So i have had good restriction for three or four weeks now. I'm starting to notice i can eat quite a bit...at night. I know this has been covered before. I just can't believe that during the day I can't eat but a few bites, even then i often PB, but at night (the last couple nights) I have been able to eat a full meal. I JUST had lunch, only at a few bites, and was afraid i was going to puke in the restaurant. The unfortunate thing about this AM/PM thing is...most of us really need the support at night. It's just like the band allowing you to eat Cheetos, but not meat (i can eat meat, just making a point). When I have bad scale days (like today) I wonder if I should have gone by-pass.

Also, are hot liquids death to the band? I admit I had hot tea with dinner last night as I was so cold.

I don't think hot liquids are a problem. However, I was told to not drink with my meals. Not only because it tends to wash food through the pouch, defeating the purpose, but I found that it tended to kind of clog me up with some foods.

Have you considered a small unfill?

Maybe the hot tea opened you up. Maybe try having something hot to drink before you try and eat lunch. I don't have a particular time I can eat or not eat. I seem to be able to eat all the time, just not as hungry in the morning.

I don't want to unfill. I'm happy when the band is tight, unhappy when it lets me eat a full resturant meal.

I know I am not supposed to drink with meals, I was cheating last night...as the scale reflected this morning. I know some people don't believe in daily weight-ins, but I need to be punished when i'm bad.:eek:

Hi~

I am noticing the same thing with my band recently. I finally have some real restriction and I thought today that maybe it was too much b/c I can barely eat all day. Then, I can come home and eat a "normal" dinner. I think my band just loosens up throughout the day b/c I don't even drink hot stuff usually.

Same problem here. Is there anything we can do to reverse the time frame so it will be tight at night and not during the morning? I can't even imagine how much and how fast I could lose if it was like that! My fill Dr. told me that if I didn't eat past 6:30 at night, then I wouldn't be so tight in the AM but that doesn't seem to work for me.

if i could have not eaten after 6:30...i wouldn't have needed the band in the first place...lol

I agree with Barbara. Could be that the hot tea opened you up. I would try dinner without any liquids to see if you have better restriction. Good luck.

Mine's tight at night and a little iffy in the morning but I can eat plenty during the day. It works well for me, since generally I eat a very small dinner, but for some unknown reason, it gives me a reprieve if I eat out (probably because I usually have a glass of wine) and I never seem to have trouble in a restaurant or anything, yet at home, at times I have put my dinner aside completely becuase I just cant be bothered trying to eat it.

I never ever was a night eater though, so perhaps that has something to do with it.