There are some days that I'm SOOOO hungry. Not every day, just some days. What do you do about it? I eat high protein snacks/meals/shakes, but it's not enough. I'm not satisfied. Then there are days I have to make myself eat. I just don't get it.

Im unscientifically guessing that is the days my body is working on actually dropping some weight… this is the only correlation I can find to when it’s happening to me. Also drinking flavored water helps me… (and this phenomenon has been noticed because i do weigh myself daily)

and I wouldn’t say im super hungry, just more snack-y feeling, if that makes sense!

Edited August 3, 20233 yr by Sigh
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3 minutes ago, Sigh said:

Im unscientifically guessing that is the days my body is working on losing some weight… this is the only correlation I can find to when it’s happening to me. Also drinking flavored water helps me…

Oh, that would be nice... I'm one pound away from ONEderland.

This has recently started happening to me as well. Some days I can't consume more than 500 cal. Some days, by the time I know it, I'm up to 750+ cals by the end of the day. It's really weird.

16 hours ago, LindsayT said:

There are some days that I'm SOOOO hungry. Not every day, just some days. What do you do about it? I eat high Protein snacks/meals/shakes, but it's not enough. I'm not satisfied. Then there are days I have to make myself eat. I just don't get it.

im almost 5 years post and i still have days when im super hungry.

what do i do? i eat.

i wont go to town on a buffet spread or anything, but i will fix myself a bowl of something in a regular-person-ish portion size.

satisfied or not, restriction will usually stop any more eating...so gotta choose my food wisely if im aiming solely for "satisfaction" (cravings: only specific things are wanted) or if im feeding an empty stomach (hunger: anything will do).

and yep, i i still also have days when its like 4pm and i suddenly realize i haven't eaten a thing. then think: i should eat, but don't really want to. so...i don't.

i hate forcing myself to eat something i don't want just as much as i hate not eating something i DO want. sooo....i just eat when/what i want.

groundbreaking, i know. the restriction in my stomach helped alot to "train" me to eat this way. so thanks, stomach!

of course im almost 5 years out, so its a little different for me, but i pretty much adopted this MO since the beginning (except i purposely avoided starches and sugar in the 1-2 years or so, now nothing is off limits...well except copious amounts of sugar at once cuz i dump)

Edited August 4, 20233 yr by ms.sss

Being only 3 months out, it's hard to deviate from the plan. We did go for some Chinese yesterday and that seemed to satisfy my hunger, but man, I didn't feel well after. Hopefully the right balance will figure itself out soon.

Its a thing with me too. On the occasions that I am not hungry, I don't eat. Then the opposite, I eat protein dense foods to satisfy my hunger

I think that if I had always been a slim woman then it wouldn't be an issue. Eat, don't eat meh!

eight years out. I still have "big pouch days" and "small pouch days".

Totally relate to this. I also have mega hungry days (weirdly Mondays feature heavily in those) and less hungry days.

At 20 months post op I just go with it. Nuts, seeds, deli meats and cheese can satisfy me on almost all my hungry days. I prefer small volumes of those as opposed to bigger volumes of carbs (crisps/chips, bread, pizza, pasta, rice, etc.) They're basically a no-no now. Zero added nutrition - they're just the same as cake afaic.

On the (very few now) days I go for those as a quick hit or they're the only available option they sit in my stomach like a lump of lead and I regret that choice.

I do have days where I make bad food choices but I don't *totally* rely on my procedure to be my Jiminy Cricket. I own it up front and then claw it back.