What is this "full" you speak of?

Angela, I am so glad you posted this!! 

I am 16+ weeks out from bypass, and I have been super frustrated since the swelling from surgery went away. Since that time I have felt lost. My pouch was a big black hole of nothingness. Never did I feel ANYTHING from my pouch, nor did I have any food aversions. I was able to tolerate solid dense protein from 5 week and on. I also felt real hunger, not acid or reflux, or "head hunger".

** Everyone's journey is different, believe me, this journey WASN'T easy.**  

For the past two days, my pouch has some feeling. I have sensation while and after eating. I have also stopped before my 4oz portion was completed, feeling the runny nose and sneeze!!

Please be patient, it will come!! I totally understand.  I will be here for support if/when you need it. You can always PM me if you want!! 

Yay for you!  You are finally having the runny nose ;)

Thanks so much! This is great to hear, though I'm sorry for your struggles.

I just started feeling "hungry and full" just recently.  The hungry piece made me stop this weekend as I had just finished a nice lunch.  I did a self check and decided it was boredom and got up and did some activity.  That and some water - magic it went away.  Also I did feel full after eating dense protein and a salad.  I'm not good at judging salad yet.  I make them too big.  But my pouch is starting to give me some signs.  Also I think I got the Eggface hiccup that seems to trigger about 2/3rds the way through my meals.  I'm starting to listen to it as a good cue for "satisfied."  But the advice from Grim is spot on.  Hungry for us is a trick.

Thank you all so much for this outpouring of information and help! I'm a HUGE overthinker and brooder (though getting smaller now ;-) ), and I can get way up inside my head about things like this. You've really brought me back to reality with this.