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Ok, I can eat....I mean really eat now. I have NO restriction, none, nada, zip, zilch :sigh: Tortillas, yep I can eat them. bread, sure not a problem. Angel food cake....umm sure.

My Dr. requires that we wait 6 WHOLE...LONG....DRAWN OUT WEEKS for our first fill. I am dying! How long did you have to wait?

Semi afraid that I will gain before my appt :) so the good news is every darn thing I eat, even the crumbs I find are tracked and I am staying arround 1000 calories.

Please, someone get the food away from me....

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manda i am at the same place u are was banded march 17. and i quit eating only because i know i had enough. I am staying between 900 and 1300 a day and ive been walking 30 mins a day. i lost 13 pounds after surgery and i have gained about 6 back. i wont get my first fill till april 30 seems so far away.

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Hi!

Did you call you doctor's office? I am scheduled for a fill on 5/7 but the dietician said that if I am starving, that they will do it at the 4 week mark instead. I think you kind of have to be a pain, but it might work.

I hope things work out for you. I know how tough it is to loose weight an no one wants to gain any of it back. (it is why I won't step on the home scale anymore).

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Scrappy -- love that Garfield graphic!

Yep, me too on getting hungrier but I did get approval to move up to 1200-1400 calories for the next 2 weeks until I get my fill because I was really struggling to stay close to 1000 plus get at least 30 minutes of exercise in several days which was burning 200-300 calories or so.

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Butting in from another board but I was going to give you some suggestions is you don't mind. I always just put 1 cup of food on my plate and ate that. THis is still what I do 8 months later. I set regular times that I ate (6:30, 10:30, 2:30, 6:30 which corresponded with when I could eat at work) and I didn't eat at any other time. Yes you will get hungry sometimes, but you are going to quickly find out that this is much more about your head than about the food that you eat. What I always did when I got hungry was to start drinking because then I knew I couldn't eat. Those are just the things that worked for me. Hang in there, it does get better.

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Thank you for saying exactly what I was going to say. I am in the same boat as you. I was wondering also when is the earliest you can get your first fill? I want it now. I feel no restriction whatsoever. I feel like I didn't even have surgery. I am eating smaller amounts because I know I have to. But I would love to have the feeling of being full. I go to the doctor this Thursday and that is my 3 week post op check up. I really want a fill that day but I doubt he'll give me one. Well good luck and I'll let you know Thursday if he would fill me or not.

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