Hungry Increase
The end of this month will be my 6-month surgiversary and I'm beginning to feel hungry frequently. I'd say 30% of it is physical hunger... stomach growling, ache, hunger and the other 70% is head/mough hunger. For me the mouth hunger is what causes me to snack, overeat, and generally mess up.
From what I've heard, it is not normal to gain weight your first year or any year after surgery. If you are at a normal weight now, you should be working (as should we all) to stay there!
What we are told is to weigh every day in the morning, before food, after pee, before clothes. LOL
If the scale is moving up more than a few days in a row then:
1. Starting writing down everything that goes into your mouth.
2. Chart your water intake.
3. Chart your exercise. Writing it all down makes you accountable and gives you the ability to see what you are really doing not just think you might be doing.
4. After a few days, look at what you are really doing and then look at how that is different from when you were losing consistently.
5. Go back to what you were doing when you were losing.
Lose that 6 pounds and stay there.
As for combating the hunger, both real and cravings. This is hard because I'm in the middle of it right now. Make sure your home is only filled with things you are allowed to eat. Get rid of anything else. As Brooke said, time your meals. If you are allowed on your plan to snack, time those too. (My plan does not allow snacks... only three meals a day.) If you have 20 more minutes until you are allowed to eat... just try to tell yourself you can wait 20 minutes and then feel better. In the meantime make yourself something hot to drink. I use hot tea or if I'm really struggling, I'll make a cup of decaf coffee and put 1/2 and 1/2 (2 tablespoons only) in it and some SF flavored syrup. Taking the time to make it takes my mind off the craving and then it takes a while to drink it since it's hot and it's sweet which satisfies me.
Just remember, weight gain is a wake-up call to go back to what you were doing when you were losing. You have to stay on top of it because the most dangerous mindset to have is "it's only a couple of pounds... that won't hurt". It will hurt, because 2.5 pounds a month, in a year and you've gained 125 pounds.
I hope some of this helps. Just know you are not alone and it will always be work but you have come this far, look amazing and you can continue doing what you need to do to maintain your incredible weight loss.
From what I've heard, it is not normal to gain weight your first year or any year after surgery. If you are at a normal weight now, you should be working (as should we all) to stay there!
What we are told is to weigh every day in the morning, before food, after pee, before clothes. LOL
If the scale is moving up more than a few days in a row then:
1. Starting writing down everything that goes into your mouth.
2. Chart your water intake.
3. Chart your exercise. Writing it all down makes you accountable and gives you the ability to see what you are really doing not just think you might be doing.
4. After a few days, look at what you are really doing and then look at how that is different from when you were losing consistently.
5. Go back to what you were doing when you were losing.
Lose that 6 pounds and stay there.
As for combating the hunger, both real and cravings. This is hard because I'm in the middle of it right now. Make sure your home is only filled with things you are allowed to eat. Get rid of anything else. As Brooke said, time your meals. If you are allowed on your plan to snack, time those too. (My plan does not allow snacks... only three meals a day.) If you have 20 more minutes until you are allowed to eat... just try to tell yourself you can wait 20 minutes and then feel better. In the meantime make yourself something hot to drink. I use hot tea or if I'm really struggling, I'll make a cup of decaf coffee and put 1/2 and 1/2 (2 tablespoons only) in it and some SF flavored syrup. Taking the time to make it takes my mind off the craving and then it takes a while to drink it since it's hot and it's sweet which satisfies me.
Just remember, weight gain is a wake-up call to go back to what you were doing when you were losing. You have to stay on top of it because the most dangerous mindset to have is "it's only a couple of pounds... that won't hurt". It will hurt, because 2.5 pounds a month, in a year and you've gained 125 pounds.
I hope some of this helps. Just know you are not alone and it will always be work but you have come this far, look amazing and you can continue doing what you need to do to maintain your incredible weight loss.
"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." -Tuli Kupferberg
I just had my one year and I was told that you can gain a few pounds back after the first year. I know I fluctuate between the same 10 pounds. I "waterload" (drink hard and fast) to help with the hunger. I also break rules and suck on hard candy. I learned back in H.S. that I have an oral fixation and that I have to have something in my mouth. No, it's not sexual. Well, not all the time. It's a Freud thing, so it always ends up sexual with him.
I shall now be know as Hagatha: Queen of the queens. 
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Xavier Elliott born 10-5-10
The honeymoon is over and the marriage is about to begin. Sadly, appetite does come back..not always as strongly as before surgery....not always as often...but it does happen...
About gaining... the losing is easy at first..slower over time...however there comes a time when your body decides where it wants to be verses where we want to be... It is difficult to accept the fact that we can gain weight back..and that we have to watch what we eat..but it is the truth. After one year..it is common to gain back up to 20% of what was lost (usually about 20 pounds)...this is how the body regulates itself...to its accepted weight..
About gaining... the losing is easy at first..slower over time...however there comes a time when your body decides where it wants to be verses where we want to be... It is difficult to accept the fact that we can gain weight back..and that we have to watch what we eat..but it is the truth. After one year..it is common to gain back up to 20% of what was lost (usually about 20 pounds)...this is how the body regulates itself...to its accepted weight..
Daniel Patrick Fluharty, NBCT
Be yourself, nobody can tell you that you are doing it wrong!!
lbryan
on 3/21/09 9:42 am
on 3/21/09 9:42 am
The same thing started to happen with me after my first year. My problem was that I was starting to slip back into a few bad habits. You have to make sure the food you are eating is healthy and especially important is exercise. Once I got myself back on track, the few pounds I gained came off fairly quick.
same thing as everyone else.. I drink water, I drink tea, I try and put as much fluid in me between meals (flavor pouches in my water help) SF popsicles sucked not chewed.
And yes my Bariatric Specialist told me you will gain some back when you are done losing. I was told about 10 pounds.
The honeymoon is over.. And yes we are still us, just a little better educated.
And yes my Bariatric Specialist told me you will gain some back when you are done losing. I was told about 10 pounds.
The honeymoon is over.. And yes we are still us, just a little better educated.
I have found a new way of life that has kept me at Goal since 2008.. And keeping it that way!
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