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Originally Posted by jeffcobb
Hunger is a funny thing. Before the surgery it was the enemy, the nemesis. Now? Well they speculate the surgery changes you in ways they don't understand. In my case it absolutely did away with hunger. For life. In all honesty I have not been hungry since 2005. Not once. No matter how long its been since I ate last, what I had, whatever. Sometimes I remember being hungry, what that was like; sometimes I might smell a piece of meat cooking on the grill and I remember that it should taste good. If I go too long w/o eating I eventually feel kind of "run down" but no actual hunger. In truth, I don't miss it. Its kind of like sleep; if you didn't need it, I mean really and truly did not need it, imagine what you could do with your life? Never going to happen, I know but while I miss the social aspects of eating and as a chef I miss that part but I don't miss much of the rest.
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I've heard that the surgery does, sometimes, just do away with hunger altogether. Which would be nice! But it doesn't apparently always have that effect. I know at least two people who had the surgery, lost weight and then regained. One of them gained it all back, plus more, the other realized that she STILL had to watch what she ate and reined it back and started losing again.
I also have a friend for whom the surgery worked... only now that she has a serious cancer, she's having trouble getting her body enough of the nutrients she needs to fight it. I'm also dubious as to whether the surgery would help those who have emotional eating problems, because that's a mental kind of hunger.
At any rate, it surely works for some folks, but not all. I'll take the long road and leave my digestion system as nature intended it, rather than take the chance it would not work for me, aside from the issue of possible complications.
Last night it was tempting to go out after the movie hubby and I went to and get a treat, something we have often done in the past, but we both agreed that we had plenty of good stuff to eat at home and that's what we did. Hubby picked up a brand new, just out ebook this week as his reward!