| Hungry after surgery?
Well once you have surgery the first month you have a lot of "head hunger", where you crave all kinds of foods you really can't have during that time. In a way I think it must be like a drug addict withdrawing from their drug of choice but with a lot less pain. Once you deal with that and know the difference between real hunger and head hunger it really isn't bad. When I'm hungry like breakfast I can eat a thing of yogurt for lunch I have soup or maybe some tuna and for dinner i have some chicken. I really am full after probably 1/2 cup of food. If I crave a snack I have something high in protein like cottage cheese. It is a life style change but after 1 month I was able to make the changes I needed to and not feel deprieved and just watch the weight fall off.
Now I do hear once you are about 2 years out of surgery things can sometimes be harder because by then you aren't really losing weight just trying to maintain. Your stomach pouch will stretch out a little by this time too (but not nearly close to the size of orginial stomach). Most people do gain some weight at this point the average is about 25% of the weight they loss might come back but I'm willing to live with that it is 100x better then where I was.  | 
