Hi All,

I was wondering if you might not want to share what your "full" feelings are and how you know when to stop eating? I can eat my portions but literally my stomach is still growling and I inevitably end up eating more. I have a realize band and am about at 9cc's currently. Any help would be wonderous!

I thought I was the only one that got pain on the left side!!! Wow, 3 years out, what do ya know!!!

I also go for satisfied, not full. Full hurts...OK, well sometimes I do full...yikes!

This board is so helpful ... thank you !!

So that's what that left side pain is, overdoing it. Well I thought I was doing OK but sometimes the ol piggy puts the snout back on and roots around a bit too long and what do I get (me being the ol piggy) an awful pain in the side (and left shoulder) that lasts for at least an hour. Thanks for sharing that folks at least now I am sure of when I have overdone it and can work to keep it in check.

re: "what your "full" feelings are and how you know when to stop eating?"

perhaps the largest change in my own eating habits was discovering the wonders of the difference between "hungry" and "not hungry".

Full is an illusion that I have ranted about in the past many times; we all were raised with some variation of "just eat this little bit"; "you can't leave the table until your plate is empty"; "here have just a little more" etc etc.

By the time I was 20 I literally had lost the notion that eating and satisfaction were related. I trained for decades in the art of tamping down with my eating shovel all those precious morsels so I could AT LAST feel "full".

Big mistake and total error. And do not let the sounds your Belly Beasts make, drive you into further over eating....the drive to eat until 'full' is the path to Morbid Obesity.

Along the way of in the wretched 6 weeks postOp, I suddenly heard the song of "Not hungry" and it was directly tied to being "Not full".

Suddenly I realized I had been trying to feed the Beast of "Full" and ignoring the Sprite of "Not Full".

Sometimes just one or two bites is plenty. Then stop.

In fact, look at how Normos eat: Hungry--->eat--->Not hungry--->Stop eating. That is how to train ourselves in our new Life.

The fear of being "not full" drove me into a frenzy to eatEatEAT. You know where that leads.

Cheers on your journey.