Sometimes I can't eat much at all, and sometimes I feel like I can eat a ton. It all depends on what I'm eating. For example, I fixed a piece of fish the other night and could only eat half (and it was a little piece of fish). I didn't even feel like there was room for vegetables or anything. Then, today I had some beef fajita meat, but felt like I could eat a ton of it. I never got the "full" feeling. Just yesterday, I had a beef hamburger patty and could only eat half of it as well. Is it normal for the restriction to feel different from day to day?? I thought I should get the "full" feeling up "high" where the band is, and occasionally I do, like with the fish. But today with the fajita meat, I only feel fully down low, like in my big stomach below the band. Every day I worry that I've stretched my pouch or something.

So think about it. Its because the shredded beef is just the type of food that will pass easy. If the bottom part of your tummy is full, that means the food that you are eating is passing easily. You just have to make different choices about what you eat. If you know certain foods go through faster, don't eat it. Or just have something else to go on underneath it. Like eat the vegetables first and than the shredded beef. This way you are not over eating and still getting to enjoy the foods you like.

Most likely you haven't stretched your pouch. just think of your stomach as an hour glass. My doctor told me not to drink anything a half hour before and after eating. If you don't do that already, try it with the foods that you have to chew less and see if it helps.

Hollie definitely has a point. Fish and chicken have really helped me lose because only a little fills me up fast, so I use that to my advantage. When I eat something that I know will pass easy, I eat something that won't pass easy first to help slow it up a little.

This is the same exact reason why they say to avoid liquid calories and slider foods. What you eat makes all the difference in the world.

I think it is a combination of the fact that certain foods will 'sit' in the pouch for longer then others - I find any form of Protein sits in there pretty well - and the fact that some days you are just looser than others.

There was a post recently about womens bands being tighter at certain times of the month, and I for one know that my band reacts to my hormones!