Here's an unsolicited tip for anyone considering bariatric surgery, who doesn't have a food addiction.
The insurance companies say the reason they find bariatric surgeries is because, statistically, it proves to save them more than the cost of the surgery in the first two years after the surgery. The inevitable conclusion for the thinking person is that this is lowest-common-denominator action, not medical-care-designed-for-YOU action. The drive to have these surgeries comes from the managed care industry.
But did you know that in the weeks following the procedure, patients are coached to stretch their new, diminshed stomachs UP to hold the portion sizes the docs want us to be able to eat?
And did you know that if you gradually cut back on food portions WITHOUT THE SURGERY, you can get your "I feel full" capacity down to the same size and, with proper exercise, your metabolism re-set to the "I can burn fat instead of eating" level? That's right. You can have a surgeon take you DOWN to a mutilated size for you to increase back UP to the desired size-- or you can DO IT YOURSELF.
Your insurance will probably not support your effort to do that-- but Mudcat can.
How to do it? The mini-meal process I've described.
How to know when you've over-eaten after you've shrunk your stomach? You'll get an IBS attack. Yup. Some IBS is just the natural result of an over-filled stomach sending some of the contents downline to the gut-- rapid peristalsis.