Hungry 7 days out

Hey December Sleevers,

I had surgery on the 14th and all is going well.  I'm still on liquids til Jan 4th, but I'm learning some interesting soup combinations. I still need to increase my protein intake. Today I'm going to try adding Unjury unflavored protein to my soup. And YES...still sipping and walking and peeing.

But...I'm hungry...it feels like real hunger not just gas.  Anyone else experience this?

Let me know how you like the unjury. I need to increase my protein too.

I also had surgery on the 14th. I haven't felt actual hunger yet but the head hunger has been bad. Sometimes its hard to tell the difference. I feel like, I haven't eaten in three weeks (including two week preop liquid diet), I should be starving! But I'm not starving. Its very strange.

 i was having a similar sensation that i wanted to call hungry... burny, stingy, crampy in my pouch... and i thought it was hunger but realized that between the ketosis & the decreased ghrelin, hunger wasn't a likely canidate.

i saw a post last night about a similar complaint.   someone suggested it was heartburn so when i felt that pesky "??hungry??" i chomped 2 tums to smithereens (ok per my doc's discharge instructions) & suddenly my "hunger" was gone... i guess it's just my stomach acid trying to figure out what in tarnation happened last week!  

~kris

I feel hunger. But I realize actual hunger makes the tummy feel very empty, sometimes rumbles. I try to make sure it is hunger and not head hunger or thirst. Being thirsty feels like hunger.

I do take 40 mg Prilosec for Acid reflux.

I do eat more according to a schedule than relying on hunger to guide my eating since that has not no t been very reliable for me.