Let's just say you aren't hungry for Breakfast, do you skip it?

Do you eat even if you don't want it? Do we eat anyways for nutritional reasons?

TIA

Sandra

My doctor said if I'm not hungry don't eat.....I ask if I could skip meals... and he repeated if you are not hungry don't eat.............. I should add I haven't had that problem.

For the first 4 weeks, my doctor told me to force myself to eat and drink if I had to because I wouldn't heal properly without the hydration and the nutrition.

After those 4 weeks, I was told to keep my calorie minimum at 800 and to never skip meals because it means that I a) will eat something very high in calories later because I will eventually be really hungry, or :tongue: will overeat or eat past the band because I will eventually be really hungry. Both of these defeat the purpose of the band by not teaching us to make better food choices, and not working with the limits that the band is intended for. He said that I should start feeling hunger by the end of those 4 weeks.

Edited August 24, 200817 yr by Lanakila

My doctor and nurse specialist want us to eat. If you are too tight in the morning you could have a protein drink, but other wise you should be eating and making sure you get your protein in but keeping it 1000-1200 cal/day and 6-8 glasses of water a day.

I normally never ate breakfast unless we went out for it. Now I eat in the morning. I am in my 3rd week, and having 3 shakes. One morning before breakfast , one before lunch and one before dinner. I wait 30 minutes then eat my regular meals.

I have my cottage cheese and fruit for breakfast. I can have thinned out wheat hot Cereal with skim milk and splenda. Good for breakfast. Then have my lunch of thinned out mashed potatoes. Dinner I think I'll have pureed butternut squash with some ricotta cheese. I don't start mushy stuff for another 2 weeks. Not till week 5.

For a snack only approved foods. So either Jello, or sugar free pudding cup or applesauce cup (little servings) before bed. Only one. Then I can usually sleep well and not be wanting something later. I really am not very hungry but force myself to do this so in time I won't overeat. While I am healing need nutrition.

Edited August 24, 200817 yr by Shamrockgirl60

My doctor told me to:

1. Eat every 3-4 waking hours.

2. Make nutritious choices.

3. Always eat the protien first.

He said you never want to get hungry, because that is the sign that tells your body it is not getting enough food, so it goes into hybernation mode & stores for later. My body was in hybernation mode for 3 years. That is how I ended up here.

I follow these rules & it works for me.

Right I seem to eat something every 3-4 hours now and I am not hungry. Since being Type II diabetic I should and will eat 6 small meals a day.

I will space out my meals and that should keep me from being hungry.

i was told to never skip a meal. alot of times i'm not hungry so i'll just forget to eat...i've noticed that when this happens i'll get super irritable and cranky and tired...then i think about it, realize i havn't ate...eat something and realize I was actually very hungry! after eating my mood goes back to normal =)