Ok, I know I am just 3 weeks post op right now but everything is going so great! I am not craving anything what-so-ever and I am satisfied all the time with eating meals like just a scrambled egg with a little cheese for breakfast, about 3/4 C of refried beans with a little cheese mixed in for lunch and a piece of baked or sauteed fish for dinner. I also have a low carb sugar free protein drink each day to insure that I am getting all my protein in and I take my vitamins.

PLEASE tell me that this is not just the honeymoon!

PLEASE tell me that as I go on with the weight loss, eventually getting fills along the way, that this can continue on just the way it is!

IF THIS IS THE HONEYMOON, I DON'T EVER WANT IT TO END!!!! :nervous

I know how you feel. I'm 2 weeks post op and tomorrow I'm starting pureed. I'm still not hungry and wondering if this is even possible. So many other posts I've read that people said as early as 4 days post op or sooner that they were already hungry. I just hope it continues like this. No hunger pains and just eat my meals throughout the day I'd be pretty much set.

Of course this past weekend I wasn't seeing it this way. I had a wedding reception with appetizers and dinner included in it on Saturday and Sunday my mom decided to have a family picnic. Needless to say I'm on full liquids only and can't have any of the food I saw so, I lost it a couple times. I think I'm better now, not ok but better. I miss the chewingand the scale didn't move this week. Aside from that everything is all right.

Heather, it sounds to me like you are doing just fine. Isn't it nice not to have to be hungry and fighting it all the time?

I'm still hoping someone who is way far post op will tell me it can stay this way and THIS IS NOT JUST THE HONEYMOON!

:guess

Not to burst your bubble....

Bandster hell is right around the corner!

I am still waiting to get back to feeling like I did the first 3 weeks after surgery.

I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Laura. There is a chance this might not end. But there is also a chance I will someday win the lottery.

Do your best to keep up these good spirits, for me Bandster Hell wasn't as bad as I've read it was for others, but it still happened. And yes, the cravings came back, the head hunger came on BIG time. But you get through it, just as you get through life, one day at a time.

Oh, you don't know how badly I hope you are both wrong! So you really believe that eventually everyone goes through bandster hell? Well, I'll just have to try and pray alot! I was really hoping that if it had to happen that it wouldn't happen until after I get a fill.

How DO fills play into the bandster hell thing???

Bandster hell is when you basically feel like you never had the surgery. It hit me about 4 weeks post-op. So you can eat like before, and you feel like you just wasted your $$! Then you get your first fill, and you're on your way to proper restriction. However, for me.. my doctor does lil baby fills and WON'T FILL ME UP!! So, I've been in a prolonged bandster hell. My wish for you, is that you get proper restriction on your first fill

Thank you Laura..I hope I get good restriction the first fill, too. Problem is that I can't get my first fill until

October 22!!! :faint:

That's about my same spread, I was banded April 16, and they wouldn't do my first fill till June 5th.. and ever since, every fill is TOO SMALL!!! and he makes me wait a whole month (and normally a week due to scheduling) to get in for another. My next is Sept. 13th and I'm counting down the days painfully.