Hunger Poll
Like at movie theaters : last weekend I took my mother and her friend to a movie:
we had lunch first so I know I was not hungry : but I wanted popcorn so bad- it had to
be headhunger - and NO I DIDN'T GIVE INTO the HEADHUNGER
I do feel both REAL hunger and head hunger. I try to keep tabs on when I have eaten because that is when I will get in to trouble with the real hunger. If I allow myself to get too hungry I tend to eat too fast and not pace my food so I end up consuming too much and then my pouch rebels and sends it back.
The head hunger I am working on battling now .. that is what causes me to nibble and snack out of boredom or the 'need' to grab something from the candy dish down the aisle every time I pass by.
Hugs, Mo
Comparison is the thief of joy!
If we spend our time comparing our life/weight loss/body to others, we totally miss what WE have accomplished. Keep in mind how far you have come and what you can do now that you couldn't do weeks/months/years ago. I hate the expression " It's all good", but in this case it fits! Wherever you are in your journey ... It's ALL good!!!
Right after surgery i would get hunger pains/pangs and it would wake me up at night and nausea would follow. I was shocked and disappointed to feel hunger. I told my surgeon and he prescribed me Prevacid/prilosec to control acid. That helped a lot. Now I only get hungry when I forget to eat and go too long due to NOT being hungry, if that makes sense. LOL I do still get hungry but it is satiated with a small portion now rather than before surgery when I would feel compelled to gorge myself until it went away.
Of course sometimes I still crave certain comfort foods when not hungry, especially if they are right in my view. I confess I ate a few slices of my Mom's moist and delicious pumpkin bread all full of sugar and flour, while i was visiting for Christmas. Thankfully I still lost weight that week. WLS is great!
I confess to being ignorant of your wls procedure!!! I'm not at all familiar with DS, so would you enlighten me?
Will your weight loss slow down and then gradually stop as with rny? With rny, your "wls window" GENERALLY closes at around 18 months out - you can still lose weight, it's just much harder. Up until that point, you can ALMOST eat anything and still lose, due to the malabsorption factor.
I also know that with the band, you get a renewed "window" with each fill, thereby allowing you to continue your weight loss as you get fills.
But what about the DS? If, of course, you don't mind sharing!!!
Thanks,
Tia
Of course I don't mind sharing, silly! Just don't ask me about my sex life, LOL. Well maybe you can ask about that but not here.LOL I didn't know anything about the DS either, until I came to OH. I wasn't even told about it by DVR since he wasn't performing it. The technique required involves much more difficulty than other surgeries, and some surgeons choose not to specialize in performing it. But I'm really glad I did learn about DS, because for me, it is a wonderful fit. I'm lucky Dr. Schweitzer performs all the surgeries and I had the opportunity to compare/contrast before deciding.
About the window...No, well kind of. People with DS don't have a window period measured by months like the RNY patients may have. The more extensive malabsorptive properties of the DS provide longer term weight loss possibilites and research says people with DS lose more and keep off more of their excess weight and diabetes is put into remission at a higher percent than other surgeries, in most cases studied. There are always exceptions. DS allows people to lose excess weight to the point of getting rid of all excess weight in several people on OH, but eventually the weight stabilizes and/or the people have to eat carbs to keep weight on. Such torture, LOL.
I know the surgeons say this is true about RNY with the window, and that the body adjusts, but I'm confused at the idea that anyone whose intestines have been re-routed whether a little or a lot, would stop having that malabsorption as a means to help maintain weight loss over time. Where does the malabsorption go? The intestines are still rearranged. Confusing . Maybe because the restriction is lessened the weight loss slows, as the stomach grows. LOL that rhymes.
Some people with RNY go back to the surgeon and get more restriction again, by getting a fobi pouch ,a permanent clamping device placed on the pouch that doesn't stretch, or the new stomaphyx where the surgeon stiches darts in the pouch to counteract the stretching that occurred. I think the stomaphyx is great because they go in through the esophagus and the surgery is outpatient. Some who have significant regain or no rimprovement in diabetes get revision surgery to DS.
There is one woman in particular, Jillian, on the DS forum who, after several years had gotten off track and regained some, so she has returned to basics and has a new goal to lose 45 lbs. She is doing great by following high protein low carb food plan again.
Here is a nice article about DS by OH click here and one by OH staff Nikki Johnson: click here
I have several links saved in my profile, click here, here, here and here if you or anyone you want to help research WLS would like to read about comparing surgery types and outcomes of weight lost, kept off, and comorbidities resolved. I know this is a long post but I am the type of person who likes to know all the facst before making a big decision, so i saved a lot of info as I went along.
