SandyM

I just hope you are not exchanging your health for some lbs. you can have both, but it does take some work and patience on our parts. You can still make better choices even if your band is on the tighter side such as tuna and chicken salad, not ice cream and Pringles. I have read the posts you speak of and see where they can be misleading, but the fact is, we do have to find a way to eat clean. we are where we are because of these bad habits with junk food.

Yes, maybe erosion. Corrosion has to do with metal and our bands are not.

Just gonna say it, your fixation on food made it easier to go back to smoking, but I don't think the band had anything to do with it. I'll never start back. I know this because to start back I have to make the conscious decision to smoke the 1st one. I did that once thinking I had control, til I went to quit again and realized I had less control than I thought. Not again.

Have you gone to youtube and looked up neck and face exercises. That would help some

Lol, it posted

Yes, now you will need to start reading the nutrition labels. After awhile you just kind of get it. Also you'll develop your go to food list. I think we all have one

Absolutely no issues whatsoever! All is going well.

Don't you hate predictive text, lol

Vomiting may cause your band to slip. It is expected that some meats might give you problems, but if you are vomiting after each bite, even if you chew well and take small bites, you may be too tight. This will lead to problems, one of which would be eating sliders instead of good foods. Can you eat fish?

If you can't get good foods down you are too tight. This will cause you to gain not lose.

Sounds like you got it . Keep us posted on your progress. I agree this can happen to anyone, it is after all a tool.

They tuck and sew the stomach. Sorta like the sleeve without the cutting

It's a phone app and a computer app that let's you track nutrition, wt loss and exercise

Happy New Years Bandista.

Great feeling. I'm at the same exact place as of Sunday. 60 lbs down, 29.8 bmi. Even though the ticker doesn't accept my decimals.

I didn't convert, I started out with this. I have no experience with the band alone, but best I can tell by reading, I didn't get the bandster hell spoken of. Before I started getting fills, I did get the full feeling like before banding, just a lot sooner, therefore, I started losing weight nicely. I feel once I've reached goal, if my band had to be removed for whatever reason, I could just have the plication and possibly do ok with it. Hope I don't have to test that theory though.

My knees are wore out so I can't do this, but if I could I would look into the couch to 5k app. Important thing with exercise is set a specific plan i.e. time, duration etc. as for the snacks...yes, very important to have a plan...more important is try to make your eating at meals and try to get out of habit of snacking period. The add up fast and pretty soon, you aren't eating meals at all, just grazing. You won't get the feelings of fullness that you need that way. This is just my opinion and you will get other feedback, much that will differ from mine. We all develop our own ways of making this work for us.

Start now. You are human. Figure out what you are doing wrong and ways to correct it and get back on track. You got this.

Lol, hubby and I ate at Applebees the other night and the waitress kept coming by asking if I would like a take out container. I was just a bit annoyed. I finally told her I wanted to eat my food there and she left me alone...at least until she offered desert. You should have seen the look of relief when we declined.

I eat a regular breakfast, but a very small one. I do ok, but I have to be very careful

This called bandster hell. You're going to need a lot of self control. Unfortunately this is easier said than done. Once you start getting fills this improves and even almost goes away. What I suggest for "head hunger" is drink unsweetened, non-carbonated drinKs. If it's not sugar your body is begging for, you might do broth. I find that diet hot chocolate or diet apple cider works for me.

It will get better after a few fills but it is gradual and be grateful for that because it takes time to learn to eat with a restricted band. Each fill, I've had to adjust how I eat a little more. As for tips, just follow your drs orders. My fills are pretty in eventful. Go in, get weighed, fill out a little questioneer, dr asks me a few questions gives me my fill has me drink and I'm done. Small pinch with fill. Some use fluoroscopy and also deaden, mine does neither. But he relies completely on what I tell him, so honesty is truly important to get my fills right.

Agree with the above. First take care of the problem of the port. Then if it was me I would at least consider a new WLS. No competition here, we do what's best for us each individually.

That is 2+ weeks. You should be pretty much healed by now

I do better with warm liquids after a stuck episode