I am just finishing up my 9th week. Was just thinking about a day where I might forget that I have the band and maybe eat alot, or something I shouldnt eat. Right now it is always at the forefront of my mind. I dont really have a mind set that I am dieting, but more of kinda changing my thinking of food.

Diets I would feel deprived and hungry. Right now I am not hungry hardly ever, so I am viewing food as a nesessity. (except on saturdau mornings;))

Just curious if anyone has forgotten they were banded or is it always on your mind?

Admittedly I have a pretty conservative diet. I don't eat cake, cookies, chips, fried food on a regular basis. My doctor says (other than carbonated drinks) you should be able to eat all foods just smaller amounts. Since I don't have foods I can't eat I don't have problems eating something that will end up causing a problem.

I never forget about it, but I sure don't feel that Mental restriction that I always did when dieting....can't have this, can't have that. At this point, it is easier for me to make better choices most of the time. I just try to get my protein in first.

It's more that I don't think about it rather than forgetting about it altogether. I'd never "forget" and therefore eat bread in a restaurant or something, but I'd chalk that up to new habits, more than anything else.

I sometimes forget during days when i am busy and out with friends that I have the band.

I have had it for so long and food doesn't get stuck often, I am at my sweet spot ( a tad overfilled that is what reminds me), and I enjoy any foods in smaller portions.

It won't always be on your mind, controling what you eat etc. You will get used to be and learn to live with it easily.

At first, the band was on my mind 24/7 just like being fat was before getting the band. Now it has become more a part of me and it isn't on my mind much at all. After almost 2 years, the band almost feels like a body part I've always had. It all becomes sort of second nature. I even forgot what the old way of feeling "full" feels like. There are many foods that I will never be able to eat again, but now they are like the foods I wouldn't eat before just because I didn't like them. Before the band I would never eat things like liver or brussel sprouts just for the simple fact I did not like them. Now my list of foods that don't appeal to me is just longer. It's not like the deprived feeling I thought I would have. After a few episodes of being stuck or PBs or slime, my brain has been reprogramed and it is very rare for those things to happen.