does anyone ever just want a hamburger? and have it? i keep reading and reading about all this healthy eating and ww, and atkins and low carbs ..no carbs... i didnt think that is what the band is about....i refuse to be on diets!!!!! yet here i am..banded nov28th and on a diet..this one is for healing though so its ok...i understand it....but after healing.... i seem to think.... eat less...move more....lose weight? is that so hard? i read somewhere about someone wanting to make christmas cookies... and not having any...i say...if you want something so bad... have a lil taste of it... because the big monster in ur head will let you have alot of a taste of something else!! and you'll still want that damn cookie!! the whole point i'm trying to make is.... with the band..hopefully i'll only fit half the burger ...instead of having 2 like i did before..with fries and a milk shake!! ..oh ..and looking for snack late that night!! i'm sorry if i sound dumb... or grumpy(starving on clear liquids) lol...but i would like to hear from ppl who just.....eat small amounts of regular food and.... excercise....and live!... i understand how i got this way..eating eating eating eating... i'm hoping the band will help me to not eat as much.... but reading about the diets some ppl have.... I'M DEPRESSED!!! I DONT WANT TO DIET!!! :help::hungry:

i agree with most here... diet ... ick die-t.

if i diet i fail. i eat what i want pretty much, just much much less.

last time i was on a diet (atkins-esque) i lost 10 pounds in 1 week, but the following 10 weeks my weight went up and down the same 5 pounds.

i have lost my taste for fast food pretty much completely. now the McD's has the McRib back (i know, i know) i did get one. i literally had 2-3 bites, was satisfied and pitched the rest. yup, it's a "waste of money" but i'd rather waste the money than have it end up on MY waist...

I find that I think that I want something like a cheeseburger but when I get it, I end up wasting it because like someone else said, the effort to chew it just becomes too much. I make sure that I count my calorie intake so that way if I do splurge then I am able to balance it and not go over. The key is definitely balance. It is weird, I haven't had my first fill and the weight is coming off, I had to adapt to a few changes but none that put me in misery. I have more energy than I thought possible so that in itself motivates me to stay on the right track.

I am a few months over a month post op and have no had fast food in over 2 months and I dont even have the urge to even though i can eat solid foods. I was a HUGE fast food person and now I realize that I can live with out it. something else that I have not had is a snack. I am very shocked by this but since being banded I have had my 3 small meals and been satisfied all day!!! this has thrilled me beyond words. I loved to snack on every and anything before and I thought that would be the hardest step to over come but so far it has been the easiest. The hardest part has been picking foods that i acutally want to eat. Nothing seems to be appealing to me any more.

good luck to everyone on there journey...I love seeing the results of a new me everyday!

My only major challenge is ice cream.