Hello everyone,

My name is Christie and ive had my band for 2 1/2 years now. the first year and a half was going great for me, i lost 100 lbs. i started out at 335 and got down to 224. now im gaining weight (back up to 260 and climbing) and cannot get myself back to where i was. i was doing soo well, i started having troubles with fills, i would get too much, wait too long, then have it taken out and back and forth so forth and so on, and its been a downward spiral since. i learned to eat around my band(junk) and i cant stop.. then on top of all of it, ive lost my motivation, and confidence in this. i was soo happy with myself and now i am depressed again feeling like a failure.

how do i pick my self up and start over, or have i lost my chance with this??? i still feel restriction at times but eat foods that just go threw the band instead of struggling. i know im taking the easy way out in eating the crap that i used to i just cant get myself back. could someone please help guide me back into the right direction again.

has anyone else gone threw this too?? any guidance will be greatly appreciated.

First of all, get all the junk out of the house. Don't buy it. If you have other members of the household who want it, let them go out to get it.

Next, remember that eating with the band shouldn't be a struggle. Who wants to live like that?

Make an appt. with your doctor about getting the proper fill. It might take doing it under flouro. Have you had an upper GI to see how things are going?

Buy the good, healthy foods that you were eating when you lost the 100 lbs. You can get back to that type of eating. You did it before, you can do it now. Just take it one day at a time. Don't look at it as how much you want to lose. Just say "today I am going to eat these healthy foods" and then do it. It will get easier.

But you do need to see your doctor to make sure everything with your band is okay. Eating slider & junk foods can be a sign of band problems.