SueinLincs

That's the difficulty. Although I've had the band loosened I often find that Protein gets stuck and I have to make myself bring it up. It's pretty embarrassing when it happens in a restaurant and you end up going back and forth to the bathroom 3 or 4 times.

If I knew it was still going to be this hard I'm not so sure I would have bothered although I did lose a couple of stone quite quickly at the beginning.

Another sugar addict here. I had to remove ALL sugary foods from my house, if I don't have them in the house i can't eat them. I usually get the sugar cravings at night watching TV..... I've been getting on my exercise bike for about 30 minutes (I keep my exercise bike in the living room), telling myself if I ride for 30 minutes I can get something to eat after. Course the only thing I want after is Water. :-)

What I am getting at is the addiction is habit based (aka head hunger) so change the habit. This won't work every time, but its a start..... do something 3 times and it's a habit. Good luck and don't give up. You can do this!

Like you, I can't have anything in the house like cakes, sweets etc. I've even moved house because I used to live opposite a convenience store (this wasn't the only reason I assure you lol.) I think exercise is a big problem. Unfortunately despite Meagan above who thinks everyone can exercise it isn't always the case. I do stretching and strengthening exercises but I damaged my back by exercising in the first place so any calorie burning exercise is definitely off limits as is swimming as I have chronic RSI too and swimming leaves me in agony. It's really frustrating, I used to really enjoy walking and going to the gym. I'm just beginning to feel that I can't eat hardly anything without putting on weight. I've gone back onto Herbalife as I lost some weight with that before my back operation but it still doesn't seem to be moving.

I had this op in 2006 and initially lost about 35lb but since then I've been really struggling with gaining and losing weight. I've experimented with various fill levels but find I'm as hungry as ever. I find it really difficult to eat the high Protein food needed to keep me full but the sugary stuff that is my downfall just slips down as easy as anything.

Funnily enough the only time my weight was stable was when I had a job wining and dining clients every lunch time and every evening.

I've since sustained a back injury that limits my mobility which doesn't help but I've been really struggling this last few years. I went up to 217 lb, managed to lose 21 lb at Weight Watchers but have put 7 of that back on.

Am I alone here? Does anyone else have this problem? I am aware that maybe this wasn't the best option for me because sugar is my problem rather than portion size but I didn't expect to feel as hungry as I do.