It is a signal of feeling satisfied without feeling full. Some people experience hiccuping, a runny nose, or watery eyes so you have to try to pay attention to your body and use and see what your own soft stop signal is because they are unique.
Hard stops: This is a more direct signal that will occur at the end of your meal if you have eaten one bite too many. You may experience productive burping, or discomfort, or pain. It is important to note the differences between first syndrome and hard stop signals.
First bite occurs at the beginning of your meal and does not indicate you’re at your sweet spot or have too much saline in your band. The hard stop occurs at the end of a meal and is an indicator that you have eaten too much. So, in other words, you really need to pay attention to your body and what you’re, the way you’re eating.
And those are basically it.
So for me, I know right now, like when I have…going back to my Chuck E Cheese experience – I ate my 1 cup of food. I had my protein first. I ate my chicken, and then it was when I continued and probably ate about a 1/2 cup of the other food. I was kinda like, I felt full, but because people were watching I’d try to have a little bit more, and it’s like woah.
It’s like after that, have a cup and a half just ate Christmas turkey dinner, Thanks giving dinner, stuff. I was done. I was completely stuffed. The more you sit there, you actually feel fuller. So I know when you have the one cup of food. They say “Try to make that one cup of food last twenty minutes” because that is how long its taking your body to really say, yes, I’m full.
So the slower you eat and longer it takes you, the fuller you’re going to feel. Instead of like rushing through it real fast. Cause I know if I’m eating my one cup of food and it doesn’t take me the whole 20 minutes to eat, and most of the time it doesn’t, I’m still working on I can eat a whole cup of food and say it takes me ten minutes or fifteen minutes.
Then I still wait. And by the time I get to that twenty minutes or twenty five minutes whatever [xx], that’s when I really start to feel it. Like, you know what? Wow. I am really full off of this, and like, I’m good. I’m not like, you know But I’m like, I’m not hungry anymore. I’m good. So, that’s what that’s about.
So I figured that, with me, because 5cc [xx] is my bands, there on surgery day. And I’m thinking with the way I’m eating now, and the one [xx] band how long it’s keeping me full. I’m thinking, you know I my only need one self and then I actually be at my sweet spot. I think they did pretty good with the amount they choose to put in.
I think, they have said, they have something called them, smart spot technology or something like that which tries to, you know, to kind of know how many surgeries they’ve done in the past and the person and their habits. From the assessment we saw that, how much they should put in and to try to get you to that sweet spot as, you know, quickly as possible.
So you can kind of get on with your journey. They say also in like the first five weeks not to expect any weight loss at all, so if you do, it’s like it’s basically what-a-way [xx] that’s what they say so, you know, when you start going back to solid foods and when you hit your restriction level and find your sweet spot, that’s when your real weight loss is going to begin.
So for anybody who is not losing weight at the beginning, don’t get frustrated, because it’s all a process. It’s all about finding that spot, finding what works for you, and everybody will be different.