Fellow Bandsters:
We all know the basics of the Science regarding our Band surgery, and understand the mechanics of the restriction. The Science is "What IS" about our altered anatomy.
To me, the Band is much like an artificial knot-hole that all we eat must pass through, on the way to our otherwise normal digestive tract. Issues of discomfort and concern regarding what I regard as "errors of eating" are discussed widely and will not be repeated here.
The Art of adapting to our postBand lives requires understanding and flexibility and yes, DISCIPLINE in applying the Bandster Rules of eating. The Art of the Band is "HOW we do what we must to achieve our goals".
Overeating, for whatever reason, for those of us Morbidly Obese, has been a life style and habit which simply must change. Notions of "eating until FULL" are an error that has NEVER served us well in all our preBand days, and will not do so in our postBand world.
Learning to identify the difference between "hunger" and "NOT hunger" is a most important step in our journey. Personally I spent most of my life responding to the notion that "full" meant "not hungry" and "NOT full" meant "hungry". And I paid scant attention to the fact that no matter how full I stuffed myself, it never really achieved the sensation of "SATIETY".
I spent decades trying to physically feed that which was not responding to eating.
Normos eat when hungry, and stop when NOT hungry. Morbidly Obese such as myself, typically eat even when NOT hungry, and continue until it's all gone, then look for more. Eating for those so afflicted has nothing to do with physiological hunger, and habit overtakes all intellectual function and subverts the willpower, along with feeling of self worth. Overeating becomes a factor in ongoing depression. I see little difference between Overeating and abuse of other addictive substances, except cheeseburgers and chips and fries and chocolateparfaitdonutcreampufftwinkiedingdongs are not on the federal controlled substance list.
Watch what a thin person eats. What allows them to stop eating at something less than a bag o'burgers? What drives us to continue until we are tamping it in with our eating shovel?
The Dragon of Overeating that lives in our belly will control our eating and make us reorganize our entire lives, to satisfy the insatiable. What begins as simplistic taste delight become a bond of habit too weak to notice until it becomes too strong to break. We are captives of our own belly demands of 'feed me'. In the midst of plenty we stuff ourselves beyond any rational level under the general notion that we are not "full".
We must reorganize our thoughts and eating behavior into a "Philosophy of Bandster Eating" to move toward our goal.
The "why" of how/what/when/where we eat must come under the control of our rational mind. And that means retaking our bodies, reaffirming our choices, and rededicating our eating behavior to confirm with what we want for ourselves.
And our eating Philosophy is what must guide our postBand lives. We must learn to eat just to the point of 'non hunger' and stop. There is no deprivation when satiety is achieved. While it takes so little to achieve satiety, we must learn to respect the power of "Enough".
The Art, Science and Philosophy of Living with the Band 
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