Are you Full

[flower 2]

I think this is a question probably the new banders or soon to be banders have what does it feel like when you are FULL is there a signal or a feeling or a pain I really like everyone else probably got the band to lose weight and feel satisfyed and full. I could diet and such but I always felt hungry and deprived not full and I was always thinking what my next meal would be I don't want to be have that hungry feeling again I want to eat and be satisfyed so could someone please let me know what there full signs are and are you still ever hungry after just eating please respond

[DeniseG 3]

Everyone is different of course. My fullness is not what it use to feel like after eating say........Thanksgiving dinner. I haven't had that full feeling since the band. It is totally different for me. That feeling of full was deep in my gut. This feeling is at the top of my stomach.

Now, if I have eaten too much.......that is a totally different feeling. I get the feeling of, if I eat one more bite I am going to have a throw up session. But, again, it is not in my gut, it is right where my band opening is. It is a feeling of pressure. Almost like trying to swim underwater with a life perserver on, you can't do it no matter how hard you try. You want the food to move through the band.....but, it wants to float on the top. You can feel it sitting there until the pressure opens and the food goes through. Which does make you feel full, but, in a different way. Some days, it feels like that pressure. Sometimes when it is super intense, it is almost like really bad heartburn.

[Guest j. lynn]

I think this is a question probably the new banders or soon to be banders have what does it feel like when you are FULL is there a signal or a feeling or a pain I really like everyone else probably got the band to lose weight and feel satisfyed and full. I could diet and such but I always felt hungry and deprived not full and I was always thinking what my next meal would be I don't want to be have that hungry feeling again I want to eat and be satisfyed so could someone please let me know what there full signs are and are you still ever hungry after just eating please respond

You shouldn't feel pain. Ever. If you do, something went wrong - ate too much or didn't chew well enough. In the beginning and after fills, it's trial and error, but you should get to a point where you don't have pain.

I feel full most of the time now. I just had a lunch and small portion of chicken for lunch and I won't be hungry for another 4-5 hours.

jayme