LessLee

I am so sorry you are feeling this way. I wish I had some wisdom to share... It sounds like you need a break, some time to re-focus on YOU.
Don't be too hard on yourself, you haven't gained and that is a big victory. Forgive yourself and move forward.
I hope it all settles soon.

I am so sorry you are feeling this way. I wish I had some wisdom to share... It sounds like you need a break, some time to re-focus on YOU.
Don't be too hard on yourself, you haven't gained and that is a big victory. Forgive yourself and move forward.
I hope it all settles soon.

I know what that's like! I did that all the time pre-band! I think Sharpie is right, it is part of the addiction but also part of the emotional eating. Sad- eat, Lonely - eat, Celebrate - eat, at least for me. The only emotion that didn't make me want to eat was anger.

I know what that's like! I did that all the time pre-band! I think Sharpie is right, it is part of the addiction but also part of the emotional eating. Sad- eat, Lonely - eat, Celebrate - eat, at least for me. The only emotion that didn't make me want to eat was anger.

I was reading some things that kinda scared me too. But it is so true that it is a small percentage that are posting to seek help or guidance. There are tons of people who don't post here often because they have no issues at all.
I wish there were some people around me too. It can get lonely.
You are doing great though!

I hope you feel better!

That emotional part sounds just like me. We are so used to "stuffing in", now we have to face it. Hang in there and I hope you recover quickly!

Aw that doesn't make you bad, it makes you human! You got lots of steps in too! Have fun with your grandchildren!

Aw that doesn't make you bad, it makes you human! You got lots of steps in too! Have fun with your grandchildren!

Sorry to hear that.

I know that it may be different for different people, but I've had my band for 7 years, and I've never had an experience that was that awful. I remember right after I got the band and was first back on real food. I stopped and got a breakfast burrito. The first bite of the tortilla got stuck. It did hurt but it wasn't excruciating.
The hardest lesson for me then - and still is - that you can no longer just have a quick bite when you are in a hurry. No matter how late you are or how little time you have, you must eat slowly and chew well. As long as I do that, I don't have problems. There may be foods I have to be more careful with (such as steak, heavy bread, tortillas) but I have never found anything that I absolutely cannot eat. As long as I'm willing to chew enough, it's fine (maybe you could say tough steak or pork is out of the question for me if I just can't chew it up enough). Most of the time, though, I just try to avoid bread and stuff just because I don't want to work that hard.
As for "frothing" or "Sliming" - no one told me about that and I sort of discovered it on my own. It happens to me mostly when I've tried to go too fast. It's really not painful to me - as Kime-lou said it's more of a pressure. There is no nausea and I don't really throw up (as in when you have a bug and throw up). It's actually more like a cough and there it is. I think regular vomiting is much worse than the experience of "sliming." I think it must be alot like spitting up for a baby. There just isn't any more room and it can't go down so it must come up.
As I said, I've had my band for 7 years and never had a single complication or real problem with it. I never did any type of support group or online support until a few months ago when I started visiting this site to get myself back on track and focused. Yet even after 7 years of no problems, I started to kind of get freaked out and a little bit panicky as I read some of the horror stories posted here. I'm not doubting that the folks who posted them were telling the truth. It's just never been true for me and I have no real reason to expect that it will.
Try not to freak out because of some of the bad experiences others have had. For all the people that have had difficulties there are also those of us who have never had problems. I think the people who don't have problems just don't post as much because they don't think about it. Really - there does come a day when it's just a normal part of your life and you don't even think about the band at all.

Some things you wrote sound a lot like me. Good luck to you and congrats!

Hang in there and I hope you recover quickly.

Even though I am not there yet, I understand what you are saying. Hang in there, you got this!