Believe me, I'm not complaining about it, I'm just glad I'm not having to force myself to stop eating. After this last fill, I have very little interest in food. It just doesn't sound or look good anymore, KWIM?

I've had a serving of peas and a handful of pecans to eat today. That's it. I should be starving, but I'm not. I've come to the conclusion that if I'm going to get anywhere near the amount of calories I need, I'm going to have to force myself to eat certain amounts at regular intervals. It's completely shocking to me.

That is such a strange feeling, isn't it? After planning every social event around food for years, I find myself actually dreading to eat. The band took the enjoyment out of eating for me but I am not complaining. I enjoyed it so much that it almost killed me. Now I eat to survive and it is very new to me but I am learning.....

Can't wait til I get there! I'm experiencing some of that, but not to that degree yet. LUCKY YOU!!!

:whoo:

Grats Lauren, sounds fabulous!

Laurend, I lost my appetite on the pre-op diet, and I'm neaing 18 mos out and it's yet to return. I'm very, very rarely hungry. I feel hunger -- maybe once every few months. If I followed the advice of, "Don't eat if you aren't hungry" I'd be getting by on 200 calories a week. :car:

For a while, I thought my low calorie intake was driving my long plateaus (I cant point to that correlation any longer, and any newbies out there, please do not think this means "starvation mode"). I had no interest in eating more, so I ate higher calorie foods. It was the only thing I could think of to move beyond 400 - 600 calories per day, if that. Didn't make a bit of difference.

I'm probably still under 1000 calories 98% of the time. Due mostly to my restriction. For the most part, Breakfast is out and lunch is a x-small Soup, or nothing. So come dinner, I've maybe had... 400 calories, at MOST (if it's a fatty soup), but more often than not I've had 0 or damn close to it.

i have to do the same thing and still do the same thing. My doctor allows me to eat 4-6 times a day so I usually eat about every 3 hours .

Im getting better but I was having a hard time getting in 1000 cals a day It was usually more like 8-900 .

I started using sparkpeople.com to track what im eating to see how many cals I get in .

that helps. planning helps too , meal planning.

I basically eat when im hungry .

HTH

Mindy

I can't imagine not being hungry. I know it sounds silly but I can't wait to have that feeling.

I cant wait to have that feeling. Man I want that feeling.

When you get good restriction, it will come.For people who based so much of their lives around eating(like me), it is a welcome, but strange, turn of events! Goodluck to all!

Lauren, what you are experiencing is the joy of being banded. Often times I have trouble consuming 500 calories before dinner time. Make sure you have enough protein. Protein shakes really save me because it has 30 grams of protein with 1 cup of skim milk. I have 1 every day. Good luck.

Isn`t it great......... Donna

I am sooooooooo envious. I am praying I get to that place, too, where I really don't care about food and my bmi is low.

The thought of not being hungry is so beyond where I am now I can't even wrap my brain around it.

Have all of you already had fills? How many?

The thought of not being hungry is so beyond where I am now I can't even wrap my brain around it.

Have all of you already had fills? How many?

I just had my second fill on the 5th. I have pretty good restriction right now.

Actually more than I should have . Im quite stressed out right now so my band is pretty tight from the stress. So im having a little trouble keeping some things down . So im having to watch it. Right now my limit seems to be about 7 bites of food and im done or it comes back up.

But that will change soon im sure.

The not being hungry is nice. I eat now when i am hungry not because im bored, ect. I did get my first " IM STRESSED I want to eat" Moment yesterday but i got on the treadmill instead.

Its nice to eat just to eat if that makes sense ?

Mindy

The thought of not being hungry is so beyond where I am now I can't even wrap my brain around it.

Have all of you already had fills? How many?

I've had three fills, to a total of 2.2 cc in a 4 cc band.

You have no idea how much I needed to find this thread so that I can feel hope again. I was already thinking this wasn't going to work for me. I can't wait for the day when I don't feel hungry or 7 bites of food fill me up. - "forcing myself to eat" "dreading to eat" "very rarely hungry" "eat just to eat" "eat when I'm hungry" - these are all music to my ears and I can't wait to get there! Thanks you guys. xxoo, Gerri