What does restriction feel like? How do you know physically when you are in the green zone? I had my second fill last week (.8cc) which puts me at 4.0cc... Before that my weight loss was at a stand still and then I suddenly dropped 7lbs a couple of days before my fill (surgery date 07/14/2010). I have been working out like crazy and it makes it hard to know if the loss is because the band is working or if it is from exercising...

Restriction feels like I am satisfied with less food. It has to do with hunger. I don't get hungry as often, it takes less food to fill me up. The green zone for me is that I can eat most foods if eaten slowly, chewed well, and small bites are taken. It also means that I get hungry, I mean physically hungry, every 3-4 hours. I still fight my appetite, but that is different.

You cannot say if the weight loss is from the band or the exercise. It is from burning more calories than you consume. That is a simplistic view, of course. Sometimes our bodies hang on to pounds even though the math says we sould be down. The BAM, it lets go.

When I was actively losing, I'd lose a few pounds one week, then nothing for two weeks, then down two, then stay the same, then up one, then down three. It was not steady from week to week, but was a downward trend overall.

Prior the 1st 4 or 5 fills - it kinda felt like a dull pain but I barely had any restriction until maybe the 5th one but now since hitting my sweet spot I feel full after only eating a little bit.

I will be honest. I haven't been exercising. My last fill in late June has cause me to lose about a pound per week since then (I was 195 - now 182) and that includes eating stuff my doctor would roll his eyes at.