How hungry do you feel each day?

[diner 0]

I am new; planning on surgery within 2 months. How hungry do you feel once you are after 3 months out? Does the surgery diminush hunger, or do you feel hungrier than ever with 1200 or less calories?

[Fanny Adams 7]

It changes depending on where you are in the healing process and whether or not you have found your sweetspot with the fills. At the moment for me (I'm just over 5 months out and had a fill 5 days ago), the hunger is almost non-existant. The week before my fill, I was starting to get quite hungry between meals again. Most of the time, the band is keeping its promise to me and is definitely controlling the hunger - the degree of that control does change with fill levels, but it has never been the uncontrollable urge that it was before banding.

[Jachut 487]

It diminishes hunger. I get physically hungry but I could never have survived on what I eat now and that's generous - I still eat about 1500 to 1800 calories most days.

[Bozzj 0]

it reduces hunger, but i'm only 5 weeks out (no fill yet) and i'm hungry some days. i have more of an issue with "head hunger"

[princesstracey 1]

I was banded 5 months ago tomorrow.

I was absoutely addicted to food before the surgery. I am almost never hungry. I never think about food anymore...its a necessity now. I eat 4-5 small meals a day (like 1/8 cup each meal.)

Good luck!

[Hastings 3]

I'm never really hungry, but today I made an interesting decision.

At the bakery in the grocery store they were handing out freshly baked Cookies. I turned it down cause I wouldn't have room for my crab salad if I ate a cookie. That's gotta be a big first for me.