Question:
Will I ever get an appetite?

Why arent I eating more than 2-3 ounces of food a day? Usually once a day. Im so not hungry, and the nutritionist says that I can adapt to 800-1000 calories per day at 4 weeks out? Normal? I put down the soft food ok (the first bite of anything sucks) but anything of more consistency just feels like crap after the first bite. I like the crunchy things, but even a baby carrot isnt working. Ok so I have a chip here and there, b/c at this rate Im not worried about the loss, Im worried about my body. Will I ever be able to eat anything normal like again? =) Having one of those moments. Thanks....    — Rachel *. (posted on December 18, 2001)

December 18, 2001
I was like you early on. Didnt care if I ate at all, and once went several days without eating a bite. Jen was in the hospital and I was distracted and worried about her. About month 3 my appetite returned in a small way and I began enjoying eating again. Sometimes I long for thoe never hungry days. Try to eat enough now and just give it time, it will get better.
   — bob-haller

December 18, 2001
I was the same, too. Don't remember just when I started getting an appetite back, but I did. As hard as is to imagine now, you will go back to a more normal way of eating eventually. Not like the old days, thankfully, but "more" normally. I almost think I get hungrier now than before & I think maybe that's because now when I get hungry, my body REALLY is hungry as compared to just appetite. In the "old" days, I never really went long enough without eating to get real hunger. I still find that sometimes, if I'm really busy or distracted that I have forgotten to eat, but usually, the ole hunger will kick in. I, too, find myself kind of missing those old, no hunger days.
   — Kathy W.

December 19, 2001
I had open RNY. I did not really have much of an appetite until about 6 weeks after. It will probably come to you. At 9 weeks, I have an appetite . . . although it is so much less than before surgery . . . not that I am complaining.
   — [Anonymous]