I have a dilema. I have good restriction with 3.0 but I am crazy hungry. My hunger comes back in 2 hours. Will a fill help me or do I need an appetite suppressent or something like that.

When you eat are you eating solid protien and are you eating your protien first? Are you abstaining from fluids for 1hour after eating? If you are doing these things then I would go in and ask for a small fill and see how it goes. Can you eat bread? The first thing my fill nurse asks me is if I can eat bread, and if the answer is yes she gives me a fill. Good luck

I can definitely eat bread, just not much of it. I spoke to my surgeon earlier and its determined that I eat too soft of a diet. He wants me to move to more solids so that is the course of action I am following for a week.

I just had a small fill and am having the same problem.

I entirely disagree with being able to eat bread meaning you need more restriction. I'm now eating little enough that were I to be filled more I'd be severely worried about general nutrition. Some people can just eat bread is all, and I'm one of them. I most definitely dont need to be any tighter.

Since the fill, I've really started following bandster rules a bit more closely as I've not really needed to till now, have lost weight well. So solid Protein, no drinking.

What's happened to me is that now I'm ridiculously and utterly STARVING within 2 hours of a meal because the meal was so small. I'm tall and I run a lot, I burn quite a lot of energy in the average day as I'm also really active on a general basis. So I do need to eat.

I'm experimenting with dropping my 3 meals a day routine and adding two good Snacks, as I simply cannot eat enough now to get me through to the next meal.

So I dont really think more fill will solve your problems, its more managing how you eat to fuel yourself throughout the day.

The solid proteins should curb your hunger longer. Good luck.

You may not be eating enough solid protein. Increase solid intake wait one hour before drinking and drink a glass of water when you get crazy hungry. Is the crazy hungry head or stomach hunger? I get intense stomach hunger, growling and hiccups but thats NOT when I expereince the crazy hungry head hunger. Amazing I can turn off the growling and physical hunger but if the head hunger hits Im in trouble!! Havent beat that demon yet! Luckily my band keeps it in check. Good luck!

I didn't mean that ability to eat bread is the single factor in determinig good restriction. Just that most (not all) bandsters when they reach good restriction can't. If I went in and was having other signs of being plenty tight enough they would not give me more fill, nor should they based on bread intake alone.

Jachut, I don't think there is anything wrong with adding a couple of snacks in there. A lot of people (me included) have snacks in between their meals, and still lose consistently. It also helps keep your metabolism going if you are eating several small meals throughout the day. I say go for it. And Julie, maybe that would help you as well--if you are eating very small amounts at your meals, a snack in between isn't going to hurt. I like to have a piece of string cheese, or a South Beach Diet 100 calorie snack bar, and it really does satisfy my hunger till the next meal.

Connie, thanks for the post. I am doing much better since moving to solids. I am down 2 lbs this week. Julie