Starving.........All of a sudden
Are you still taking a proton pump inhibitor to cut back on stomach acid? Personally, I find that if I don't take my Prilosec regularly it makes me feel hungry.
Age: 44 | Height: 5' 3" | Starting January 2015: 291 | RNY 8/4/15 with Dr. Arthur Carlin| Goal: 150
Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. ~Proverbs 19:20
Yeah I'm at 4 months and it hit me a few weeks back as well. Kind of depressing really. I wanted hunger to stay away forever! Everything would have been easier without that gnawing at my stomach again. It's hard for me to understand why they just can't make it so that is gone forever! Anyways I feel ya. Just keep tracking your food and keep the focus on the prize. Those that never get it back...I am sooo jelly!
Surgeon: Dr. Heydari. Lap-Band to RNY bypass. Surgery June 23, 2015.
I'm almost at four months myself, and it seems lately the hunger ha**** me as well. It's hard to not want to eat bad stuff, those demons love to hold on to you. I am trying to be good. Went to my 4 month post op visit last week, my blood work was fine and I am losing weight faster than they expected. So I going to forge ahead. :)
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrel
I learned this here and I have to learn it over and over again.
Hunger is not an emergency.
Hunger is not an emergency.
Post what your eating and drinking. Carbs will make me hungry. Not drinking enough will make me hungry. "Forgetting" to eat protein will make me hungry. Thinking about that egg roll in the fridge is making me hungry.
It's not an emergency.
Deb
on 10/20/15 12:56 pm - WI
You've learned well, Grasshopper. 
HW 270 SW 236 GW 160 CW 145 (15 pounds below goal!)
VBG Aug. 7, 1986, Revised to RNY Nov. 18, 2010
I too am about four months post-op and have found my hunger has returned, must to my disgust. To add insult to injury for the first time since I began, I'm in a stall losing weight it seems these last five days. That being said I'm staying positive. I've lost about 128 pounds since I started, my three month check up with the doctor and dietician was great.
My blood work all came back normal, no more blood pressure or cholesterol pills. Other than being hungry, I feel great. I walk twice a day and even started back to the gym to do some upper body wieght lifting. I have found My Fitness Pal and logging everything I eat and do very, very helpful. I know I'm eating the right stuff and calories, carb and protein wise I'm in balance. I need to try and drink more water and add more vegetables and will do so.
But the dam hunger. I keep reminding myself the surgery was just a tool and keep working at the process of long term wieght loss. I try to keep reminding myself that this is a marathon, not a sprint and it takes time. Keep working the plan and good things will continue to happen. Good luck to everyone else on this journey!
Referral-November 2014, Orientation Windsor, ON December 2015, Nurse, Dietician, Doctor, Social Worker & Nutrition Class January 2015, Nurse, Dietician & Psych March 2015, Surgery Ed. Class March 2015, Surgeon Consultation May 2015, Surgery June 16, 2015 at Guelph, ON with Dr Pereira-Hong
I started getting hungry at one point. Not head hunger either, I was actually feeling light headed and foggy. I realized that the minnimum amount of protein just wasn't cutting it for me. I now aim for 70 grams of protein a day, and I feel much better.
Height: 5'5" HW: 290 Consultation Weight: 276 SW: 257 CW: 132
