has helped me a lot. I haven't lost any weight in 2 weeks. I started walking 5 times a week and burn on average 450-500 calories. I am so frustrated and can't understand how the scale has not moved. Has this happened to anyone?

I recently went through a stall, but from the other posts I realize even though the scale doesn't move, you lose inches.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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