Hungry all of the time

Lately I've been like a bottomless pit. I measure my food which is usually like 3 oz of protein or half cup. I don't really get satisfied and it seems like 15 moms later I'm hungry again. I have been drinking tons of water to try and satisfy it but I'm still hungry. Also been hit with the late night munchies. Just looking for some advice. I'm afraid I'm stretching my stomach even though I know it will stretch over time but I'm just 7 months out. I'm just not really sure if I should be able to eat more than I'm eating or what. So stressed about it

I'm feeling the same way. I'm eating 4 oz at a time before I feel full. What's up with this?

Who knowss!! It's stressing me out though which I think adds to the hungry all of the time stress eating issue! Lol

I feel like this too!  And I can eat a lot more at a sitting than I could before.

Maybe you need more than 1/2 cup ? Dense proteins will help also. Eating 1/2 cut of things like yogurt or cottage cheese did not make my pouch full for long. 

Also - not enough fat in diet - may leave you famished. 3 low fat string cheese made me want to eat in 1 hour, but regular 3 cheese sticks - help me stay full longer.  Yesterday I had 5 pcs or crispy bacon for breakfast, it was good and kept me "full" for a while. 

Also adding veggies - low carb, like green beans, cucumber, celery, spinach, lettuce etc. helps fill the void. 

Warm drinks like green tea, herbal teas - help with my hunger more than water. 

What H.A.L.A. said....especially re the dense protein and the fats

 

I eat full fat things....in moderation....helps bowel issues too......

 

Check and see if you can eat 4 oz of dense....grilled chicken or beef......protein......and how long it keeps you full....4 oz of slider protein ( yogurt...cottage cheese etc) wont stay with you as long

 

Also - your pouch is maturing....and you will be able to eat more.....this is where the tricky part begins.....you can eat more and get hungry more often......so it is more critical that you try to fill yourself with mainly dense proteins to keep the calories loww enough for weight loss or maintenance....) depending on your stage of course

Good luck

 

I am 7 months 1/2 months out. My hunger is back too. I found that I had to cut carbs out of my diet. I would be having my 2 to 3 oz of protein with a bite or two of potatoes or a bit of bread with some eggs. Bad idea for me. The carbs made my hunger feel like the bottomless pit that you describe. I changed to a very low carb diet (less than 30 g per day) and added more healthy fats and feel much more satisfied.  As for the being able to eat more, I am right there with you. Sometimes I feel I could eat the side of a barn, but I make sure I keep measuring my food and sure enough, when I get to my usual 3 oz mark of dense protein, I am full and satiated. I wonder if its my old head tricks coming back sometimes (you know the head tricks that try to tell you that you need a mountain of food).

Anyway, if I have learned anything from this journey, it's that the fat girl inside will always be there and I have to just tell her to shut up and make sure I am making good food choices for myself. :-)

Best of luck!

I was a little shocked after surgery when I was never hungry, and asked my surgeon about it. He said it was a hormonal change, similar to the one that made my diabetes disappear overnight. He said the lack of hunger would return in 6-9 months, and he was right. Hunger came back with a vengeance.

It will take a little adjusting to get used to feeling hungry again. That's what makes the habits you learned right after surgery so important. Hang in there.

The other part is, you get a full signal sent to your brain only when you eat enough that your pouch expands, stretching enough for the nerve to send a signal to the brain. That is why dense protein is important. Yogurt will never stretch the pouch, and the full signal never gets sent. Dense protein like chicken will stretch the pouch a little, and you will feel full for a while.

Don't worry, you will not overstretch your pouch, or permanently stretch it, unless you eat wayyy too much, too often. But if you never feel full at this point, and are eating dense protein, maybe you do need to eat a little more.

Over time, you are supposed to be eating more.  Increase your intake a bit with veggies and see if that helps.  Also, you may do better to eat several small meals during the day to keep your blood sugar level.  I eat 6-7 small meals during a day.  Every 2-3 hours I'm eating something....you just have to be sure to account for the total intake over the course of the day, and make wise selections.  This is a typical day for me (remember, I'm almost 5 years out)

5:30 a.m.-B1-2 Nutra grain waffles with 1 tbsp of syrup and butter

8:30 a.m.B2-4 oz grilled chicken, 1/2 banana

11:30 a.m. L-1 can Chunky Healthy request soup, 6 low fat Ritz

2:30 p.m. Snack-1 Chobani yogurt

5:00 p.m. Snack-6 Crunchmaster crackers with 2 oz sliced swiss cheese

5:30-6:30-gym for boot camp or 4 mile run

7:30 p.m. Dinner-4 oz grilled salmon, 1/2 cup corn (or some other veggie)

8:30 p.m. Dessert-1 Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich, or a frozen yogurt cup, or s/f jello

Clearly, you can see that I eat!  and as long as I spread it out, I have no blood sugar issues (reactive hypoglycemia).  So don't panic, over time, you are expected to eat more!  You'd starve to death if you ate the rest of your life the way you eat in the first year after surgery.

It's normal to be able to eat more the farther out you are. Go by what your doctor says you should be eating. My doctor had us eating a bit less than 3/4 cup of food at your stage. At one year we were told to eat not more than one cup at a meal. If we continued to eat only 1/2 cup of food we would not get the nutrition we need.