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Congrats on your good work so far.
In addition to strongly seconding everything Pam said (no surprise there, eh?)...
One of the pieces of advice that barix gives (and that I've found to be a good reminder) is that your goal should NEVER be to "feel full." Your goal should be to just barely feel satisfied. And that's only months from now after your nerve endings have grown back and you can actually feel things in your stomach.
The reason, which makes total sense to me, is that in our past lives, we were used to stuffing ourselves well past "normal" fullness. Our perception of fullness is therefore distorted, so we need to retrain ourselves to understand that our sensation of "full" is actually OVERfull. If we want our new pouches to not become as stretched out as our old stomachs, we need to work on eating by measurement, not by fullness sensations.
At this point in your recovery, any hunger you're feeling is "head hunger" (it's the conditioned response you've "taught" yourself to feel in response to certain triggers ... like commercials on tv, smells, boredom, habits, etc.). Nerves literally take months to regenerate and they were cut during your surgery, so it's not possible for them to be sending any type of reliable or believable signals to your brain yet. Use this gift to allow yourself to retrain your brain aroudn healthy eating and portions without the driving force of "hunger pains."
Hope this helps!
karen
In addition to strongly seconding everything Pam said (no surprise there, eh?)...
One of the pieces of advice that barix gives (and that I've found to be a good reminder) is that your goal should NEVER be to "feel full." Your goal should be to just barely feel satisfied. And that's only months from now after your nerve endings have grown back and you can actually feel things in your stomach.
The reason, which makes total sense to me, is that in our past lives, we were used to stuffing ourselves well past "normal" fullness. Our perception of fullness is therefore distorted, so we need to retrain ourselves to understand that our sensation of "full" is actually OVERfull. If we want our new pouches to not become as stretched out as our old stomachs, we need to work on eating by measurement, not by fullness sensations.
At this point in your recovery, any hunger you're feeling is "head hunger" (it's the conditioned response you've "taught" yourself to feel in response to certain triggers ... like commercials on tv, smells, boredom, habits, etc.). Nerves literally take months to regenerate and they were cut during your surgery, so it's not possible for them to be sending any type of reliable or believable signals to your brain yet. Use this gift to allow yourself to retrain your brain aroudn healthy eating and portions without the driving force of "hunger pains."
Hope this helps!
karen
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