Hungry?

I haven't been hungry since the surgery but now all of a sudden I am. I get really hungry every couple of hours. I was wondering about everyone else. Please let me know.

Jane - Yes, me too!!! Just this last week is the first time that I've felt hunger at all since surgery. I am eating on a time schedule so I have to eat every three hours anyway, but sometimes I feel pretty hungery that last 1/2 hour before it's time to eat. Laurie

TOO Weird.... I just came back from vacation where I didn't stop long enough to eat or drink right... This week I am having hunger and cravings... I assumed it was because my body was deprived last week. Maybe it's just time to start wanting food again.... I'm back to packing everything for the day, so I'm ok on the "what", but I just had breakfast at 7:30 edt and I'm hungry 2 hours later. I'm trying to hold back the hunger monster with CL and I bought some beef jerky for the protein/chew boost. Hope everyone is still on the loosing team. Kate Z 313/???/125

I am so glad that someone else is feeling this!!! I just knew I was all alone, I even thought that maybe I had stretched my poor little pouch out. Andrea

I wonder about the pouch being stretched also.

Yup, I'm feeling hunger right about now...I'm hoping that it's legitimate beacause I have not had any solids this am yet. Just 1 scoop nectar leamon tea and 8 oz diet snapple. Also a small D&D Turbo Iced coffee.

I havent been hungry for a few weeks. I have been eating when I think about it and making a conscious effort to get in all my nutrition. Everyone should ask their doctors about how the stomach/pouch stretches. If it can, how it can, when it can. I think it will put your mind at ease knowing that really the only way you can stretch your pouch out is to constantly and consistently overeat to the point of vomiting. And, you would have to do this every day for months on end. The stomach is soft tissue, its going to grow with time so its important to realize that in time (even just 2-3 months) our tummies are going to grow therefor we will feel more hunger and be able to consume more. Dont freak out! Its all good...............

Hungry off and on. Mostly off, but I do have a lot of cravings now.

Jane, I was hungry for the first time since my surgery yesterday. It was weird! Today, I'm drinking green tea and haven't been hit with the hunger monster. I'm hoping this isn't going to be consistent, as it has sure been easy for me doing this way of eating when hunger has been absent! I thought hunger returned in 12 to 18 months, that this is our window of opportunity???? What gives? Lori 384/322/170

Hi, Jane - I'm one of those rare birds that got hunger pangs almost from day one. Okay, maybe it was more like 1 week, but I did definitely (and still do) feel hunger and get the (per Pooh) rumbly in my tumbly. Not the rumbly gas that we get rolling around, but the actual in the pouch rumbly hunger. Yeah, I was hoping I'd be one of those that 'forgot to eat' but alas, not so. Every 3-1/2 to 4 hours (unless I eat something pretty heavy) I get it, so I eat something. I try to eat 4 times/day (a.m., lunch, dinner, and an evening snack) and have a protein drink between lunch and dinner and my evening snack is USUALLY a smoothy. Michelle 340/326/266/175