Hungry

[Melanie Vandergriff 5]

fellow sleevers

I'm hungry! Is this why they push Proteins because if you eat them you aren't as hungry? 13 months post sleeve

[Guest]

same here 11 months out and I can eat a horse

[Arabesque 6,494]

I have odd days I feel hungry and days I don’t but when I feel hungry it’s more like a ‘it must be lunch time’ feeling not that I’m starving & have to eat.

Protein is more filling & satisfying and a more nutritionally beneficial choice than other foods such as carbohydrates which many of us turned to when we felt hungry pre surgery.

One of the benefits of the sleeve is that the area where much (but not all) of our hunger hormone is produced is removed. Another is a boosted metabolism which can make us feel hungry as we burn energy faster then before. This could be why you are feeling hungry.

It could also be head hunger as against real hunger. There are several threads on this & on doing the head work which I’ve found useful.

At least with our much smaller stomach we can’t eat that horse - at least not in one sitting 😁