I can eat less than 8oz of food and I am full well 2 hours later I am hungry again. Is anyone else experiencing this. I am stuck between 200.5 and 201 for 2 weeks, do you think a fill will work.

I can sympathize with you Jay....I really thought this last fill was going to work for me. I am really battling the head-hunger issues these last couple of weeks. :-(

PHooey, those scales! Well, when I come to that point I ask myself a couple of questions:

1) Am I mostly eating hard protein first? (for fullness)

2) Can I change up my diet and exercise to spark my weightloss? (exercise more or different, add a meal or snack)

Sometimes, I stop losing for a few weeks. Then, BAMM it comes off almost overnight (2-3 pounds).

Give a little more time, then schedule a fill. Your surgeon and you can decide together..

You are doing terrific! Shawn

This reminds me of what happened to MsJoy. She actually gained a couple of pounds and in the process LOST several inches. I should know, I'm the one standing on my head taking the measurements. Give your body a chance to re-adjust and then see what it can lose.

whatcha eatin'? That might matter more than the amount you are eating. Let us know?

I was happy to see this post because my scale has been going up and down now for about two weeks and it's making me crazy. I'm able to eat a horse one day and then I can't eat anything the next. (probably still full from eating a horse) lol.

I drink whey protein shakes for breakfast. Lean cuisine for lunch. sometimes left overs which consist of baked or boiled chicken, gumbo or some type of rice. I snack on sugar free pudding 3.5oz or sugar free candy 1pc. Cheese and crackers or peanut butter and crackers. Once I get home from work I am really not hungry. I eat lunch at 11:30 and by 2 or 2:30 I am starving.

i eat protein shake for breakfast, lean cusine for lunch and a sensible or not so sensible dinner.

b-8am

L-11:30

D-6 or 7

After lunch around 2-2:30 I am starving.

Heyas Jaygerlo5

Are you drinking with your meals? Fluids with meals will wash the food right through the pouch and leave you hungry quicker.

The Lean Cuisine meals you are eating.. do they usually have a lot of rice or Pasta? You said you're eating rice with dinner as well. And you have crackers for Snacks. All of those our flour carbs which can make you hungrier (they do me). They certainly don't hang around long, they are passed quickly through the stomach, leaving you hungry quicker.

For meals and snacks more solid Proteins. Cream cheese on lean ham slices. I think five of those with 2 TBS of like vegetable garden cream cheese are so filling. Do you like tuna? A can of tuna, mixed with a couple of TBS of fat free dressing is awesome, or mixed with a green salad it makes a great lunch. Cottage cheese with some fruit is filling as well. These kinds of foods will stick with you longer.

Now, that being said. My doctor is fills us if we are hungry in under 4 hours after eating a normal meal. Maybe you need a fill? Be sure you're eating right before you decide this though. It's not good to be too tight.