I love hunger!

it's amazing to me how different everyone's experiences are.

do you enjoy eating, though? 

I had hunger at one week out, but after one sip of broth I felt FULL.

Not really unless it's EXCEPTIONAL but now it's just more or less food.

Ms. Shell,  I do get hungry, but when I eat mostly all protein and higher calories, I stay full much longer.  Last week I realized that I was feel snarky and slightly headachey.  When I looked at the time, I realized that it had been almost 8 hours since I'd eaten.  My first meal of the day was bacon and eggs and it just kept me fueled for a long time.   Interesting that I'm not the only one that feels irritated when hungry.

Isn't it a trip?  I eat on a schedule mainly at work so I only experience this on the weekends when I'm busy and running but boy I learned QUICKLY to make sure I have a snack with me.

Ms Shell

This is a very interesting topic.  Before surgery I was hungry all the time.  I mean from the moment I woke up to the end of the evening I was hungry.  The VSG made it much easier.  For the first year I felt no hunger at all and this made me feel free for the first time in my life.  Now I have hunger but it is much reduced and I can stop and think about what I want to put in my mouth before eating the first thing I see.  Hunger made me emotional and unreasonable before.  I would pick fights with my husband if he wanted to eat a healthy dinner and not some junky carbs.  Now I am in control.  It has really hanged my life. 

that sounds like how it's supposed to work.

but when you are hungry, do you experience it as unpleasant? or, do you find that food tastes better when you are hungry?

are those the only two options, I'm more confused than when I started this thread.

You know I never really thought about it like that.  Before the surgery I hated my hunger.  I thought it was the warden that kept me in the obese prison.  I did not have one single good thing to say about it.  It was the enemy.  Now after the VSG, I don't mind the hunger at all.  Food does taste better when I am hungry and I am beginning to not be so afraid of it.  It is still a tenuous relationship as I am so used to hating and fearing it.  I think with time I might learn to live in peace with it and maybe even trust it.  I can even envision the possibility later on of learning to like it.  I think my relationship with hunger will always be a bit complex due to our history but with time we can maybe be friends again.  Thank you for making me think about this.

Yes, hunger is not meant to be a pleasant feeling. If it was, people would not be nagged by it until they eat something. They would say, "oh hey, what a cool feeling! If I eat, it will go away and I sure don't want that to happen!"

See? That is how it is supposed to work. It's meant to trigger us, nag at us, until we eat something. Take all the people who diet by drastically reducing calories, are hungry all the time, and stop dieting because they can't deal with being hungry all day. If hunger was pleasant, people would be super successful at dieting.

Hunger is not some evil entity forcing me to be fat. I dont fear hunger, or worry about being hungry. But hunger pangs are annoying and make me feel nauseous, and I eat so that I don't feel that way anymore. Food does taste better when I'm hungry. Again, that's how it's supposed to work. Our bodies want us to enjoy eating so that we stay nourished. And when we aren't nourished, it wants us to be uncomfortable so that we do something about it.

I honestly have never heard in my entire life someone say they love hunger. I see what you are saying, but for most "normal" people (who have a healthy relationship with food), hunger is not desireable.

(I just asked my husband who is a normie if he likes feeling hungry and he said, "No, I can't say that I do. Why would anybody like feeling hungry?")

I thought about this a bunch more and remembered about 20 years ago my Aunt got all cranky because she was hungry and the friend we were with who was driving kept not stopping for lunch. she said later, of course I was cranky, I was hungry.

I never wait long enough to get that hungery is what's happening. when I get just a little bit hungry, then I eat.

I am glad to get hungry, then it's time to eat.

That is interesting because I do get the CRANKY but I don't get the pre-hungry part!!  It can be very dangerous if someone is irritating me and I haven't eaten.