To eat, or not to eat?

ShoreToLose
on 5/25/17 5:26 am - Brick, NJ

Should I force myself to eat even after I get my protein requirements? I feel like I should be eating something even though I'm not hungry.


    
1st Goal: 190 lbs. - Achieved 8/3/2010
2nd: Goal: 165 lbs. - `Achieved 11/2/2010
Erin T.
on 5/25/17 5:41 am
VSG on 01/17/17

No. Not if you get in your protein requirements. I do try to spread mine out throughout the day so that I have normal meals, just to form good habits.

VSG: 1/17/17

5'7" HW: 283 SW: 229 CW: 135-140 GW: 145

Pre-op: 53 M1: 22 M2: 12 M3: 12 M4: 8 M5: 10 M6: 11 M7: 5 M8: 6 M9-M13: 15-ish

LBL/BL w/ Fat Transfer 1/29/18

Laura in Texas
on 5/25/17 5:46 am

No. You just had a revision. You need to learn good eating habits this time or you won't get to goal and stay there. Revisions are not magic and "starvation mode" is a myth.

Laura in Texas

53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)

RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis

brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco

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CerealKiller Kat71
on 5/25/17 6:34 am
RNY on 12/31/13

Why on earth would you eat if you aren't hungry and have met your nutrition requirements? No way!

"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat

Gwen M.
on 5/25/17 6:46 am
VSG on 03/13/14

Nope.

Unless you are actually underweight, you shouldn't force yourself to eat if you have met your protein goals and aren't hungry.

VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)

Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170

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Grim_Traveller
on 5/25/17 7:06 am
RNY on 08/21/12

You need your minimum of protein, fats, and vitamins/minerals. Everything else is just wasted calories that could keep you from ever losing all your excess weight.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

Mary Gee
on 5/25/17 11:24 am - AZ
VSG on 05/14/14

Why would you think of eating if you met your protein goals and are not hungry?

Do that and you won't reach your goal. Spread out your protein so you're eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

       

 HW: 380 SW: 324 GW: 175  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NotOldMomma
on 5/25/17 4:39 pm

lol you're so lucky! PLEASE Lord, let that be my dilemma post op lol I mean unless you're like sick and losing too much or whatever, if that's the case, call your doctor!

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