Admitting you need a slight unfill

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

I was banded 3/21/07. Lost 24 lbs by 5/3/07, when I had my first fill of 1cc. The only difference I feel after the fill is that some foods get momentarily "stuck"---pain in chest for a few seconds and then the feeling of relief as the food passes through...but it takes a lot to give me that "full" feeling. The feeling of being stuffed---Thanksgiving Day full---is what I crave ! I'm having another fill in 2 days and I hope to feel full with just a small amount of food...is that realistic???

Nope.

Being stuffed like a Tday turkey is not really the feeling we are looking for. Remember, the hardest part of banding is relearning old stuff. We USED to want to be stuffed full. Today we are looking for satisfied. Every 2nd or 3rd bite stop and think, are you still hungry or are you satisfied? You are thinking "fat" and that is what got us fat to begin with.

Being T-day turkey stuffed full is what causes slips and pouch/esophagus stretching. You really aren't looking for stuffed full, you are looking for "not hungry" ... that is a much safer bet.

It's sooo hard for us to wrap our brain around the concept of food being for survival. We eat to live, not live to eat. You simply don't need to be T-day stuffed, you need to be not hungry.