Hello all! It has been a long time since I visited ANY support groups or websites! I have bascially given up on my band...but it is a new year and time to GET IT TOGETHER! I have had 6 fills with NO restriction...ever! I have not lost a pound and my surgery was in 2003! So, I do not know what it is like to be "filled". I will be getting my first fill in a VERY long time...do y'all have ANY suggestions? I totally eat what I want (except any type of pita bread)...I now drink with my meals! I have lost all band rules from my conscience! I do everything wrong! HELP! Where should I go for a pep-talk?

At first I watched what I ate..but as time went on, I was back to old habits. I may have lost 10 pounds the first month or so...but once I figured out that I could eat again...I DID!

Every year I want to get this eating under control. As a matter of fact, I ran 1 mile every day fo two months this summer! EVERY DAY! BUT...please don't ream me out....but I ate Cookies and milk EVERY night afterwards! The cookies that you bake in the oven!!!

The behavioral changes need to come from the inside...I KNOW! It is that I crave sweets SOOOOOOOOO bad! I have no control over it! It is like I am addicted! I smoked for 14 years...and quit cold turkey! I know that I am addicted to sugar! After I eat Breakfast, lunch AND dinner...30 minutes later, I want something sweet! I have NO will power. No diet has ever worked for me (except Phen-Fen). I actually got to a size 4 on P-Fen! Now, I am a size 22 YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6 fills and no restriction? I am a prebander so this kind of scares me. Have you ever had your band looked at? Is there a leak?

EVERY fill was done under floro! So, yes the band was looked at every time. It did not leak, either. My fill doctor is very kind but also unexperienced. He would say things like..."You have such a cute personality, you don't need to be skinny." I think that he was trying to be nice because I was spending a small fortune on fills and getting no where!

I was banded in Mexico but found a fill dr before I left. They put in an 11cm band...which I read is hard to fill.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think maybe this doctor is taking your money! Try getting a fill with a different doctor... you should NOT be able to eat everything... (this is WHY I'm getting the band)

So you've never had ANY restriction?? I'd be SO mad at my doctor after two years like this. Did they just put an really huge band on your stomach?

My Dr allows me to come back within a week to add/subtract from my band if the fill did not work out, no extra cost. Find a new fill Dr, my advice.

Good luck!

Tomorrow I will get a new fill from a different doctor! Wish me luck and keep me in your thoughts! If this doesn't work...I'll probably have it taken out!