Feeling hungry?

OK, I am a little over 2 weeks out from RNY - and I had read/been told that for the first 6 months I would likely not feel hungry and would have to remind myself to eat.  Not my experience -Admittedly the hunger is not the same - but if I don't eat a little something every 2-3 hours I start to feel really, really crummy - weak and distracted, and I have even had my stomach gurgle.  I am never feeling famished like before surgery and I do not feel deprived, thankfully - and though I might be tempted to take an extra bite or two I am not tempted to eat more than about 4 oz...

Is this similar to others' experiences?  Does this mean that when the "honeymoon period" is over I will start feeling famished/deprived like before?  I had hoped that would be gone forever...

Congratulations on your surgery and the beginning of your journey  Our biggest challenge is to learn the difference between real hunger and head hunger.  Here is a link of several posts where members were discussing this very issue.  It may help you.

http://www.obesityhelp.com/search/action,search_oh/?q=head+h unger&cx=000946886326336472648%3Ae-vpeg4uyxw&cof=FORID%3A9

 

Please keep us posted on your progress!

2 weeks out and you can eat 4 oz? it is solid - like dense type food or or liquid? 

at 2 weeks out I was on a full liquid diet... 

As for hunger - you never know how it is going to be... on;y time will tell. 

Pureed/smooth - not solid yet. And by "a little over 2 weeks" I meant 19 days, so closer to 3 weeks I guess technically.  4 oz of yogurt is the max, 3 is more comfortable -

Not everyone is the same. Some feel ginger right off the bay, others don't feel it for a few months and some never feel hunger, or at least not like before.

At two weeks I was eating 1/4 cup of soft food, like yogurt or cottage cheese.

You may not feel that full signal like before cause your nerves have been cut. That's why they have you measure.

And the gurgling...the lovely noises our pouches make. I think almost everyone gets that. My made the weirdest noises. It took a while to get used to cause usually those sounds meant I was hungry. Now it's just your pouch talking.

As H.a.l.a. asked, are you eating 4 ounces of solid food or solid liquids?  If it's food, that is way too much.  Nowhere have I ever read or was told that your hunger would be gone forever.  If you went into this surgery with that hope now you will surely be very disappointed.  What kind of program or paper work did your surgeon give you for what to expect the next year?  The pouch as you know is only a tool and  hunger can and does return for most people.  At the end of your malabsoprtion you will be back to square one in having to watch your caloric intake just like you did before surgery. Now, in this time period it's up to you to develop the habits on how to eat right and hopefully by the time malabsorption stops you have a grasp on your eating.  Yes, having a pouch helps but anyone can eat around a WLS and gain alot of weight back.  So in this time,  be spending as much as you can researching and learning about this surgery. Alot of this should have been researched BEFORE undertaking this life changing surgery by everyone.  

You are just 2 weeks in and if you are having problems with eating too much, you will want to contact your surgeon, NUT or dietician. (even though surgeons are only cutters and they can't fix your brain which is where you have to resolve your eating issues). 

I wish you the best and continue to post and ask a ton of questions.  Jane

I was well-schooled - I promise.  And I should have clarified that the 4 oz is liquids/pureed, not on solids yet.  Honestly I am kind of relieved to feel when I need to eat, I was worried that with my hectic schedule if I didn't have any internal cues I would end up malnourished.  I am just surprised I can feel anything, at least from many of the post-ops I have talked with that doesn't always happen - and I was wondering if my experience is similar to anyone else.. I don't know what implications (if any) this will have when I get further along - past the mystical "honeymoon stage"

You might want to actively track your blood sugar. Mine was dropping precipitously and making me feel oddly.