What does "you'll be satisfied" mean to you?

[sideeye 1,440]

12 hours ago, jenn1 said:

It's not an endless head game for me. I feel satisfied by taste and quality over quantity.

Do you feel satisfied by taste and quality before restriction kicks in, or do you just mean that quantity no longer dictates satisfaction?

None of us are medical professionals on this site. All we can give is our own experiences...Take what's useful and ignore the rest.

Just trying to guide the conversation away from advice focusing on my personal experience and towards the broader experiences of people who are years down the line: less "I can't predict how this will feel for you" and more "four years out I feel satisfied by taste and quality" (which is helpful, thank you).

16 hours ago, AshAsh1 said:

When I say "satisfied", I mean that you are no longer hungry. Are you emotionally satisfied?, because that is virtually what you are asking. You are referring to when the brain has caught up with the stomach after you've eaten way too much.

Yeah, I think this is the change: pre-op patients can think of "satisfied" in emotional terms, and post-op it becomes much less complex: lack of hunger. But pre-op the concept of hunger and craving are so twinned that patients don't even imagine that post-op the definition of satisfied will change. It's an interesting think to think about when a pre-op poster is worrying a lot about not being able to enjoy food at events or is asking a lot about whether they'll still enjoy eating - I think the answer is that eating is going to change so fundamentally, there really isn't a direct sensation to map. The joy/contentment/endorphin rush will NOT be moved further up the process and just kick in at three bites of taco, but you also won't be hungry. You'll just be full, and have little interest in eating more. Which isn't really a pre-op state of mind without the additional endorphin kick.

[sillykitty 10,706]

I'm 3 months post op, and my satisfied feeling just changed this last week.

Up until this week, I would eat until I felt the restriction. I would not be hungry, but I didn't feel satisfied like I did pre op. I wasn't wanting to go back for more, or anything, it just was a different sensation. Also food never tasted as good as I had anticipated it would, so I didn't desire to keep eating for taste.

This week three things changed. I'm starting to feel physical hunger again, which has been absent since surgery. (Head hunger has been with me since day 3!). Second, when I would eat, it was less about feeling the restriction, and more about feeling that familiar feeling of being full (but after only a couple of ounces). I felt that good, satisfying full sensation for the first time post op. Finally, food started tasting as good as I expected it to.