Feeling full?

I get the same thing as Mom does.  My "full" is higher up than it used to be.  So same feeling, different spot, which messes with my mind sometimes.  There are times now where I miss the old full feeling, but then I put on my size 6's and I'm good!

Thanks. It is good to know that others have a higher up spot, too, and do miss the old feeling. Makes me think I'm not as much of a freak for feeling that way as I thought I might be. You know, sometimes I have to fight the urge to think that everyone on OH is perfect and it's just me that struggles with the food issues. I know, I need to get real, but that's, as I like to say,  just the old tapes playing.

 

This is why I LOVE this forum.  I thought it was just me that was having the 'fullness' issue.  Thanks for pulling my head back out of my stomach and realizing it's the old stuffing mechanism I'm still dealing with.  This site is awesome!!!

I mealed with Jimbo last night after group......

It was so weird...... we shared a Rib Plate..... we ate just about the same amount at just about the same speed and both signaled at the same time where we felt the food sitting. We both probably ate one to many bites as we both illustrated where the food was sitting...... up high.

 

OK.... the weirder part is that it's not to macho for two dudes to share one plate of baby back ribs at a rib joint..... eat like two girls..... and pack the rest of the food for my mom........

 

I actually don't miss that un-button the top button gorged full, hard to breath felling........

 

frisco

See, that is the thing I so admire about Dr. C. He has "standardized" his VSG to get the highest success rate possible. The fact that you and Jimbo eat practically the same amounts is testimony to how well Dr. C's procedure works long term.

I'm working through this stupid head trip about the full feeling. It's purely emotional. I get it. I'm also coming to terms with my new normal. I thought I had, but clearly I have a way to go still.

 

I'm the higher up full feeling as well. I have to be very careful because my body quickly switches from feeling a little full to feeling like I am a ticking time bomb. Sometimes it's literally a matter of time before the food just comes back up.

If I under eat, then I quickly want something more. But I recognize that is my boredom, stress, discomfort about something, loneliness, insert whatever word works. That's how I got fat in the first place so I've learned to distract myself, or not. Most days are better than others.

I've been out of work since December. Now healing from plastics. Sitting on my tushie more. Waking after 5 hours sleep. Must be my brain cycling everything in my sleep. I crave the full feeling more when tired.

I find that at 33 months out I'm learning about more of the maintenance challenges! Bring on the holidays! Oy vey!

What I find very interesting for myself is that for months and months I under ate my sleeve at every meal. It has only been since the stress level kicked up that I've been craving that old full feeling. I do admit that part of me misses that old full feeling - not the Thanksgiving dinner full, unbutton my pants type of full, but the I've had a good dinner pleasant full feeling I used to get. The way I describe it tells me that it is an emotional issue, you know.

I really dislike the high up in my throat full feeling I get now, if I over eat - and over eating can mean really just an extra bite. I've decided that dealing with this issue is just one more part of my journey to a healthier me. I figure it's a whole lot better to deal with this now than after gaining a bunch of weight back looking for that full feeling.

Sigh.....

I have found it to be a challenge this year. I know that when I go back to work a lot of underlying stress will be relieved and less stress equals less food cravings for me.

I hate and don't want that full to the top feeling. I want more satisfaction from what I have just eaten. Food has been my comfort for 55 years. I have patience that I can survive the challenges of this next stage of recovery, hopefully without getting beaten up!

I am forever thankful that we are in this together.

I do get a "full" feeling now at times that is a pleasant sense of being sated but I am nearly 3 years and it took a long time to get to this.  for a long time it was more like "ok i better quite because a few more bites will bring the foamies".  yet yesterday I ate some grapes too quickly and got that almost to the foamies feeling. But today's full feeling is not like the old days when being full meant being stuffed.  Being satisfied no longer has to mean feeling stuffed. Its a feeling we have to learn to identify.

As time goes by so many things become more normal, or maybe they just seem that way. But I used to take a gas x after most meals and I haven't had to do that in a long time.

Life is good.

Diane

Diane, you're exactly three months ahead of me. I'm looking forward to that "more normal" feeling about all this! I think the unemployment since December combined with two bouts of plastic surgery have left me feeling less than normal!