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why am i still hungry after 2nd fill? is this normal

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It may take several fills before you stop getting hungry in between meals. It took my 6th fill before I was able to go 4 hours without getting hungry.

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i sure hope that it dosnt take that long i dont go for anther fill untill may 24th

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It does take that long. I did not understand this before the surgery. I didn't realize that they only add small increments of Fluid into your band because your stomach has to adjust each time they give you a fill. That is why you cannot eat solids for two days or maybe more depending on you. I am on my second fill and sometimes I am able to eat especially in the evening and sometimes I get discomfort and I stop eating. I go for my 3rd fill on May 14th and I can't wait. The nurses in my doctor's office tell me that the 3rd time is a charm and hopefully I wills start to feel restriction and start losing more weight. I am down 23 pounds since the onset but I am going back and forth on pounds for the last few months. I am hopeful that the next fill will be the one that gets me going. There is a post on this website that explains the fill process in detail, it really helped me to understand. If I find it I will come back and tell you where to locate it. Good luck and I will check in on you soon. It seems that we had our surgery about the same time.

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"They" say everyone's sweet spot if different....just gotta find it......I used Dr. Kim in Colleyville, TX and he told me that each person'd body sets the perfect weight loss ratio with the band......

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It wasnt until my fourth fill that I started feeling restriction.

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It does take that long. I did not understand this before the surgery. I didn't realize that they only add small increments of Fluid into your band because your stomach has to adjust each time they give you a fill. That is why you cannot eat solids for two days or maybe more depending on you. I am on my second fill and sometimes I am able to eat especially in the evening and sometimes I get discomfort and I stop eating. I go for my 3rd fill on May 14th and I can't wait. The nurses in my doctor's office tell me that the 3rd time is a charm and hopefully I wills start to feel restriction and start losing more weight. I am down 23 pounds since the onset but I am going back and forth on pounds for the last few months. I am hopeful that the next fill will be the one that gets me going. There is a post on this website that explains the fill process in detail, it really helped me to understand. If I find it I will come back and tell you where to locate it. Good luck and I will check in on you soon. It seems that we had our surgery about the same time.

Glad I am not the only one :)

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I was getting really stressed out that I was down 33 lbs since starting the pre-surgery diet and now I am starting to gain 1 lb here and there. It is driving me crazy. Glad I am not alone.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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