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Am I just really lucky or does it work this way for anyone else?



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After a loss of a whole kilogram for the past four weeks, I had a .3ml fill yesterday, taking me up to 1.7 (I think).

I was really apprehensive about this one although I knew I needed it, I thought I'd be saying goodbye to the really good place I've been in with my band in favour of actually losing the other 20kg.

I ate lunch very very carefully after the fill, all fine. I went out for Mexican for dinner last night, all fine. Today everything I normally eat is going down.

But whereas I'd started picking and nibbling, my interest in food has just evaporated again. I can eat anything, I enjoy it but I'm not overly interested so a little bit is enough. But I dont have physical restriction - no hard stops, no actual real signs that the band is there (unless I scoff too fast), I just feel the normal full sensations that I felt before the band, except a lot sooner. And I have no real desire to eat between meals.

It seems to work exactly like an appetite suppressant (like Tenuate or Duromine) for me, without making me feel the need to get up and vacuum the house at 3 am. I can eat whatever when I decide its time to but just dont get really hungry.

I know I'm very lucky - but I never hear anyone else say that this is how it works for them.

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hmmmm I can only hope that it will be like that for me. I don't get my first fill until 1 Jun. I'll be interested also in hearing the other responses.

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OK - here is where I admit I've just been pacing the ensuite spitting in the sink for the better part of an hour, groan. Big fat piece of porterhouse for dinner. What a totally stupid thing to try to eat the day after a fill hehe, I can eat cheap steak, the thin BBQ stuff no problem but this was a really fat juicy one. I only had a teensie bit.

But still no PB, lol. God knows what I'd have to eat to actually bring it back up again. I did get wicked hiccups though.

But what I said above is true too. It was $18 worth of steak for dinner, I can sure give that up easily enough. eggs are much cheaper!

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Jacqui, sorry about the sliming/after porterhouse. However, it great that the band is serving as a appetite supressant. I am still not sure, for me, why I lost most of my cravings the first 6 months. Was it that I was "gung ho" after banding and very motivated, or did it do something to my stomach/brain that made my appetite/cravings disappear?

Anyway...I am now over 8 months post-band and have found some of my cravings. YUK!!

Shawn

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I am confused..

You say you just got more fill, but you can eat anything and dont have physical restriction - no hard stops, no actual real signs that the band is there. "I can eat whatever when I decide its time to but just dont get really hungry."

Then you post "pacing the ensuite spitting in the sink for the better part of an hour, groan" 'wicked hiccups though.'

.........

My interest in food evaporated too when I had a good fill. I didnt care about any of my favorit foods, about grocery shopping, about going out to eat, I could eat a tiny bit of food, no variety at all... and I was FINE.

I didnt rely on hard stops, I didnt PB ever, I certainly never had to spit at a sink for an hour. (yikes)... I didnt get golf balls, or burning sensations.. etc ect..

BUT I SURE AND THE HECK DID have physical restriction and many actual real signs that the band was there. I could not eat solids for three weeks and then very little after that (fish sticks, chips, cookies)....

I felt very lucky. I actually felt like it was some kind of magic.. unreal.

BUt You got to eat mexican, and meals, and whatever you wanted but choose not to... then when you tried steak you suffered alot.. so, I dont really understand.....

Maybe your body WAS responding to a stop signal, but you didnt notice it or feel it because your used to feeling hard stops, and think physical restriction is when your at the sink for an hour, glad its not a PB. (it didnt come up cuz it was STUCK, thus the slime production, I think I Pb might of been better??)

I dont know.. I may be way off base. Sorry if I am.

Havent you ever ate when you were not hungry? Ate cuz the food was yummy?

Appetite supressants do not take away cravings, just physical hunger.

Are you sure you were not eating between meals and more at meals because you felt full? Or because you just didnt have any interest in it.

You said both things.

I ask because the band made me not have any interest in food also, but I dont think it had anything to do with me not being hungry, as I have always craved foods regardless if I was hungry or not.

??

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Hehehe, Nykee, I spoke a bit too soon. The steak incident was the first sign of full on restriction I've ever had - so maybe I cant eat anything now.

As to the appetite supressant thing - well I get hungry when its time to eat but in between, just no interest. I've always been someone who would eat regardless of whether or not I'm hungry too so this no interest thing is really new to me since banding.

What I really meant was that despite not having restriction as most people refer to it the band still works for me. Um, then I ate the steak, hehe.

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OK, I get ya better.

For me, I had the disinterest... BUt I definately had restriction.

I wasnt testing the boundaries of my restriction... or all upset over how restricted I was..

I didnt care one bit..

It was really really amazing.. (I felt this for about 3 months, I lost 30 pounds, and then I too got another fill, and it ruined my sweet spot, and I havent got it back YET!..grrrr)

I am glad to hear others feel it too.

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