I feel like my surgery didn't work

I'm 5 weeks out today and have lost 25lbs since surgery.  But I have been following the plan and measuring my food.  The issue is I'm starving.  It's not head hunger because I never get to the point where I feel any restriction.  I can drink water like a champ and eat 4 oz of cottage cheese and not feel full.  I have my six week visit on the 10th.  Of course I'll tell my dr all this.  I just feel so defeated, like I went through the surgery for nothing.   I had a gastric pliation because my sleeve had stretched and I just don't think it fixed it.  

I dont have much advice about the hunger, but I just wanted to say that 25 lbs in 5 weeks is pretty amazing! Could you have done that before the surgery? Thats 5 lbs per week! What stage of your diet are you on? Are you allowed to eat meat? If so, maybe the 'denser' protien will fill you up more than protein from, say, cottage cheese. It's great that you're getting all your water in though!

On e I had the mind set that I was following the diet and I had endured 3 weeks of liquid diet I felt like I can mentally stick to the plan for a while.  I just need the surgery to kick in to help!  I'm still on soft foods for another week.  

25 pounds in five weeks is awesome. Hopefully all is well.

Restriction doesn't kick in until you start eating solid food.

Jane

25 pounds is still 25 you didn't have!  :-)  I find when I have my 4 oz of cottage cheese that it does not soften any hunger. What works best for me to keep it away is the Premier Protein shakes. 4 oz is about 10 grams of protein, which is more than the cottage cheese.  I know they sell Premier at Costco, but I don't know if they sell elsewhere. Maybe you just need a couple of grams more of protein when you eat?  Good luck!

You won't feel restriction right now while you are not eating dense protein. Also, PLEASE remember that nerves in your stomach were severed during surgery, so you will NOT feel fulness until those nerves heal. Do not continue eating in an attempt to feel over-fulness. You said that you are a revision because your sleeve had stretched? Did you eat to over-fulness with the first surgery? Respectfully, LOVINGLY, I suggest that you speak to a therapist. The NEED to feel full is in our heads and is something that a therapist can help you work through. In all honesty, the best way to have success with your sleeve is to "under eat" it (i.e. NEVER feel over-full). If you feel that you are only truly satisfied at meals when you feel full, you are dancing on a slippery slope that can potentially lead to another stretched out sleeve. All of the revisions in the world cannot fix the things that go on in our heads.

Please take care of yourself. 25 pounds in 5 weeks is AWESOME. Could any of us have lost 5 pounds a week before surgery?? I KNOW I couldn't have!

My thoughts exactly. I too tripped out that I could eat in the beginning. But whoa!! About 3 mos out that all changed. 

And I was told exactly that, the stomach nerves were severed in surgery. Makes sense. 

it might not be hunger your feeling it might be acid , many people cofuse it for hunger , you need a ppi if your not on one or need the dose changed if you are on on 

 at 5 weeks I was on solid food , and a peice of fish or chicken keep me full for 4 hours or so , cottage chesse is like a slider food and goes right thru 

check your plan and see when you can start solid food

25 lb is great

25 pounds is AWESOMESAUCE as my kiddos would say.  Is the gastric plication surgery where they "fold" the stomach and stitch it? 

I felt like that initially when I ate cottage cheese.  When I ate cottage cheese plain, it never "stuck with me".  It's a slider food, just like yogurt.  Finally, I started mixing Protein Powder in to it and that seemed to make it "linger longer" in my tummy.  I was only allowed to eat 2oz of cottage cheese at a time though when I was on soft foods.  I didn't feel any restriction until I started eating dense protein.  I am just starting 4 months out and can just now eat 1 1/2-2 oz of chicken or turkey.  It stays forever.  Now, if I eat 3 oz of yogurt/cottage cheese (which my plan calls for), it's gone within an hour.  So, I don't eat it very often. 

Stick with the plan your Dr. has you on.  Don't compare it with what other were able to eat at such and such time.  The Dr obviously wants you eating the plan they has you on for a specific reason.   It will all come together eventually.