I don't really know if this is the right place to post this, but I'm going to anyway. :tongue:

I'm a little frustrated today. I'm having a "fat" day. I haven't had one of those in months! I've been hungry all day, but I know it's not real hunger. I've been trying to drink lots of Water and such, but I'm just not feeling very successful today.

I had my second fill almost two weeks ago and I lost two pounds but haven't lost any more. And I gain a pound back every now and then (and then lose it the next day) depending on my water retention. I know that my weight loss has been pretty good, but I still wish it would go a little faster right now. I don't know if I need another fill because on normal days I'm pretty much in the general restriction zone, although I still feel like I eat too much. I have about 5.5 cc's in my 10 cc Realize band. The doc said if it didn't seem like enough, to come back and get another fill. He'd only put .5 a cc in.

It's quite possible I'm PMSing and I've been stressed about some things and I haven't been using my other stress-busting tools like meditation and yoga. So I'm really dealing with a lot of head hunger and emotional desire to eat. I've just felt so great and have been so happy so far that I don't know how to handle a day like this! I suppose I better learn.

Thanks for letting me vent. :plane:

I feel your pain. When it's "that time of the month" I retain water. It just drives me crazy. I wake up feeling swollen. The scale refuses to move in the direction I want.

I'm menopausal so no more periods, but I get a few days of the month ( not in a row) that I just get so hungry. Maybe it's still a hormonal thing, I don't know.

On those days, all I can think of is food and I get bad periods of cravings. Last week I had a day like that and decided to just kind of give in. I ate healthy food but ate more than usual. An extra yogurt, a bag of microwave popcorn ( yes, the whole bag). By the end of the day, I added it up and it was maybe 1500 calories. Not as bad as I thought but more than I usually eat. The next day, I was fine and eating normally again, so who knows why this happens? It was getting back on track that I was worried about, but it worked out ok.

Maybe my band was just looser that day, like some days they seem a little tighter.

LADYBUG: Don't beat yourself up about it, look at your ticker, you're doing fabulous! We all want to lose weight faster but it's just not so easy. The band is for life, so it'll all work out.