So this maybe a silly question, but do most bandsters have some liquid taken out after they've met their weight goal?? Because it would seem that if you continuously loosing weight, it would keep going and going past your goal and past healthy weight, and then you would become underweight and maybe even sickly... But if you do have some fluid take out so you can maintain instead of lose, do people tend to gain weight back? Or maybe that's how you know too much has been taken out and then you would get a slight fill again?? I'm not at my goal yet...another 30-40lbs to go, but I was just wondering what the future holds for me. Thank you

I just asked this question to my nutritionist last week. She said that my surgeon's protocol is to loosen the band after a certain number of years (I can't remember how many) at goal weight. The reason for this is to avoid any complications linked with a potentially-inflammatory implanted device, especially as one gets older.

My surgeon has observed that by that time...(the certain number of years maintaining), the patient has acquired the eating and exercise habit/mindset etc that will prevent him/her from gaining the weight back. If the patient observes weight gain after the band losening, he/she is instructed to return for a fill immediately.

Your body would not continually lose weight once you are at goal. Your doctor at that point would recommend how many calories you need to eat to keep that weight. Your body will only lose too much weight and become sickly if you are anorexic. I don't know of any people with the band that have gotten to that point. You don't need your band loosened to keep from continuing to lose weigh If you eat enough calories that could never happen. If your band is that tight to begin with that is not healthy. I have had my band at the same tightness for over three years and no Fluid removed.

As your weight decreases so do your caloric needs. Kinda balances itself out