I am wondering if your band is always on ur mind (other than when you eat)? Do you find yourself forgetting it is even there sometimes? I guess i am wondering if you can always feel the device constricting the stomach or if you can go about your day feeling as if nothing foreign is in there. ( obviously for those a couple months out and fully healed).

I am only out about 13 days, but yes, I'm pretty sure that is what I am feeling...

I go about my day as if nothing is there. The only reminder I generally have is when I'm eating.

When I first saw your question I was ready to say no, but truth is I always think and plan everything around my band. I live basically meal to meal day to day. I know one thing. It is working!!!!

I don't feel mine...physically wouldn't know its there, unless I'm eating or maybe drinking something thick or fast. Just letting it do its thing...

I think about mine when I eat or feel the port. Other than that, no.

I can't feel my band but this question has come up before and some bandsters say they think they can feel it. I'm programmed now to eat like it's there and I only eat small and chew big.

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I don't think about it at all unless I'm eating. Because eating small bites and chewing til mush has become second nature to me, sometimes I don't even think about it when eating.

I do not feel the band its self, but I soooooo feel the port every day. It sits where my pants go around my waist and it actually is sore all the time. I have talked to me doctor about relocating it and he said he would. I want to get to my goal before I do it. (15lbs to go!)

When I was first healing after surgery I felt it but now I'm a year you and I don't notice it at all until I'm eating.

I don't feel mine...physically wouldn't know its there' date=' unless I'm eating or maybe drinking something thick or fast. Just letting it do its thing... [/quote']

I'm the exactly same way. There are some days I forget I even have it.

I have only had mine 3 weeks. I'm already at a plateau. I know what the problem is I am eating almost anything I want. I'm eating a lot less then before the band. I just recently started walking again. At 3 weeks with no fill should I still be loosing weight? Do I have to wait till I get a fill?

Bandashoop, I am so glad you asked this question, because everyone has answered a question for me. I do not want to sound negative, so you just helped me to know that what I am experiencing, is not normal, from others posting an answer to your question (many thanks everyone). I don't want to high jack your thread, so I will just say, I will be in contact with the doc's office today. Hopefully, it's an easy fix!

I purposefully keep my band in the forefront of my mind, but no, I can't "feel" the physical band. (I'm one month postop.) I am aware it is there when I eat or drink (my stomach now makes noises it never made before) and of course it lets me know when I need to push back from my plate. So I wouldn't say that I forget I have a band, no. Also, my incisions still make themselves known when my dress, shirt or waistband rubs against them...no forgetting there!

I can't feel it on the inside but I touch my stomach a couple of times each day and feel it there. It only makes itself felt when I'm eating or sometimes when I'm drinking.

Not any more...it has become a normal part of me...day to day....

I often refer to it as someone who has undergone a total knee surgery.....pre-op, post-op pain, frustration, anxiety......then about 6 months of intense rehab learning how to walk all over again...learn the rules.... (Band adjustment phase, Bandster Hell) after rehab then another 6 months re-learning how to do all your daily activities....then eventually, after you're all healed and after you're well adjusted to the new lifestyle....it's back to everyday living....you know it's there, but you really don't think too much about it....

I know people who have had bi-lateral knee replacements and they're back running marathons.....

I know the band is there, but I have gotten used to it......my eating changes, types of foods, and adhering to the rules in order to exist in the Green Zone, have all become a day to day Lifestyle...I am always in the Green Zone...it has become the "New Normal"

I don't think about calories......food portions.....how to chew, bite sizes, drinking while eating, taking it slow and easy, etc. etc. I did within the first 3-4 months, but no more....

I don't need to be reminding about the rules, or pull out a MFP to drive my car everyday....I've done it so often it has become second nature....

As I was learning....I got stuck, slimed, regurgitated very often...sometime 2-3 times a day BECAUSE I needed to change and learn if I wanted to remain and live in the Green Zone....and I did. And I have NOT gotten stuck in well over 18 months, yet I remain in the Green Zone having all that goes with it....

I do everything my non-fat skinny friends do every day....which is totally different from the way I used to do it before surgery...

Eventually you heal, learn the rules to live in the Green.....there is life AFTER this is all over....

People who come here and say they fell off the wagon and gained their weight back after 3 years (other than medical issues)...,,,,well, that's another topic altogether. I have my thoughts why that happens that I will keep to myself....