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Hunger

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Hello All:
I had my surgery 11 weeks ago. I have lost 65 pounds and feel really good. I just wonder if any of you have experienced days you are hungry all day? And then the next day you can't eat anything. For example this past Saturday, I ate little pieces of food all day. I was truly hungry. Since Saturday I have not been hungry again. It is Monday and I feel like I have to just put something in every 5 or 6 hours. Is it that I stay full longer and that is why I am not hungry for a couple of days after I eat a good amount of food? I am not concerned that I am eating to much, I am just wondering if this happens to other people. I don't feel like I am overeating when I am hungry.
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It sounds more like head hunger than real hunger. Just make sure that you are eating small portions of high protein, low calorie foods when the munchies hit. Eating every 5-6 hours is not unreasonable.
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Yeah, I am sure that it is real hunger. I eat such small portions, that some days I think it catches up with me.
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it sounds like you are behaving like a 'normal' person!!! so don't worry, listen to your body, the more you do the better you will get at listening to it! To me you're doing fine, especially when you say you try to eat something every 5-6 hours when not hungry, a little something here and there is good, just to fuel your body.
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Thanks to this group, I now know that I am not the only one that has felt hunger -- real, intense, physical hunger fromt he beginning. I try to drink when it's only been 1.5 hours since I ate last and that helps. But, I am hungry all the time. Lorraine
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Lori326:
Do you feel hunger all of the time? I will feel it one day and eat a little every hour and then I will not be hungry at all for a couple of days after. Is that something you are experiencing also?
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