How many with band are using diet aides like appetite suppressants, Alli, Slim Shots... with the band? Especially before hitting your "sweet spot".

I haven't done any, but I asked my surgeon about using Alli before I hit my sweet spot and he said the didn't see a problem with it. Just as long as I used it as directed on the bottle and still ate healthy foods.

I didn't but mostly because I don't think they really work. Ally---if you have too much fat it comes out the back end whether you want it to or not. That is just gross. Diet suppressants...been there, done that, got me to the lovely 405 pounds I was at my initial consult. Slim shots...I think if OTC stuff worked our nation would have so many overweight/obese people. So no. I'm not against help but I don't think that stuff does it. If I did, I wouldn't have gotten the band.

Ive been told not to diet or count calories because it would seem as if the band was working for me when it really isnt. Just another thought.

My PCP once told me that the only thing that gets slim with OTC diet products is your wallet.....

Ive been told not to diet or count calories because it would seem as if the band was working for me when it really isnt. Just another thought.

You know this may work for some but it sure didn't for me. I TRIED! I will admit I didn't get restriction until fill #7 on May 7 (lucky seven? LOL) but I'm losing because I am in "diet" mode. Otherwise I could graze all the time. I'm not counting calories but like I said, I'm in the "mode"...not buying foods high in fat/calories (like chips, candy) and so on. That "make healthy choices" thing is subjective. What's the healthy choice when you have only high fat/high calorie things to choose from? It's a dilemma.

I'm hoping, now that I have restriction, once I get a routine/habit going I can let up a little. For now, though, I have to watch it like a hawk or I stop losing. I can't eat a lot at once, but I sure can graze through a good chunk of calories if I don't watch myself really closely!

So monitoring "am I hungry or just bored/sad/tired" and so on, while isn't strictly dieting/calorie counting, is important for some of us. And remember that "healthy choice" thing starts way before the food ever gets to the dinner table.

To me, that's "dieting". Hopefully it will become "normal life" sometime!