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bolynn71
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hello all im brand new and need some help .. surgery was march 28th 2012 350 lbs 296 as of today . but havent lost any simce my fill.

Had my 3rd fill last thursday the 9th boy oh boy i have found how much food is my best friend even though im full i stil want to eat why ???? then i throw up ! since the fill i havent been wantting to do much of nothing with my work out . had any one else felt like this ?

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Sounds like you have head hunger. I think thats the hardest thing to beat. We have used food for our friend and outlet for so long that to just give it up is hard and fact is we have to have food to live so not like a drug addict we cant just say we wont be exposed to it anymore. I know there are times i have something i know i dont need and shouldnt eat. Or i eat to fast or something along that line and become sick. This is a learning process none of us in this group have become an expert yet. We are all learning to help the band work for us. I say relizing what the problem is one of the first big steps. I wish had a way to tell you to get over this step but the only thing i can tell you is keep trying and try to advoid things (foods) that tempt you to eat to much.

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thank you for your help it means a lot to me ! :)

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I also have been dealing with this lately. I was banded April 13th and haven't had a fill yet.

Up until the last week or so I have been able to overcome those temptations. Now I find myself eating when I am not hungry. If I keep myself busy and away from food it's easy to avoid the temptation but that has not been easy to do the past couple of weeks. When I get back to my regular school schedule in a couple of weeks (I'm a special ed aid) I expect that to help a lot. Until then I have a feeling I will be fighting myself quite a bit.

I go back to see my surgical PA on September 16th and think I will be getting a fill.

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Head hunger. We all have it. I just delt with it today. I find that if I have unhealthy food it makes the head hunger worse, especially the next day. I just keep repeating "It's ok to be hungry" Even though I know I'm not really hu fry and it's just head hunger.

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I do the grazing method when I'm bored. Eat when I'm not really hunger.

NO BUENO

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me too but i also end of throwing up then im sore bc nothing really comes up but thick flim and i hurt . going next week for my 4th fill happy with the 60lbs that is gone !!!

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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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