I will be banded next Tuesday. As soon as I had a surgery date I began eating everything in sight because I knew that my days were numbered! After a couple of weeks of this I started feeling physically and emotionally terrible. And I started realizing a few things. That I am addicted to food. I do not seem to have that "full" switch in me that I read so many people talking about. I truly do not know when I am full. These past couple of weeks I have disgusted myself with the fact that I cannot stop eating. I have tried to recognize that full feeling with no success. So this has me worried that once banded the problem will continue and I will never feel full, or at least recognize the feeling. Has anyone else experienced this? I truly feel like a bottomless pit!

I'm kind of worried that I think the band will be a fix all for many aspects of my life and am beginning to wonder if I will feel disappointed. Because I know deep down that it will not fix everything. IT is NOT magical, which is what scares me. I guess I will then have to face why I have this bottomless pit, with no full switch and thus the reason I am fat. I never viewed myself as having a eating problem, just with enjoying food. But here I sit at 230lbs getting ready to have weight loss surgery, so duh! I need to wake up and take a hard look at myself.

Sorry for rambling on....but does anyone else feel this way or has anyone else ever felt like this?

Thanks for listening.

That first true PB experience is definitely something to be remembered. Mine was at my sister's wedding a few weeks ago. I ate one bite too many and suddenly I sweating, slightly shaking, looking around, trying to be inconspicuous, wondering if I should bolt for the nearest restroom, breath, breath, little sip of water and finally it subsided..........WOW! - definitely don't want to do that everyday!!

Im still detoxing almost 3 years later...:thumbs_up:

That first true PB experience is definitely something to be remembered. Mine was at my sister's wedding a few weeks ago. I ate one bite too many and suddenly I sweating, slightly shaking, looking around, trying to be inconspicuous, wondering if I should bolt for the nearest restroom, breath, breath, little sip of Water and finally it subsided..........WOW! - definitely don't want to do that everyday!!

I don't know why, but if there is a chance that I feel like I might be starting down the pb path . . . sipping any water turns it into a definite. Water does not help me with this at all, it just doubles the intensity.

Does drinking during a potential oncoming pb help or hurt most bandsters?