Sometimes I have good restriction. Sometimes it's not so good.

Sometimes I can hardly drink a thick drink and other times I can eat a slice of bread. I just never know if I can eat or not. I am learning that I really have to sneak up on my food and eat slowly and that is the hardest thing to do. Any tips on how to remember to slow it down? This is the biggest reason for my BP's.

I am not losing weight but for the first time in a long time I am not yo yoing up and down, dieting and binging, and driving myself nuts.

My plan (now that I'm 6 1/2 mos into this and only 4lbs down from my original pre op weight) is to diet the old fashioned way and lose the 25lbs that I'd done this to lose, and hope that at least after all the hard work of crash dieting, I'll not be able to easily gain it back.

What do you all think?

yes, the band is odd at times, some days you can eat more than others. I went on a diet the day I got home from the hospital, thinking it was the last one id ever have to do. this advice was given to me by an experienced bandster who had lost over 200lbs with her band so I reconed she knew what she was talking about lol. if I stray from the diet I gain or dont lose, but its a hec of a lot easier to diet with the band than without it, very easy in fact, but some days are easier than others.

if only there was a band that allowed a lettuce leaf a day through and nothing else lol

hi i felt same way i lost 7 lbs 5 weeks out but several in office had lost only 1 or 2 one lady sadly gained. we can all learn from each other