Restriction is great! I'm actually having to force myself to eat because 1) I'm not very hungry at all, and 2) nothing sounds good! No cravings, nothing! :whoo: :clap2:

Laurend,

I am so happy to read your post. So many are negative and I need positive right now. I will be banded soon and am trying to read as much as I can. I want to feel just like you described when I'm there. Thank you!

Laurend,

I am so happy to read your post. So many are negative and I need positive right now. I will be banded soon and am trying to read as much as I can. I want to feel just like you described when I'm there. Thank you!

Getting to restriction is a real pain in the ass, but it's wonderful once you are there. I'll think good thoughts for you and I hope your banding goes well!

I think if I was any stricter, I couldn't get liquids down. I think I may be just like .1cc too tight.. But I'm too afraid to have it taken down, knowing how stingy he is with being filled, and having to wait a month..and I hear about losing weight, it loosens up, etc.

And when I am consciously eating protein first, and trying to stay full all day on it.. it doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe it is just head hunger.. but after dinner I still feel like eating everything in sight.. You don't have this anymore?

Makes me think mine really just is head hunger. I try to curb it with a healthy low cal snack, but I always want more.

I think if I was any stricter, I couldn't get liquids down. I think I may be just like .1cc too tight.. But I'm too afraid to have it taken down, knowing how stingy he is with being filled, and having to wait a month..and I hear about losing weight, it loosens up, etc.

And when I am consciously eating protein first, and trying to stay full all day on it.. it doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe it is just head hunger.. but after dinner I still feel like eating everything in sight.. You don't have this anymore?

Makes me think mine really just is head hunger. I try to curb it with a healthy low cal snack, but I always want more.

I haven't really felt like that since this last fill. I mean, I really do have to almost force myself to eat. I'll be hungry at first, but once I start eating, the food isn't really that appetizing. Before this fill, I was almost compulsively eating. I'd have to force myself to stop because I got uncomfortably full, yet I still wanted to eat. I went to Starbucks on my drive back to Kentucky on Thursday and basically had to force myself to finish my drink (just an iced coffee with a little cream and vanilla syrup). I didn't even get the size I was usually getting before this fill. I had to sip it so slowly that it was a little watery towards the end. Before, I'd suck down a large iced coffee in less than 5 minutes.

I don't know what it is about it that is curbing my head hunger. Maybe it's just that I was never really a grazer. In the past, I'd always wait until I was absolutely famished before I'd eat, and then wind up hoovering a massive amount of food. If I didn't wait so long, I never ate a huge amount. Maybe this fill is just putting enough pressure on the nerve in my stomach that I never get to the point of feeling like I was starving. I don't know, but I like it, whatever it is. :biggrin1:

I have grazer days. I'm not always a grazer, but I DEFINITELY have days where I just want to pick at everything.

I do find when I wait till I'm hungry (not eating anything till 5pm).. I'm ready to eat like a pig.. and I'll only be able to eat a couple bites, which is how I know restriction works.

And a lot of food IS NOT worth the bother, like you said. But I know the foods I have absolutely no problem with, and they seem to be in my house. Maybe THAT is the answer.

Congrats to you either way!!