........is there any such thing???? I feel like I'm going crazy here, struggling with this weight loss journey...and I wondered if there's any smart people out there who have figured out just what the hell happens during plateaus/weight loss/gain etc.... I was pretty discouraged recently (3 Feb) to come back from the UK after having another (2nd) fill - now at 6cc in my 9cc capacity band - I was very restricted for a week or two and then, well, not so much. So I spent a week feeling sorry for myself and then decided I needed to get my weight loss moving again...I have been dieting, since then, basically - not more than 1200-1400 cals a day, or 35g fat, making sure I eat more than 40g protein, and drinking the damn water!!! This also went well for a few weeks - steady weight loss of 1-2lbs a week - then last weekend I kinda had a blow out - I ate a bag of chips on saturday night (this is a bag of Irish/english chips!!! ie French fries but really big and thick and em, yummy!) Then I went Kray-zay and had a baileys (alcoholic drink, creamy, like that Godiva stuff) - this is a pretty pathetic blow out by my pre-band standards - then I had apple pie on Sunday and shock, horror, BREAD! - and BAM! I weigh in on Monday morning at 240lbs - I had been 232 on the thursday before - I mean, what the hell??? Weighed today, 243...I'm back on my diet, what gives? Is this going to be a gigantic horrible struggle EVERYDAY for the rest of my life???? I am so pissed off and upset and, well discouraged to be more polite....How can weight come off so slowly and go on so fast?

Maybe I should just go to my fill doc and get another 2cc in and just not be able to eat?

Any advice or scientic data I could use?????!!!!!!!!:cry :cry :cry

I dunno Christina. I'm not going to have a poison oak and nightshade salad anytime soon...

Could just be me though

hmmmm and coco beans grow don't they? so technically, chocolate is a vegetable??

Since coco bean make chocolate, and beans are legumes, perphaps chocolate is a legume?

uh huh....I'm pretty sure that's accurate....

LOL- Leave it to you two to think of something else besides fruits & veggies!!! LOL LOL

But truely its a good rule to live by for sure. And yes Cocco is natural and in limited quanities good for us. So are pure grains & fruits- Its just the preparation that can turn something good into something not so good(but taste better).

If I could learn to do this I would be quite thin- but I am a lazy girl & addicted to whats fast & quick.

dear bright, you sound EXACTLY like me 10 days ago. i had my surgery may 12 2004 and have only lost 25lbs. i think even those were lost by shere will-power. i kept hearing from other bandsters that they could only eat 1-1 1/2 cups max.; that when they went out to dinner they had to know where the bathroom was in case they had to pb; not to drink water after u eat ect. and had none of those symptoms i just thought of course this works for everybody else and not for me.anyway 10 days ago i went for my 4th fill i had 6cc and she added 1 so i'm up to 7cc. i can't begin to tell u what a difference that made. i finally feel like i have a band. explain to your doc. exactly what quantities you are able to eat at a time sometimes they really are too conservative- i'm wondering if that's about the $ the more times u have to come back the more $ for them. i explained to mine that i was actually able to eat at least 3 cups of pasta at one meal. and she said u definetely need a fill. so i think u just have to find the right fit for u and then it'll start coming off.GOOD LUCK!!