Is it true when they say you do not feel hunger after??

I was wondering if after your Lap RNY if you ever feel hunger? I was wondering does everyone get the urge to just want to eat and eat..and just keep eating.? well of course you would get sick if you did that...however..you know how we have that craving for foods and we want to binge on food?? Do you still get that feeling???

I fell hunger all the time... I felt it for the first time about 3 weeks after surgery... before the surgery... I never felt it... ever...

 i didnt have lap i had open RNY but... hmm hard to explain...  i did start getting hungry recently 3 months out 23rd..  actuall hunger.. not head hunger/ cravings but my tummy telling me its time to feed it..  before surgery i just ate to be eating/ "cravings" ooo that looks good. yummmm i want some of that etc.. but since surgery it takes so much time an effort an planning every lil thing i put in my mouth..  that i dont have the time/energy for cravings.. i eat when its time to eat.. what im allowed to eat an sometimes dont even think about food till my tummy reminds me what time it is.. i did have like 5 peanut m&m's  i was in car with only water an those were actually hubby's an  i was having a low suger moment.. dizzy weak etc.. an he was like eat a few of these.. i was like noooo i'll get sick.. it will make it worse.. he said ive seen u with low suger before.. eat the damn m&m's llol was so sure that was gona trigger me wanting them constantly but so far havent had any sence..

I had open RNY almost three years ago.  Hunger is almost never a feeling I have.  Low blood sugar happens if I let too much time go between my meals.  Unfortunately, I do get cravings and urges to eat things I am not supposed to, and I do sometimes catch myself grazing.

They operated on my stomach, not my brain, so I must work on my emotional reasons for eating every single day.

Trish

Hunger was non existent for me the first 6 months of surgery..now I am just about a year out and I am not ever really hungry..but I do get that feeling of "oh I should eat now!" 

I am on an eating schedule because it helps me get in all my protein and liquid requirements...I eat approx every two hours and I do try not to eat anything that I am not counting in as part of my "meals"...A meal for me could be a cheese stick and a small yogurt...small meals spread out through out the day help keep me on track.

I have urges and cravings of course!!! Ice cream (NON fat--NO SUGAR ADDED) has been my weakness lately..so I allow myself one small bowl (the bowl is baby sized) at night.  You will have head hunger, you will crave sweets, carbs, salty stuff...but you will never be able to just stuff yourself silly with any of it..

Trish was right they operated on your tummy not on your head--you have to do the work to solve and reconcile your issues with food--We all do--it is why we needed the surgery in the first place...Food will not be able to comfort you the way it does now after surgery so you will need to find a new way of dealing with things...

Being hungry or the lack of feeling hungry isn't going to solve all your issues with food either--this is a very BIG life style change no question about it..you need to be prepared for that too..I wish you all the best in your journey!

Much luv!!
Laura

TRUE hunger....not really for at least a couple of weeks - most say months at the minimum.

Head hunger?  Absoltely.  Just wanting to eat for the sake of eating?  Yup.  Wanting a cheeseburger because you saw a commercial - yuppers.  It's evident days out from surgery...and it gets worse (for me) once real hunger returns.  Because the further out you get the more A) you can eat and B) old habits slip in.  I catch myself grazing often and really need to watch it.

It's a difficult challenging road that has some of the BEST rewards out there.  Sometimes you just got to take it a minute at a time.....

Pam

my husband did not feel hunger for the first year. now he has to be thoughtful of his tendency to graze...

I didn't feel real hunger until almost a year out.  And now, at almost 3 years, I rarely feel it.  It acually surprises me when I do.  Now, head hunger is a different story.....I feel that often.

hg

Most don't, I did, I came out of surgery hungry and stayed hungry until I was able to have full liquids 10 days later.  That first sip of nice thick soup did it for me.  But no matter if your hungry or not, the capacity will not be there.  The idea is to not feel full, just satisfied. 

"you know how we have that craving for foods and we want to binge on food..."

Cravings and feeling a compulsion to binge is mental/emotional.
No stomach procedure in the world will stop that.