Okay. I've had my fourth fill for a couple of weeks now. Sometimes I can eat solid foods...sometimes I can't which is really aggrevating. Especially when i'm hungry and try to eat and then I can't. For example today for lunch. I got some chili. Had one bite of a piece of the meat and a bean and then pb'd for over an hour. I just don't get it. I'm not pms'ing so i'm not bloated. I wonder if stress affects the band? Or maybe the band just does what it wants to do. I'm glad i have it, but I would like to eat when i'm hungry. Know what i mean, guys?

Yes, the band can be very wishy washy. I don't think there is anything about it that you can depend on. Somedays I can eat and eat and eat. Other days, I can't get anything down. I've tried to mentally keep track of what could be happening to tighten it (humidity, heat, stress, exercise, etc.) Have never come up with an answer. It is frustrating when you have something really good in front of you that you can't get down, but then I think, boy - look at the amount of calories it just saved me from consuming!

I do believe stress plays a big part in how your band "behaves"!

Marie's right, and especially to use the quotes around "behaves." It's not the band that's wishy-washy, it's your body. The band is a fixed system made of mostly solid materials, so it's not the agent of the changing restriction (in the absence of a leak or other malfunction, that is).

There's no explaining the way our bodies behave, though, and I agree it's frustrating!! I too have had days where I just can't get anything past two bites down, and others where it seems like everything gets by. I've been unable to isolate the triggers so I've stopped trying. Days where I can't eat are GOOD days, though, because I know the next day things might be different. And since I'm not done losing weight I embrace those times of greater restriction.

That is, after all, why we have the band, right? :mad:

O.K., Leatha, you're right! But it's easy to "forget" sometimes when that juicy grilled shrimp is placed in front of me. Then I find out "my eyes really are bigger than my stomach"! :mad:

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O.K., Leatha, you're right! But it's easy to "forget" sometimes when that juicy grilled shrimp is placed in front of me. Then I find out "my eyes really are bigger than my stomach"! :mad:

gf, you are preachin to the choir.. lol. i have become quite accustomed to bringing home the box. i even ask for it now at the beginning. lol. however, it's funny how when you don't have that restriction anymore, you miss it terribly.