Is there a difference feeling full before and after lapband?

[Dreamjeans 0]

Right now I'm on a high Protein diet/low carb and sometimes I feel like not eating and other times I get a full sensation.

Is there a difference pre and post banding of what "full" feels like?

Do you just go about your day or do you think about sweets or Snacks too? I have a stomach that can always eat more even when I know I've eaten too much so I'm just wondering how you all do with that feeling after the band.

Thanks! :smile:

[Sarah.R 2]

Hey Jen, yes it's definitely a different feeling of being full, I was banded on the 12th and it's like the top part of your stomach is full as (which obviously it is) and then within 20 minutes or so it goes away, really weird for me. I just had some Tomato Soup with blended porcupines and had about a cup full and am full now, but I know within half an hour it's just going to feel like nothing is in there at all.

[Dreamjeans 0]

Sarah! YAY! You got your band. I read your profile last week and I'm glad the surgery went well. Thanks for answering!

btw, what is a blended porcupine? LOL :smile:

[CyndiMomto3 0]

Sounds prickly! I want to know what it is too! :smile:

[Sarah.R 2]

Lol thanks, a porcupine is basically just mince, egg, capsicum, rice, onion, garlic mixed into a meatball then put into a pot with Tomato Soup and cooked. My mum and sister had it for dinner last night and technically I'm still on liquids so today I used a blender and blended it to heck and added Tomato Soup, thinned it out a little with milk and it was soooooo good lol, I was just having plain tomato soup but just the added flavour was great =)

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

The feeling of being full when you have good restriction with the band feels like if you eat one more bite, you are going to puke.

[Sarah.R 2]

The feeling of being full when you have good restriction with the band feels like if you eat one more bite, you are going to puke.

But the best thing to do is to eat until your satisfied not full, otherwise you have the risk of puking anyway.

[Leah28 0]

I've had trouble with this a lot... I was banded on 4 Feb this year, and I still struggle with what "full" feels like. Before the band I would eat till I was uncomfortable... Which is very bad with a band... But I still do it!

I have had to start measuring my food again to keep the portion sizes small.

My doctor said that "satisfied: is about 2 mouthfulls before you are full... But how the hell do you know 2 mouthfulls prior?!

Guess I'll just have to keep on trying!

[PrincesaJenE 0]

Well for me - full feels exactly the same as before the band it just happens longer and I stay full faster. I've never vomited. I've eaten 2-3 bites past what I think is full but I've never been in any excruciating or unbearable pain. Well, actually, now that I think about it - there was this one time about 4 weeks after being banded that I had a little too much to eat - I did feel as If I was full to the brim and got a little bit of a headache but that was it.

One person mentioned that it feels like the top part of their stomach is full - mine feels like my whole stomach. I honestly can't differentiate between the top and bottom part of my stomach. I actually feel the exact same way that I did before surgery. The only thing different is that I eat less and that I stay full longer.

I definitely think about Snacks sometimes but either they don't have the SAME excitement as they once held or you don't want the snack because you know you may eating in and hour or so and if you eat the snack now you'll be unable to eat later because you'll be fulll. If anything, I find myself making sure I have space in my stomach so that I can eat at meals. I do occasionally snack. I am usually full for 3-4 hours. Hope this info helps.

[ParrotheadCathy 0]

If I eat slowly (the very hardest part of the whole band process for me has been learning to eat more slowly), there comes that moment when I no longer feel like my stomach is saying "feed me, feed me". I don't feel overstuffed (which is what "full" used to mean for me) and I definitely don't feel hungry. So that's what full means to me.

[jenajjthr 0]

Right now I'm on a high Protein diet/low carb and sometimes I feel like not eating and other times I get a full sensation.

Is there a difference pre and post banding of what "full" feels like?

Prebanded: I could eat so much more and still not feel "full." I could snack/graze all day long and still not feel "full."

Postbanded: I can only eat small amounts and I feel "full" a lot sooner and for a longer period of time.

Do you just go about your day or do you think about sweets or Snacks too? I have a stomach that can always eat more even when I know I've eaten too much so I'm just wondering how you all do with that feeling after the band.

Thanks! :smile:

I think about Snacks, but since most of the time I'm still full from a meal I don't want them. In fact there are times when the mere thought of eating something else is somewhat repulsive. I've never felt like that before.

The band is a tool to help reduce the amount of calories you take in. It is still our choice on what we do eat. As much as I want to eat unhealthy food, I'm trying to make the right decisions. Before the band when I tried to do this, I always felt like I was starving or depriving myself. Now, postbanded, I don't feel like it. I still eat some "junk" food, but not anywhere near the amount I used to. I'm about 5 weeks out from the start of my post op diet, 3 weeks from my surgery and I've lost almost 30 pounds and 4 inches from my waist. I never could have done this w/out the band.

[shelley2b 0]

One thing I would advise is just be careful... I'm one of those original eat until you burst folks too - we've got to watch trying to get that feeling and ultimately stretching the pouch. Measuring or only eating small portions regardless of 'feeling full' is probably a good idea for the first little while.

[Libbyjane1976 1]

It feels like you sat down and ate a big old Thanksgiving dinner minus the really uncomfortable, sleepy feeling afterward.

[Chincotigger 0]

I notice a definite difference. Personally, I don't find the post-band full as satisfying as the pre-band full. It's not that sitting back, rubbing your belly, smiling and saying, "That was yummy!" For me, it's more like after a few bites, the hunger pangs go away and after 1/2-3/4 cup of food, I feel like it's sitting in the bottom of my esophagus. It takes some getting used to, but it's so much easier to avoid junk and Snacks when you can easily control hunger pangs.

[erinshel 0]

for me now when Im full it feels like a very tight sensation in my chest area (top stomach) ...before it would feel like a weight in the pit of my stomach....