love and a question!

hi maintenance folks!

first of all -- i love you!!!  it's so fun to come over here and see discussions of things that i'm doing and shouldn't be and that some of you guys catch yourselves doing too -- instant guilt reducer.  i'm sort of betwixt and between since i'm still losing/trying to lose (!) but no longer a honeymoon period newbie!

i've been posting the faqs reqularly and i had a question from a new person that i haven't figured out how to answer:  does anyone know of a source that addresses the phenomenon of getting hungry after WLS??  i know for a fact that this is not just acid, b/c i have the same issue.  i fill up just fine and stay full, but i do get hungry before i eat -- i'm not one of those "i have to set my phone to tell me to eat" people.  i'd love to help this person out!

thanks guys!!!  will be hanging around a little more for a while.  you know you're in trouble when it's only been 7 mos and you're starting to feel like an old lady on the main board!  ((((hugs))))

Hey girlie.

Contrary to popular rumor :} the part of the stomach removed is not the *only* place where ghrelin is made.  I guess I figure we all produced it at different rates, some folks were not insanely hungry all the time.  I was, so I guess I just figure, having most of my production place removed only made it so I get regular amounts, instead of the crazy amounts.

I never lost my hunger either.  Eating on a schedule so that I do not get too hungry, and making choices that keep me full for longest are my saving graces.

Edit to add, I think Dr. Alvarez did a video about still getting hungry after the sleeve, which would be on his youtube channel, if you wanted to point them over there.

I never got a chance to watch it, so I am not sure what he has to say about it.

Thanks doll!!!  Love ewe!!!!     (just like that emoticon!)

 Hi Ann!

I think you are still in your honeymoon period, at 7 months I expect you will get more capacity and I don't think it is helpful if this ends up taking you by surprise.

I had hunger ONE WEEK post-op - real hunger, that's what it was. I just felt full after very very little. 1 sip of broth, I think.

it's been the same for 3 years, I can and do eat more but I still get full on less food than I did as a pre-op, when eating dense protein, anyway. now crackers I can eat all afternoon long, whole box of ritz!  so I just don't start with them.

hugs back!

Jackie

I never lost my hunger either, though it was definitely reduced (and still is, 4 years later) and I'm certainly satisfied with less...

Lizanne

I've never lost my hunger either.  Most of the time I only stay full for 1 to 2 hours unfortunately.

well i pretty much lost all hunger for a number of months after surgery and then it slowly returned but at much lower and much more appropriate levels. these days i do get hungry more often - doctor says the stomachs of vsg patients do empty out faster, but it is a managable hunger that doesn't make me want to stuff and stuff and it certainly takes much less to satisfy. I feel like I have more what normal hunger should be like but milder. diane

Ditto, I get hungry.  my no hunger phase only lasted a month or so.  Like others have said, at least it seems to be a normal hunger level.  I think I must have had an over production of grehlin before surgery because I would get so hungry that I could eat anything as long as it didn't eat me first (Homer Simpson here).

And  by the way, at 7 months out, you belong over here on the maint board.  You don't have to be at goal to be here.  I tiptoed in here at 6 months because I could not take the main VSG board anymore.  Welcome!

I think my lack of hunger lasted for a month.  I sometime wonder if it's because I have a 40f, not because it's bigger but because perhaps maybe less of the ghrelin production center was removed than people with smaller Sleeves.   I get jealous when people say that they have to remind themselves to eat.  Just not my story.  That said, 4 oz of meat and some veggies and I'm pretty full and good to go for a few hours.  It's always tough to differentiate between stomach and head hunger when not much time has passed between meals.  I do get hungry sooner if my last meal wasn't protein packed.