asking again...vets please chime in

I think I need to re-word a questions I asked yesterday.  Don't think I was clear 

When I get ferociously hungry, I eat, thinking I will slip into a binge.  BUT, every single time, as soon as I've had a small amount of food, I'm completely satisfied and don't want to eat anything else.  

This is a WONDERFUL thing for me, as I've never had a "shut off" trigger before.  Now, once I'm full, I don't WANT any more food.

My question is to the vets:  Has anyone else experienced this?  If so, did it last????  

I'm praying this lasts forever, because if it does, I have even more hope of reaching goal and staying there. 

My solution to ferociously hungry is eating on a regular schedule and not getting hungry like that.

I found I lost my "shut off" about two years out but now that I'm on a regular eating schedule I almost never even get close to a binge.  No, I don't "snack" all the time.  I have scheduled meals (about six small meals a day).

For me it does last as long as I eat dense proteins and veggies and don't drink weith my meal. But slider foods or carbs or drinking with my meal I.e wine makes me eat and eat and eat....

Thanks for the replies.  It's nice to have some good advice from those who have gone before me 

Unfortunately, on days I work, an eating schedule is out of the question.  Everyone is very supportive, but the patient always comes first, so I get to eat when I get to eat.  Which means sometimes I get very hungry before I get a couple of minutes to eat something.  But I do my best to keep to 5-6 small meals per day as much as humanly possible.  And you're right, when I eat at regular intervals, I don't get crazy hungry.

3.5 yrs out and still working>

That's awesome!!!!  

4.5 years out and I never get ferociously hungry, actually I never get any kind of hungry. I eat because I know that I have to and it tastes good (sometimes). 

Martha 

5 years out and my "shut off" trigger still works - I am glad, too, because I don't dump on anything, so the full feeling helps me control portions.  I do get a little hungry now and then, but nothing close to like before the surgery.  If I grab something or find myself grazing it's usually head hunger or emotions, and not true hunger.

I am 21 months post op.  I still get full quickly.

usually, yes. i have had a few slips, especially if cookies are involved. i've also noticed i have a tendency to do it before a thesis deadline. luckily after this week i only have 1 left, but obviously its the big one! i made sure the only thing i have to "binge" on in the apartment is grape tomatoes and green grapes this weekend, but the real issue will be when i need to go get milk tomorrow!