stacyinmckinney

From what I understand you have to get a fill at least once a month while you are trying to reach your goal for the weight to come off. I actually go every 3 weeks although my 3rd fill I had to have unfilled because it was so tight. Anyway, I got banded on 10/3/07 and just had my 4th fill.

Hi kat, thanks for the reply. I feel much better. You are right I need to take smaller bites (that is my problem that I am fighting). Even when I do I try to regulate how much I swallow at a time, but some larger bites make it past and I need to be more careful. Eating out is a huge problem now because I have no idea what to order. One day I can eat chicken salad and the next day same chicken salad gives me problems. I just haven't figured how to eat. Looks like tuna is the only thing that never gives me problems. URG! I will keep on keeping on as usual and would be more tolerable if I saw it melting away. boy how nice it would be to be at my goal already. Your SIL must be so excited! I think mentally I am having a problem too because my head wants to eat still and I think it is talking my stomach into it too! One of the reasons I was looking for a support group to attend. I still haven't found one close that meets. I think I will ask my doctor when I go see him next. I actually live in Texas. I am not sure how I ended up on your thread, but glad I did I am happy to hear your friends are ok. I couldn't imagine living where it snowed like that. We get ice maybe once a year for a few days and that is how I like it Take care!

I used Wade Barker in Dallas. He was very terrific! I had no complications!

Hi Kat, thank you very much for replying. I guess I feel this is going alot slower than I had hoped and it is alot harder too. I don't feel restricted enough meaning I can eat alot still (a whole plate of angel hair pasta), but restricted enough that alot of other foods I can't tolerate and I end up with a cup of slime which is so disgusting. I was banded on 10/3 and my 3rd fill Dec 20 ended up being too tight so they brought me back down to my 2nd level fill amt. I go back in Thurs to hopefully find a spot between where I am and where I was that will be the sweet spot because I just don't feel like this is helping me any. Like I said twice this week I ate a full plate of Pasta. I was done 22 pounds on Dec 20th which isn't that much for 3 months, but I think I have gained at least 3-4 pounds in the last 2 weeks since the unfill. Most everyone on here seems to be doing awesome! Frustrated.... Stacy

Banded Oct 3, 2007 having trouble. Need support...help!

There was no bread just the hotdog, but I will try to eat some more mushy stuff. So far today chicken salad is doing the trick. Thanks!

:help:I am having so much trouble eating. How can you eat anything? I am literally afraid to eat because of all the Pbing I end up doing. It is a stressful thing to eat now and I am afraid to eat out because I don't want to be sitting there spitting into a cup the whole meal (which I do to avoid spending the meal in the bathroom). I 've had 3 fills but my 3rd one had to be undone because I couldn't get liquid down it was so tight so I am back to the second fill amount. Here I still feel hungry yet I still have trouble keeping things down. I am frustrated! I don't want to take anymore out because I felt no restriction with my first fill. does this get better?

I don't want to get more of an unfill because I just got one last Thurs which brought me back to where my 2nd fill was over a month ago. I still feel like I can eat alot at this point, buy with the Pbing which is discouraging. I figure it is something I am doing because I just ate chicken salad and didn't have any problems, but a hot dog yesterday was no fun. I can't seem to figure out why some things are causing it and others are not.

Help I can't seem to stop eating sweets since I have no problems with bad stuff and have trouble getting good stuff to go down. URG! I honestly didn't think this would be this hard!

I am Pbing pretty much every meal sometimes producing as much of a cup of saliva/mucus and that sometimes is the result of just 3 bites. I don't know why. I feel like I am taking small bites and taking my time, but nothing seems to help. I am going to talk to my fill doctor when I go in on the 10th. Also alot of it is trying to find out what foods you can and cannot eat anymore with the fills. I think it is all a learning process.

Don't feel bad I have only lost 22 pounds. Boy is this slower than I thought. I see people that have lost over 35-50 pounds. How are you guys doing it?

<p>Ok so what am I doing wrong you guys. I got banded on 10/3 and am only down 15 pounds. HELP</p> And 10 of that was from the first week after surgery because I couldn't eat anything. I have had 2 fills already. I feel restricted and am only eating small meals but the weight doesn't want to come off. Is this not going to work for me?