I don't get it I could not even drink drinkable yogurt with a 2.75cc in my 4cc band so I asked for a slight unfill and got 2.7 now I feel if I eat slowly and chew good I can still very easily finish a McDonalds cheeseburger and maybe just a little bit more. I asked the fill nurse if she could put a little more in but she said if she did it would just get me back to where i was before when I couldn't hold food or drinkable yogurt down. So now I am wondering what should I do? Should I try for something like 2.72cc? The nurse said that she didn't think it would make a difference but the difference was huge with 2.75 and 2.7 so maybe my sweet spot in right somewhere in between? I just got this new fill today and I think I can still eat a good portion more than I think necessary. So what do you guys think? I am starting to feel like I may never find my sweetspot.

Edited November 3, 200817 yr by coolchick

that's exactly what i'm worried about. i had a slight unfill of .5ccs in september and have to wait until next week for another fill. does the band get used to the current fill and if i get .5 this next time i'll be fine or will i have to struggle finding my sweet spot someplace in that .5cc.

Minute amounts can make a difference, I went from being really tight at 2.9 to so wide open I can eat an entire sandwich on THICK bread at 2.7. Its amazing. I'm going back to 2.8 next week, lol.

Sometimes you just tighten up, which is what happened to me, 2.9 had been fine for me for absolutely ages. You wont necessarily be too tight again at the same fill level.

I'd recommend working with the band at the looser level. Yes, you do get more hungry but if you are careful to fill up on good solid healthy foods, it still controls the hunger enough that you can make good choices. Going too tight means falling back onto liquids and soft foods that don't satisfy, don't stick in the pouch and leave you feeling hungry again quickly, so you start to snack all the time - it's a vicious circle. With the looser band, if you make sure that you plan and eat your meals on time and make sure that they are things like lean meats and vegetables with fibre, you will feel less hungry overall, will get in good nutrition and should easily be able to keep under 1200 cal a day. Combine that with some exercise and most people will lose steadily.

It's when you have the band loose but don't pay attention to eating the right foods at the right times, that you find yourself starving hungry in the afternoons and evenings and fall back onto our bad old habits of eating junk food and crap. The band takes work and discipline - it just makes it a LOT easier to stick to the discipline because, even when a little loose, it controls the hunger. For example, you could eat a burger now, but can you eat what some of us used to, as in 2 burgers, upsized fries and large coke, with an icecream for dessert? Hopefully that kind of gorging is still out of the question, so just concentrate on good choices for what you can eat.