Hi guys.

I got banded on Friday...so it's been about 3 days. I started off slow..drinking broth and having an occassional popsicle. Yesterday, I started to feel a little more hungry so I introduced Ensure shakes and last night had some egg drop Soup.

Today...I've been even hungrier...I've had two Ensure shakes and a little more of the egg drop soup with some hot sour soup as well.

I just ate about 30 minutes ago, and I'm already hungry again!!! Should I just stick with the Ensure....or should I go ahead and start with some pureed black bean soup or something? I don't want to overdue it...I've had no problems with anything I've eaten so far....but I thought I'd see what most of you guys were eating 3 days after surgery. All the information I received seemed to be more for gastric bypass...which is a little bit longer recovery process.

THANKS!

Brooke

I got banded on Friday as well. I have stayed on the prescribed liquid diet and i am hungry too! If i have read the literature correctly, the liquid passes right through, hence, we are hungry. I just started on 1/4 cup diet jello or pudding and it does very little to relieve the hunger. I am just keeping in mind that, once i start the more solid food phase, it should be better. The more solid food digests slower and will keep my full longer.

Just hang in there. Put up with the hunger knowing that it won't last forever!

Remember-NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS!!

Good luck!

i was banded 4/1 and i am not hungry at all. I do 2 protein shakes that have 27 grams of protein is probably why. I have added in an occasional yogurt or broth.

I was banded on march 20th, and i was totally starving until i got to muchies!!! i feel your pain, i really do!! it gets better when u eat muchies!!

good luck

amy

i was banded on the 31st and i am hungry as well, i am now on full liquides, creamed soups and such and i wanted to see how fast they would go through, so i poured them thru a funnel ,in and out it went, so now i can understand why we wouldnt feel full yet, but i tell you what having a sugar free jello really seems to help, because that doesnt pass as quickly...i cant wait until next week to eat! but the unjury protein shakes are def helping i am having 2 8oz servings of those a day...mar

Do some searches about "Bandster Hell." Most people experience this - although a few a lucky enough not to. Stay on your prescribed diet because that's what lets your stomach pouch heal. It does get better - much better - but it takes patience and will power.

Brad

I was banded on Saturday and I'm also very, very hungry at times. I make protein smoothies and I also have diet Jell-O, juice, water, yogurt and soup. Yogurt is the most filling, so if I'm really hungry, I have yogurt. I just had some pureed soup and feel pretty full from that, but I have been hearing my stomach growl a lot.

I just was banded Friday 4/3 and am so hungry as well. It is nice to know that there is more than one of us feeling hungry. I don't know if I can wait 3 more weeks though for food- this is crazy. I just ate 1 hour ago and now my stomach is growling. :thumbdown:

I just was banded Friday 4/3 and am so hungry as well. It is nice to know that there is more than one of us feeling hungry. I don't know if I can wait 3 more weeks though for food- this is crazy. I just ate 1 hour ago and now my stomach is growling. :smile:

MY stomach growls some but I don't feel hungry. I just hear it. If you are drinking your Protein shakes I would look at how many grams of protein there are. Mine are Bariatric

Advantage and have 27 grams of protein. I don't feel hungry with those and neither does my office mate.

I got banded on April 6th, not only am I a little hungry but I can't stop thinking of all the foods I will miss haha! I can't really figure out if I am hungry or if it's just gas pains! idk I guess I will see!! good luck to all

I as well was banded on 4/2 , and i am definitely finding myself getting more and more hungry. im glad i found this site and your post, it sounds like this is par for the course. we'll just have to ride it out till its time to eat solid food..

I'm pretty sure this was my biggest complaint last week!! CONSTANT HUNGER!!! I wasn't sure if it was hunger pains or gas pains that I was suffering through. I made some really runny potato Soup and that helped fill me up. I'm still on liquids now but have started eating things like spaghetti REALLY blended into Spaghetti soup. (very low amount of noodles in there, really really soupy) It's yummy and it helped.

My biggest complaint is everything I could eat was sweet!!! I was so sick of sweet food that first week that I was about to scream!! Now I'm happy with my runny potato soup and spaghetti soup. lol. Hang in there, it'll get better! I can't imagine how much I'm going to love the mushy phase coming up!

Hang tough you guys! Once you start getting fills it will gradually get better. You just have to be patient because it may take 2, 3, 4 or even more fills to achieve satisfactory restriction - everyone is different. It's frustrating because you wait so long to get the surgery behind you that you think "ok, I've got the band - let's get that weight coming off" and it's normally not so easy. But one things' for sure - it's worth the wait - you'll see.

Keep fighting!

Brad

i was wondering the same thing, I got my band on april 2nd and i am hating this stage.

I am starving my stomach is so angry with me that i have woken so suddenly in the mornings with hunger pains that i have started vomiting.

I gave into in tonight and had some mashed potatoes for my tea. Yes i know it was wrong and have to pull my head in and go back to the fluids torrow.