How do you know when full?

Well, I'm sure most of us have had issues with overeating at some point.  I'm wondering how you know postop when to say "when" so you don't have to deal with any unpleasant effects?  And if you don't what ARE the unpleasant effects you have had?  Is it like some of the other surgeries where you can expect pain, nausea and vomiting?  Please be very honest, graphic, ect.  Paint me a picture of the worst of the worst, real deal experiences you have had please.  I'd like to know my learning curve.

Thanks!

I am always careful to eat pretty slowly. My stomach lets me know me pretty quickly when I am approaching full. If I am too quick or don't pay attention, I will get a runny nose and a wicked sneezing attack, sometimes the hiccups. (These have to do with stimulation of the vagus nerve.)

Sometimes my coworkers come stare at me when I sneeze 25 times in a row after eating one too many boneless spare ribs.

I have not had pain, nausea or vomitting. 

Wow Jenna, that's really interesting, didn't know that.  I hiccup when I get close too.  I've also found with the DS I need to wait a few because it seems to take a bit to register from bite to fullness.

 I get the sneezing too. And my husband is like HAH you ate too much. Slow down idiot. 

It's hard still sometimes because you still get BIG HUNGRY only it takes so much less to calm that BIG HUNGRY down. You feel like could eat a whole 10 oz steak and baked potato ravenous. And then you eat four bites of steak and a bite of potato and are like crap...I think I'm stuffed now!

 LOLOL - OMGosh!  I couldn't have put it any better!   That's EXACTLY what happens to me!  LOL   - I get what I call the "backwards burps" probably hiccups and runny nose if I really pu****

 early out I felt like a lid would plop on my stomach and then suck in the lid.  Don't ask, thats how i would describe it.
Sometimes I get a slight runny nose and will kinda hiccup like 3 times.
Other times i might feet heaviness in my tummy chest,belching, growling stomach
And then sometimes i just feel regular full. as I get farther out I can just feel kinda full.

Have never had nausea, pain or vomiting.  

When = runny nose and sneezing for me too. lol  I have eaten the wrong kind of thing early out and my tummy hurt. That was celery and peanut butter. And one time I ate cheese toast, except the toast wasn't toasty enough and it felt like I'd eaten a brick. That was more of an ugh feeling.

--gina
 

Like Jenna, I get a runny nose when I get close to fell and I hiccup like mad when I get too full.

And like Jenna says, the key to staying out of trouble eat very slowly.

Kerry

Definately eat slow! I was not only a cupulsive eater it the past, but I used to inhale my food. I don't think I really knew what it felt like to be properly full pre-surgery. Since then I have over eaten a few times, once it was seriously uncomfortable for several hours with bloating and nausea. It is taking me some to to learn to recognize the signs that I have had enough, but I am getting there, and again, the key is taking it slow.

Well, early out I made an amazing discovery: I developed an off button! If I was eating slowly and mindfully enough to notice it, that was terrific. If I ate one bite too many, the off button became an eject button. Since I have a puking phobia, it only took one or two such episodes and I KNEW what full was :-).

Over three years later, I have a couple of bites of leeway between "off" and "eject," but it can still happen. Generally, though, I eat, am satisfied, and go on. It's really hard to explain until you experience it. I just am done, don't want any more, period. Now an hour later I might want more, and that's fine.