Then what is the band for, if it is not a tool to help us feel full? i am going on my willpower and doing right, but wish it did what it was told it would do, or else why go through the surgery? i get what you are saying, I think, but there HAS to be a point to having the band? I'm sure it's not to just put it in our heads that it is there and supposedly working? there has to be more, no??