HomeBreaking WLS NewsWLS Success: Separating Head Hunger from Physical Hunger Editor November 20, 2011 Breaking WLS News, Life After WLS 2 Comments 2 Responses Bonnie Giles November 21, 2011 Clearly you are NOT a weight loss surgery patient yourself. Every WLS patient knows not to wait until they are as hungry as you profess to eat. Dumb. Your explanation of head hunger is accurate, but if you are advocating your patients wait until they feel that much of a hunger signal than you are doing them a disservice. Bonnie Giles Lap-Band patient since 2008 Bariatric Style April 24, 2012 Bonnie, I don’t think Chrystyna Senkel was advocating that we wait until we are that hungry, as much as she was trying to explain the difference between actual physical hunger and “head” hunger. This was something that surprised me after my surgery. I realized I did not really know what it actually meant to be physically hungry as compared to eating from boredom or depression or celebration, or all the other reasons we eat that have nothing what so ever to do with actually being hungry. I had to learn to tell the difference in not only head hunger vs physical hunger but also the difference between being empty and actual physical hunger…
Bonnie Giles November 21, 2011 Clearly you are NOT a weight loss surgery patient yourself. Every WLS patient knows not to wait until they are as hungry as you profess to eat. Dumb. Your explanation of head hunger is accurate, but if you are advocating your patients wait until they feel that much of a hunger signal than you are doing them a disservice. Bonnie Giles Lap-Band patient since 2008
Bariatric Style April 24, 2012 Bonnie, I don’t think Chrystyna Senkel was advocating that we wait until we are that hungry, as much as she was trying to explain the difference between actual physical hunger and “head” hunger. This was something that surprised me after my surgery. I realized I did not really know what it actually meant to be physically hungry as compared to eating from boredom or depression or celebration, or all the other reasons we eat that have nothing what so ever to do with actually being hungry. I had to learn to tell the difference in not only head hunger vs physical hunger but also the difference between being empty and actual physical hunger…
