Beautiful-B

Happy birthday. Congrats on your weight loss.

Be patient it takes a little while before you feel any restriction. Focus on making good food choices right now it will help you in the long run.

I am 8 months post op and there were weeks when I stalled. When that happened I would make and effort to get more protien in and excersise and that usually got me back on track. Good luck.

Suzannetex, If you can't eat then you are not going to be able to take in the proper nutrients for your body to loose weight. I have been where you are and trust me the best thing to do is get a slight unfill. You can always work your way back up. It's not how much you can't it, its about being able to eat and make better choices for your body. I have had 3 fills and 3 adjustments a day or so later. My doctor gradually brought me up to where I was intially too tight. Everybody is different. Listen to your body, the band is a tool and you should not be miserable going through this process. Take it from me, been there, done that. Slow and steady is the better way to go. Good Luck. Let me know if you have any questions.

After I was banded, I did alot of protein shakes and seafood. I found that for me seafood is much easier to go down and the shakes are easy on the go. I have a blender bottle and I am using 1 scoop of Unjury no flavor powder and Pure Protien van shake. Together it's about 52g of protien. I have that first thing in the morning or I sip it throught the day. In any event, I get the protein in and I found that it has helped my weight loss and controls my hunger. Good Luck girlie and welcome to the banded community.

Juji, I too have been through the same thing with my last 3 fills and unfills. My doctor says my band and stomach are sensative. We have reverted to getting smaller fills. Stay positive. The band does work you have to work with it. I have been doing at least 1 protein shake a day and I am steadly loosing weight.

My procedure was approved in 7 days. I have Tricare Prime. GOOD LUCK.

Congradulations on joining the banded community

Great question. It is basically like SandyC2 said regurgitating. Please pardon me for being so graphic but for your question, I will answer. I have only experienced this once and let me tell you it was not pretty. I was trying to eat a biscuit too fast and here it comes back where it came; my mouth. All of a sudden my mouth starts to Water and then I had the urge to spit up. Not just any spit up, it is bubbly spit. By this time my chest is burning and I can feel the food I just consumed in my esophagus. Then I felt the need to vomit. For me this experience lasted all of 5-7 mins. I was over when I walked outside and bent over and I was able to spit/vomit up the biscuit. Please know that this could have been prevented if I had followed my doctors rules and chew.. chew... chew.

The one food that has proved to give me problems has been biscuits and dry white meat chicken breast.I had my first stuck eposide with a bisuit, Never again I tell you. I am hopefull my list doesn't grow to large. I really don't like bread, I pretty much gave up rice a long time ago and pasta is a maybe for me. I don't really care of it anyways. These things seem to give the most problems. If I have to give up baked potatoes I may die. lol. I love them.

It's nice to hear that you are getting back on the bandwagon.