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Ok this is really getting to me. Yesterday was great! Did my exercise in the morning, ate, worked, and spent time with the family. This morning, got up exercised and now can't eat. I mean vomiting, nausea the whole thing.

Does anyone else have days like this?

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You should fill in your profile so we know more about you and your journey?

Vomiting or PBing? Vomiting is not good and can cause a band slip. You might want to see your doctor.

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Unless you recently had your surgery, nausea isn't band related but can affect the band.

tmf is right, don't really know how to reply without knowing anything else.

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I have trouble eating often, but I've worked through it and found it's mostly in my head. You never could have convinced me of that a year ago though. I was sure it was the band and problems. Even now still, if I let those thoughts creep into my head as I sit down to eat, I can experience problems. I just feel full and like I'll be sick if I try to eat anything. It helps if I try to relax and breathe deep and get "out of my head" about eating and just tackle it like something I need to do like brushing my teeth. Look for any consistencies in symptoms or habits when this happens to try to figure out what's causing it. If you have a really bad spell at a meal, don't try to force it. Drink a Protein Shake instead and just move on to the next meal.

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SOMETIMES, that 'trouble eating' for ME eventually proved to be that of a previously unrecognized status, of being "NOT" hungry.

It took a while to come to recognize the difference between 'not eating' and 'not hungry'.

When I discovered SOMETIMES even just "ONE" bite was plenty to become satiated, much of those issues resolved...much of the time.

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some days, if i am super stressed at work like i was this week, i wasnt hungry a bit..but i do drink alot....agree with tmf and lellow, vomit is not a good thing..if it happens more than once, let you dr know

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Using this site from my phone does not allow me to put info about me like my progress or anything, unless i write it all out.

If I'm not hungry I don't eat, but sometimes I'm so hungry I take a bit, then I can't take another. Like i feel sick and want/need to vomit to stop that feeling. My band as not slipped. I have seen my doctors, and all is ok. maybe it is all in my head.

Today turned out great. I couldn't eat Breakfast, but lunch/dinner was ok. Ate a little and had a Protein Drink with no problem:)

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I think your direct observations such as "If I'm not hungry I don't eat, but sometimes I'm so hungry I take a bit, then I can't take another. Like i feel sick and want/need to vomit to stop that feeling" are great indicators of what may well be happening.

It was totally surprising to learn that sometimes ONE bite was plenty...against habit and decades of bad conditioning by all around us...yet there it was.

MOST of my similar complaints identical to the one you described, resolved by treating 'eating' as a resolution to 'hunger'. IE: "one bite" didn't necessarily mean EAT THE WHOLE THING.

One helpful tool is to actually chart what you eat and when WITH COMMENTS. As you review your history a week or a month later, you can evaluated trends in your own progress.

A very useful phase is to recognize the advantages of the ONE bite= NOT hungry ! Yes, it truly happens.

The hard part later, is to remember that and continue not taking the second or 22nd bite.

Since they had to remove most of my fill about 6 months ago, I have come to appreciate being able to eat what is an approximately 'normo' size meal without issues.

It is very beneficial IMHO to pay attention to what, where, when and why I do eat, along with such other control items as "how fast" and what the actual sensory pleasure of the food is, rather than cram it in with my eating shovel as rapidly as possible, per perOp days.

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