Still Eating Sweets After a Gastric Sleeve I Thought They Took the Chemical out of Your Stomach?

Hello. Remember that the surgery limits the quantity and the appetite reduce but dosent help with the quality of what you eat.1. Remember your goal, what was is your objective.2. Never look back3. Small Goals. Just live day by day. TODAY I'LL DO MY TRAIN ROUTINE. TODAY I'LL EAT HEALTHY.4. Look for support groups. Its known that you'll have better results.5. Go back to your surgeon. dont wait until all the weight lost comes back

With a gastric sleeve where around 70% of the stomach is removed, the capacity decreases making you feel satisfied with a lot less amount of food, also a lot of the cells that secrete Ghrelin are removed so the secretion of this hormone also decreases making you feel less hungry, but this hormone does not determine the type of craving.Cravings for specific macronutrients, such as carbohydrate, have been postulated to result from a physiological need to alter neurotransmitters, usually endogenous opioids.Just as a “fun fact”, our desire for sweets is an evolutionary trait to ensure we as humans accepted sweet-tasting foods, like vitamin-rich fruits. There is scientific data has shown a genetic predisposition due to mutations in some genes (TAS1R2, SLC2A2, CPTP) making some individuals may be more prone to sweetness than others (sweet tooth). Anyways when you eat a lot of sweets, you will feel the instant gratification immediately, your blood sugar levels spike and later you experience a sugar “crash” making you feel sluggish and tired. So, you have to break the cycle. Try to change the chocolate and biscuits for things that taste sweet but don’t have that much sugar and also gives you healthy nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and dietary fiber, like: • Fruits (berries)• Dark chocolate (that contains more than 70%)• Chia seeds• Greek yogurt• Snack that contains dried fruit and nuts (trail mix)

The chemical you are referring to  is  the Ghrelin  hormone (secreted when the stomach is empty  and signals  your brain to create hunger), although  most of the capacity to produce this hormone is stopped with the sleeve,  it’s just one of many mechanisms we have  to generate hunger.  Eating sweets has several negative effects  including  a spike in insulin  that can  affect  craving for more sweets. You need to  stop all carbohydrates and go on a Keto-diet or Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction for at least a couple of months  to break the cycle  you're in right now, otherwise it will be very hard  to manage. You need to contact  your nutritionist and get started with the plan. You are not in this alone, talk to the Nutritionist associated with your bariatric surgeon for follow up Very important to get ahead of this and start eating healthy.