Question:
Can you suggest an appetite suppressant - 1 year post Gastric By-Pass

I am 1 year post op form gastric bypass. Thinking of trying an appetite suppressant. Any suggestions? Do you know anything about tenuate?    — dresnick (posted on April 22, 2009)

April 23, 2009
When I feel hungry I may drink warm Green tea to help me or I eat some raw vegies to satisfy real hunger pangs if I am not due to eat a meal or planned snack (I eat 5-6 times a day anyway, because I cannot and do not want to stretch my pouch by cramming my average maintanence of 1800 calories a day into 3 meals)...And not eating any simple carbs helps control my appetite tremendously...Staying busy as well. As far as pills and magic formulas...They didn't work pre op and I doubt they work post op. I have learned to welcome a little hunger...If I feel it for more than 30 minutes I know I am genuinely hungry (not head hunger) and so I eat til I no longer feel those pangs...I stop as soon as I feel satiated, not full! It usually holds me for 3 hours if I choose a good snack or meal of complex carbs and protein...Simple carbs just make me hungry in 30 minutes...Do some reading about glycemic index and try eating lower glycemic foods as an appetite suppressant! I'm serious! Wouldn't you rather control your hunger with food than with who knows what "herbs" and drugs as dependancy for help? I would! This is forever....and if you learn the way food works in your body, you can control everything with a little disapline and some minor changes! Good luck! I hope that helped in some way...I just really think that we should stick together and before trying all the old diet fads and pills and crap...we should try harder to depend on ourselves (not diet aids) and make the right changes thru knowledge of food and nutrition and how our bodies work...That along with our awesome WLS tool...is the best diet aid that TRULY works in the long haul...Just a suggestion...
   — .Anita R.