OK...so I had surgery on Wednesday...did all the liquids yesterday and full liquids today...I managed to drink a bunch of water and gag down 1/2c of Campbells Soup at Hand Creamy Chicken...so it's 9:35pm and I figured I'm not hungry but need to get some calories in so I made some Cream of Wheat...very runny...had about 6 teaspoons full and have absolutely no more interest in it...this is freaking me out! What I really want is some water...so perhaps I'll bust open another 14oz bottle of Nalgene...

Is this normal? I'm so bored...I think I used to spend time eating when I was bored...I'm trying to stay up a little later and get a full 8 hours of sleep because the past few nights has been scattered up and down...

I can't believe I'm not hungry...if I stay like this I'll be a waif in no time...but seriously did you have to force yourself to eat...is it just the bloat and anesthesia waiting to wear off?

Perhaps I"ll read...that will satisfy my boredom...I feel so unnormal right now!

Yes, it's totally normal...at least based on my experience it is. But it will not last forever, and you probably won't starve in the interim. Do keep up on the protein, though. Without it, you'll start to feel less good.

Sue

Start working on ways to occupy your time now though! The hunger will come back and you may be tempted to start eating when bored again. At 10 months out I'm finally starting to learn how to not eat when I'm bored. It's definitely a hard habit to break.

Took me about 3 weeks until I started feeling a little more hungry again. Good luck on finding ways to fill your time!

There is no point in forcing yourself to take in anything if you are not hungry. There is no way you are going to starve to death before your normal hunger kicks back in. The most important thing is to get in your water. Sip it constantly throughout the day - no need to "force" that either. Have a few sips everytime you think about it.

I had absolutely no hunger for 2 weeks - ah, what a blissful time! lol Then I was all healed, and I was "me" again.

And of course I echo what everyone else has already said - stripped from the trappings of hunger, you now see your beast for what it truly is - emotional eating (boredom is an emotion). I needed therapy to help me with that, as I really had no idea what was going on, why I was hungry all the time, even after a meal where I was full - I still felt this drive to eat. Therapy gave me the tools to recognize emotional eating, and ways to substitue preferred actions for eating when I was not physically hungry.