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I just went to my seminar and the surgeon said that you don't feel real "satiety" until nutrients get into your intestines. He also said that the food you eat sits in your pouch for a few hours getting soft enough to go down. What I concluded was that you eat, but are still not satisfied - just like going on a diet now does! Only you can't cheat. Is that true?

Another question: does overeating cause the lap band to "slip?" Do you know when you have eaten all you are supposed to eat?

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I already answered this same question you posed on another thread:

Yes. When the pouch is full, you feel satisfied. Please understand that the physiology of gastric bypass and lap band are different so what applies to one doesn't apply to the other. The band is placed around the top of the stomach. The little pouch gets full, the stomach things OK I'M FULL because it's filled "to the top". (but it really isn't....just the pouch is). Then the food trickles on through and you stay full for a long time. Digestion doesn't really occur (or is severely limited) until the food moves through the stoma (hole created by the band) into the lower part of your stomach. For example i can eat a few ounces of a well done rib eye steak and literally be "full" for 6 hours. Although "full" is a misnomer...it's more hungry/not hungry.

And yes you can cheat with the band AND with gastric bypass. Both take a committment, both take work, both are just tools.

Let me add this to that other post:

CCK which is an intestinally-mediated chemical that signals "full" is only ONE way the body knows whether or not it's hungry. So your info isn't so much wrong as just incomplete.

Of course the band works. And no, we successful bandsters didn't get the band, find we starve and suffer just like on a "diet", and keep it on the QT so others will get the band. LOL I can see why you'd think that but your premise is wrong.

If you want, ask that doctor how he thinks the band functions, then, since food has to hit your small intestine to trigger "full". I'm sure he'll elaborate and you'll realize he only gave you part of the picture.

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