Guest guest Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 ----- Original Message ----- > How does changing the way you think erase actual physical hunger from a pouch > that doesn't stay filled? ********** I'll try to field this one... Although, as I said in an earlier post, I am still in the " honeymoon phase, " I do feel physical hunger, at pretty much appropriate times. For me, the biggest difference between physical hunger and head hunger is that I can be physically hungry, notice it, and either eat or not. If I have to wait an hour or so, it's no big deal. Head hunger, on the other hand, takes hold of your brain and will not let go until you eat! Right now, I have the advantage of the WLS-effect to modify my brain so that I seldom, if ever, get the head hunger. I am hoping that by making deliberate good choices NOW, while I have that help, I can retrain my thinking to overcome the head hunger later, when the WLS-effect wears off. I don't know if I'll be able to do it, but I hope so. Physical hunger, though, will surely not require retraining. Pre-WLS, I can remember only a few occasions of feeling true physical hunger, because I ate so often I almost never experienced it. So, I don't think we need to worry about physical hunger - at least, I don't think *I* will need to. My experience both before and after WLS has been that P.H. doesn't destroy me. I worry about the head hunger, and I think *that* is the kind of hunger that Sandi has found at least a partial key to, at least for now. I hope that diligence in establishing good habits now will give me enough of what it takes to retrain my own brain to the same extent Sandi has done with hers. Time will tell... --- Start weight 365# Lap RnY, Distal - Dr. s Vanderbilt University Hospital Surgery date June 3, 2002 Current weight 199.5#! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 In a message dated 7/30/2003 5:18:07 PM Central Daylight Time, basswood@... writes: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > >How does changing the way you think erase actual physical hunger from a > pouch > >that doesn't stay filled? > ********** > > I'll try to field this one... > > I do feel physical hunger, at pretty much appropriate times. For me, the > biggest difference between physical hunger and head hunger is that I can be > physically hungry, notice it, and either eat or not. If I have to wait an > hour or so, it's no big deal. > > Head hunger, on the other hand, takes hold of your brain and will not let go > until you eat! Right now, I have the advantage of the WLS-effect to modify > my brain so that I seldom, if ever, get the head hunger. I hope that > diligence in establishing good habits now will give me enough of what it takes to > retrain my own brain to the same extent Sandi has done with hers. Time will > tell... ----------------------------------------- Well, my point exactly. You have a functional pouch, obviously, to help you with that. I do not. Carol A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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