Good Evening my band friends! I have a question.

I am on Mushys now as I have had no complications and feel GREAT! (Banded 11/22) My question is this... I know back preband - if I dieted hardcore - my stomach would 'shrink' or seem to as if I tried to eat regular again - I would feel full quicker. For example if you're sick for a few days and you don't eat and then your first meal after feeling better, you'd eat half the amount as normal.

Okay so I'm eating eggs and stuff and I feel sick if I go over a certain amount. If I eat more than a cup of food, I feel so overstuffed. (Like eating a whole dinner at Olive Garden - Pasta heavy feeling) Oh and I promise - I haven't eaten pasta. But I do love oatmeal. If I try to eat a whole packet - I feel really really full.

I know typically we don't have any restriction until the first fill and a few fills after that.

So is this 'only eating a cup at a time' thing just a case of the 'stomach shrinkage' or is it actual restriction?

Thanks in advance...

Hey there! Congrats on the band! From what I can tell by what you are saying, this is restriction, but mine went away rather quickly without the fill. I'm now on my 3rd fill (8cc in an 11cc band) and have restriction that comes and goes. Once you start with regular food and if you "forget" to chew properly, you will definitely feel it. It can tend to get rather painful going down until it passes through - it's an odd feeling too when it passes.

I was banded in February, started at 194 and am down to about 169. I don't eat the right kinds of foods though or I'd be at goal. But if I could do that, I wouldn't have needed the band.