Crispaholic

Thank you for the response.....I am scared to call my nurse as she will just take some of the saline out and I don't want it as I want to actually lose weight this time and I am already 7lbs down

I have a 10ml band and now have 6.5ml fill only on the 5th of January I am having heartburn when I eat and after...is my band too tight?

Thanks for all the support....I think thats why I came back on ..... My friends don't get it as I am slim on the bottom size 12 but top heavy so men love it ....skinny legs and arms but all chest..... I am not big but I feel huge in my head...... I know I get bored and eat.....my whole eating habits have changed from being a bulk comfort eater to eating sweet things which I never ate.... Its unusual for me as I got operated in England with a BMI of 35 costing me E7,000 because they would not operate in Ireland with a BMI of under 40 plus its E18,000 to get the operation privately in Ireland.... I have gone to therapy and I can trace my bad eating to moving as a child and having my mother sick in hospital during the teenage years....but I am an adult now and know its up to me to lose it.... I am going back to the nurse on Monday and she is very nice....but did say it may not just be for me.... I think I thought the band would change my life....when it is me who can only change it....

I feel depressed I have lost my job and the life I thought I would have post band had not happened.... I am now 14st 6lbs and feel like shit.....I seem to be able to cheat the band....or more like cheat myself.... I suffer social anxiety when I am out eating and cannot cope with the stress of eating out with friends....however when I am home I can eat..... I have stayed away from the chips and fast food...I missed bread rolls with cheeses, salad and onion....I seem to have become a terrible eater..... I am back on Monday to my nurse...I have 6.25mls in a 10ml band...she is now saying I may have to get it all emptied if I do not lose weight as the band does not work for everyone...depressed.com

Thanks lellow.......I think I have become obsessed now with my band....I was letting it get in the way of my weight loss.....I was afraid of being afraid of being sick....if that makes sense.....my natural reaction is to throw up instead of letting the food work through the band....so I have actually become an unhealthy eater....I used to have more healthy balanced meals in variety prior to my bad but well ate massive portions.....its coping with getting my head around the temporary pain / or waiting for the food to pass that I need to address Thanks for all the support....I had not been on for a while ...but returned again like the 'prodicial bandster' to be embraced by you all

Thanks Elcee.....you helped me before and it seems you are helping me again....I just panic so I think I avoided the harsh foods....and sat over and fought with my food....I used to love to go out to eat now I nearly need a Xanax to stop myself from worrying and getting anxious....my cholesterol has also jumped from 4.3 to 6!

I seem to have a love hate relationship with my band....I am 3 years post op and I am now at 5.5 mls in my band.....I am staying around 13st 12lbs ( 194 lbs ) at 5ft 6 ....I was 173lbs at my lowest.....now my cholestreol has gone up to 6 and i suffer social anxiety when I eat out....I am afraid I will get sick when I am out.....does anyone have any advice....

I would be starving in my head but not physically....I would want to eat everything but knowing I can't .....your restriction will kick in when you eat the thougher foods....

I got a fill in Feb and all has been fine since....I am over 2 years post op I was not what you would have called big when operated on but all is fine now....managing to keep the weight steady....which is making me happy....Sam or Mary from Belfast or Cork where doing the fills .....not too sure who is doing them now in Dublin

You will gain for a week or two.....but give it a month before you start weighing....plus muscle weights heavier than fat....so watch what exercises you are doing... a marathon runner is so thin but a sprinter is huge and full of muscle....swimming is great for losing weight without bulking up.....

Well 8 lbs down in 10 days since I cleared the house of junk and started tracking again.....definitely tracking .....makes you realize what you are eating....and more importantly forgetting to eat at regular intervals.....by tracking I know to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and light snacks....I have not felt hungry....Thank God back on track

I had that problem....what I did was suck on an flavoured ice cube.....you are to drink 15 minutes prior to eating so you feel fuller when you eat and drink 45 minutes after eating....I forget sometimes and drink and then vomit....so sucking a flavoured ice cube

Well I confessed I am a food addict....but food is not going to win...like you I had surgery...2 years on the 1st of July....God I forgot my anniversary .....just realised it now.....and lost slowly...regained and losing again....I did what Elcee on here told me to remove all the temptation out of my house...if I want some thing sweet now I have to actually go and buy it....its a life struggle ....so I have gone back to the weight watchers tracking and smaller portion sizes....I cannot do the small plate eating...it just does not look right so I fill the other side of my plate with iceberg lettuce so I trick myself to thinking I am eating loads....crazy as it sounds but it works....also drink lots of water prior....I have also started to eat raw carrots ....for me its just a case of having something in my hand to eat not actually what I eat....as the song goes...One day at a time

Getting stuck for me ....is eating and all of a sudden feeling a tight feeling in the centre of my chest between the breast bone....bread for me is one of those foods that gets 'stuck' for me....the bread goes down fast then I get a tight feeling in my chest....pain....if I don't vomit....the pain stays ...then you feel the bread move down slowly and the pain goes......I can physically feel the bread move