Well today (06-07-10) I started my soft foods and so I took 1 egg & 1 egg white and about 6 crawfish tails and blended it very well and cooked it soft. I took one bite and it tasted like a piece of heaven. Well then came the 2nd bite and it tasted even a little better. I placed my baby spoon down for 2 min and once o pick up the 3 spoon up, the cramps started. I was cramping so Bad and hearing all kinds of noises coming from me stomach. I knew I hadn?t eaten 1 oz yet but it felt just like I was walking out of the Golden Wok ?Chinese buffet?:w00t:. Man it stayed cramping for about 10 min before I started burp. Once it started it all want to come up but I did have anything down there. If this is what women go through each month I take my hat off to them because those cramps had me saying several prayers. May God bless all women :wink0:

Yeah, the sleeve is NOT happy if you overeat, especially soon after surgery!

I tended to eat huge portions and eat really fast, and I'm STILL trying to learn to just eat slowly, nibble, chew, chew, chew. It's completely different!

And the weird thing is that the cutoff between "full" and "pain" seems very short now. Meaning I can be eating, just feeling fine, delicious food, and then out of the blue -- BAM -- pain and that feeling like you have a lead ball in your throat!

I hope I can learn some of the warning signs in between "full" and "pain," because as you say, the "pain" part is very... unpleasant.

I had a few mishaps at first. Didn't get to the vomiting stage but wanted to. I found that if I went and walked around the block it got better... also burping helps. I'm pretty good about knowing when to stop now. Overeating now has some very quick and harsh punishers built in and I avoid it at all costs... it took me a while to figure out when to stop though. I'm used to packing it in.