There is more to this journey than just not being as hungry. There is a very mental side to re- understanding your body's signs for real hunger learning to chose healthy foods and breaking away from the things that got you here to start with. There are a few books that I've found or were suggested to my by my Bariatric psychologist.

1. Eat, Move,Sleep by Tom Rath

2. Lose Weight Easily by Loving Who You Are. Conquering the mental emotional side of losing weight. By S Wharton

3. The Body Book by Cameron Diaz

Anything that helps motivate you is good. I have incorporated exercise with healthy eating. And I've made it a habit. I'm 7 months post op &-have lost 123 lbs. 77 more to go. Good Luck to you

The Emotional First + Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery, by Cynthia L. Alexander

I'm a big audible book listener and when I first started out, I was scouring the land for first hand accounts of weight loss surgery. But really the only one I could find that focused strictly on wls from a patient's perspective was called: Stranger Here: How Weight Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed With My Head, by Jen Larsen.

It's a strange book about a woman who had the duodenal switch in 2006. Some of it I could relate to, but a lot I couldn't. For one, she just sort of stumbled into deciding to have weight loss surgery, and made absolutely no dedicated attempt to prepare herself going in. What surprised me most was how easily she was able to obtain approval, even after blithely gaining weight throughout the entire process.

That she experienced an overwhelming emotional crisis afterwards was all but a foregone conclusion. It definitely wasn't what I expected, but I was hungry for something other than the dry clinical "how to" instruction manuals, so I found myself listening to it again and again this past year. She gets a lot right, and even more wrong. So in many ways, for me at least, it served as a cautionary tale.

Edited July 20, 201511 yr by The Candidate

The Emotional First + Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery, by Cynthia L. Alexander

I second this. A must read for WLS patients.

The Emotional First + Aid Kit: A Practical Guide to Life After Bariatric Surgery, by Cynthia L. Alexander

I second this. A must read for WLS patients.

Reading this too, highly recommend it!