karen44

I think the sleeve helps, but until a person is ready to stop using food to sooth all emotional issues, it wouldn't solve all the binge eating problems. There are ways to circumvent the restriction of the sleeve, and for someone who isn't committed to the permanent changes to one's eating and lifestyle, it would be an expensive and risky surgery to undergo.
If one were committed to making those changes, then the sleeve can be a huge help in dealing with food issues. I used to feel hunger 100% of the time, both real hunger pangs and the "head" hunger too. The sleeve removed the physical hunger and made it much easier for me to deal with the "head" hunger. I still am learning a new relationship with food, but feel much more in control now than I ever did before the sleeve surgery.

To cure binge eating, I don't think so. As you have probably hear, the sleeve is a restrictive type WLS. As BGP points out, it is a tool, but you still have to make the right decisions. There are slider foods that I can still eat great quantities of. I can sit down and still eat the same huge bowl of ice cream as I could pre-op.
I, too, was a binge eater. Like you (I'm guessing), I wanted to be able to stop eating once I was full instead of eating until I couldn't anymore. I abused food and it controlled me. I was beginning to think of my next meal before I finished my current meal. I had to make a permanent change with my relationship with food.
For me, the sleeve was the answer. The restriction I feel came up on me quickly and I did mourn not being able to abuse food the way I had. But it also forced me to look deep into my soul searching for the reasons why I wanted to keep eating even though I obviously was full. This can be a highly personal journey of self reflection if you choose to do the work. Just know that the sleeve is not going to do the work alone. You are going to have to participate. To rob a saying and mutate it for my own use:
"The sleeve can move mountains, but bring a shovel!"

I have always been camera shy for many reasons, mostly due to my weight. This little collage shows me 8 days prior to surgery, the second is 1 month post op and the last is this my 5 month post op picture (this week) .
I can't believe the changes in myself in only 5 months. The old me would NEVER post pictures of myself. While I haven't lost any pounds in the last 2 weeks , I have dropped another pant size, going from 20 down to 12 so far. I love my sleeve, it's been life changing for me.

I think so, because you can only take in so much...but YOU have to be ready to make changes as well...the sleeve is only a tool, if you don't make the right choices, you will not succeed...so don't look at the surgery as a "cure all"... you can still consume junk food, like chips or other crap instead of eating Protein and you will not have success... you have to be in the right frame of mind for this surgery.... now my biggest "binge" is raw almonds!!! Things have changed and I don't miss all the junk I threw down my throat before the surgery!!!