I get the terrible sticking pain when I eat dinner. Am I eating too much or too quickly? Or both?

I have stalled this week myself, but I know exactly what it is. I am eating things I shouldn't. I am not eating things that fall outside of the puree/soft phase (because that is where I am right now), but chocolate melts in your mouth and goes down like liquid, petit fores melt in your mouth and once chewed are like puree.

I know exactly what my problem is, I have little restriction, I eat to fast, take bigger bites then I should, eat a bit more than I should when I am actually eating, and I have binged a bit on chocolate. I do feel hungry and I am having a hard time figuring out the head hunger thing, so I am cheating. But I am being honest with myself, I know what I am doing wrong and I know what I need to do to get it right.

This may sound offensive, and I truly don't want to offend anyone, but if you really look deep into your mind and your behavior, you know why you are not losing weight or possibly gaining. Just because we can fit the food, doesn't mean we should eat it.

I can't blame my stall on anyone or anything (the band), I am making the decisions here, I am sticking stuff in my face and I am not making myself move (work-out, walk, burn calories).

It is my fault.... Sorry if this hurts anyones feelings.... :speechles

I have ahd some similar experience with the being stuck this past week on broccoli that was cooked very well. I thought I had chewed it well enough but nope swallowed then when to took the bite of fish and swallowed WHAM.....stuck...and oh the pain and the feeling of what do I do now.....it feels like not being able to breath.......expcept in my food pipe....LOL Does that makes sense to anyone?

I have stuck to my diet strictly....not allowed to go to regular diet until Monday. Still on the mushie stage, I have to admit that I thought I would see more weight off....but I have to stop being hard like this. I had surgery 4 weeks ago and I am down 2 pant sizes and fitting into clothes I have not had on in years.

I will know for sure on Tuesday morning what the official weightloss has been for me. I am imagining somewhere around 25 pounds since my pre-op appointment. I can't expect to loose like this forever.....it is going to slow down. But I have not even begun to go back to the gym either I am waiting for the ok to get back in the Water.

So we need to be easier on ourselves here. I know I was told the band is a much slower process than bypass and they mean that.......I want the weight to come off slowly so that my skin will recover. I think that is why people have so much loose skin with bypass.......they loose it so darn fast the skin can't recover.

We all have issues as to why we ate the way we did before surgery. But for us to get our arms around the BAND we have to change those habits and reasons. We have to create better habits and healthier life styles. Like getting off our butts and moving......this is first and foremost, we cannot expect the BAND to do all the work for us....it is afterall a tool.

I have been using fitday.com to log everything I put into my mouth it helps to see where your calories are or arn't. I plan on being a success and that means using baby spoons when I eat and measuring every meal that I have until I reach my goal.....and am maintaing it. Then perhaps I will graduate to eating by eyeballing things.....but I doubt it....I think measuring and being certain not to overeat will just be part of my life.

I was told no more than three ounces EVER.....for a meal......I know some bandsters in my local support group that are 4 years out that eat 4-5 but no more than that. When you do you will see the weight start to creep up again.

I told myself this morning after raiding my closet and fitting into a favorite pair of pants again, that this is all worth it.....my DH smiled and asked me so it was worth it....and I so oh HELL YEAH!!!!!

COngratulations to all of us who are on the journey together....we CAN MAKE IT!!! One date at a time..... One Pound at a time:clap2: