5 Tips............
Like one of the posters above said, I'm not far enough out to have many tips, but I do have some observations and confirmations about some of yours to offer. The tip about keeping the jejunum full of water rings true with me. I can be still slightly dis-satisfied after a meal and pre-op I would've finished up with a 20 oz coke or a big glass of chocolate milk or some ice cream or something to kind of fill in the "empty spots". Now I make myself wait 30 minutes and start drinking water or Crystal Light and half a liter to a liter later, I'm as happy as a pig in **** on a summer afternoon. Tha****er had to have washed any remaining food through my pouch, so that feeling of saity isn't coming from the pouch but from the jejunum. Makes perfectly good sense.
Here's another thing that helps me. And I knew this pre-op because of my experiences with earlier dieting but over the last 10 year or so I had gotten to lazy to use this tool. I've put it back in my tool box post-op though. And that is to "walk off" hunger pains. If they're severe and legitimate hunger pains, then this won't work. But quite frequently I'll eat supper around 7:00 and by 8:00 I have a gnawing discomfort. An incrediblly well honed, deep-rooted urge to go check for something in the refridgerator. If instead, I go put on my walking shoes and get my ass out on the street for 30 minutes, then by the time I get back in that gnawing discomfort and it's accompanying urge has left me. I don't know what goes on physiologically or psychologically to bury it, but I suspect it has something to do with exercise changing blood chemistry in some way. By 10:00 or 10:30 when I'm ready to go to bed, if the urge has reappeared, I sometimes drink a cup of 1% and it satisfies it enough to get me to sleep.
That little boy inside our head that talked us into being obese never dies does he? He has to have his ass re-kicked on a daily basis.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking....... If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
Since we're sharing funny tips here's one of the extreme ones that work flawlessly.
My mother used to keep a bottle of eye-glass cleaner in her purse to keep her specks perfect. When eating out, once she had that initial "I'm done" thought, she'd pull out her cleaner and spray down the plate. This kept her from picking through the rest of the meal...I mean, who wants to eat windex-salad?
Crazy, and doggie-bagless, but effective none-the-less.
My mother used to keep a bottle of eye-glass cleaner in her purse to keep her specks perfect. When eating out, once she had that initial "I'm done" thought, she'd pull out her cleaner and spray down the plate. This kept her from picking through the rest of the meal...I mean, who wants to eat windex-salad?
Crazy, and doggie-bagless, but effective none-the-less.
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