Head Hunger

Hi everyone, I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this yet, but the head hunger is about to drive me insane. I see all the food commercials on TV and I want everything that's advertising. Even the stuff that I wouldn't normally eat. I guess I thought I wouldn't experience it this soon. I don't really feel hungry, but I WANT to eat. Especially something crunchy, which I can't have yet since I'm still on soft food until this Wed. Guess I'm just venting,,,thanks for reading. Loretta

mine started in the hospital. i was in for 10 days and 9 of those was on a clear liquid diet. i'm two days out now, and have actually been food shopping for things I can put in the blender. I've spent $200, and I don't even know how long everything is going to last. I felt kinda stupid last night.

Wow, I thought it was just me! I cant stop thinking about food. I'm just 5 days out of surgery and I dont know how I'm gonna do it. Makes me feel a bit better thats its not just me though. Good Luck

HI, I have this problem as well, I have not seen so many good looking food commerical in my life, I just get up and move and go for a walk or read or go and get a sf popcicle, works "sometimes" for me. But I also know easier said than done, but we will make it though these tuff moments, we did not go though all of this for not. Chrisy

Hi, I am nearly 6 weeks out now, and I had terrible head hunger in the beginning, two days after I came back from hospital I ate a vienna sausage (I was still supposed to be on pureed food) I ate it without processing it and ended up getting ill. My brain didnt seem to want to listen to the fact that I only needed a small amount of food and I couldnt gulp or swallow as much as I could pre-op. I had a lot of pain from eating due to just being totally stubborn and not listening to my pouch. Even now I still sometimes eat too much or too fast and get uncomfortable - I am definitely not hungry - one of the side effects of the type of surgery that I had is that the part of your stomach that secretes the hunger hormone grehlin is removed so your appetite is drastically and permanently decreased. All I could think about was food. HOWEVER!!!! The minute I started eating soft food and started eating a wider variety of food, I must say that head hunger has diminished so much its like I am a totally different person. I was driven to tears a few times after surgery because of being in situations where I knew I could not eat 'what I thought I wanted' It is really so much better now. Hang in there it does get a lot better! I promise

I'm glad I'm not the only one either. I dream about food, now that's pretty bad! I told my husband that if I had it to do all over again, I would have waited until after the holidays.

OMG... I dream about food too, the 1st week was the worst ... It is very hard to deal with. I was stupid at the beginning & got the cheap s/f popcicles (YUCK) & I bought the name brand pop. & fudgecicles last night & LOVED them. The fudge ones made me not crave chocolate as much. I'm looking forward to the holidays & planning on bringing something good & different that I can eat. For some reason I have been seeing alot of food commercials & have been craving shrimp for some reason...dont know why..it's never been my favorite thing before. Just wondering...I was at church yesterday (1st time back since surgery) & at communion we always have bread & wine.. I took both not thinking & kinda spit the wine out right before swallowing, could 3oz of wine make us sick right now?? Stupid question..but I was just wondering We will get through this !!!!!

I have been going thru the same thing. Only I seem to give in when I shouldn't. It doesn't help that nothing has made me sick yet. I think I am just getting depressed, I haven't updated my profile since before my surgery, I just lay on the couch. This too shall pass, right?

Wow I am not alone!!!! None of us are alone sisters and brothers of WLS. I have issues with eating constantly..............We need to drink more water and stay more active and busy. I know what my problem is..........sitting at this computer and desk all day and the stress of the phone calls I take from people who don't know how to manage their money really gets to me. So I turn to snacking and wanting to graize, it makes me calm. I go home and I get busy cleaning and decorating and wrapping gifts and laundry. I NEED A FILL IN MY BAND and a KICK IN THE ARSE to get myself going again. Back to the basic's of liquid and excercise. I dislike being a slacker. Thinking of us all every second of my day! Jackie

I agree Head Hunger sucks. I came home from the hospital on thanksgiving, the next day I bet I saw 30 subway commercials. I wasn't hungry but I sure could've ate a sub. I think it gets a bit better with time. I am on soft foods now so I will be looking for something to crunch. Best thing I have found is don'****ch regular TV, watch movies instead. It helps a bit. I do sypathize, cause I have the same problem. I wish you luck! Sheryl Open RNY 11/20/06 344/287/150