I have had a lap band for 2 years. In the beginning I lost weight fast and steady until I started having all kinds of problems with my band and my health. Fast forward to now and I am back on the right track with a normal working band. In the beginning I lost because I had a tight fill, I am now wondering if my fill today is not tight enough to lose that way. I was completely unfilled for a while and had my first fill on aug 27th. I have a 4cc band that has 1.6cc put in on the 27th. When I was tight I was at 2cc and I could not eat any solid foods, only softs and liquids. I can now eat lot of different solids if I go very slow and easy. I lost weight the first few days but I have stopped for the moment and was just wondering if I should have another tighter fill soon, or just stick it out with this lesser fill and wait for the weight to come off.

Edited September 7, 200917 yr by vmills

Look at your portion sizes - how much are you eating? the band is not meant to make you unable to eat, its meant to reduce your portion size whilst you still eat a good range of solid foods.

No amount of fill will make you unable to eat fattening foods like Cookies, ice cream and chocolate either, and no amount of fill really cuts your appetite for those foods permanently.

You need to honestly look at your calorie intake as balanced against hunger levels and ability to stick to say 1200 a day. Any tighter than you need to be and you tend to start eating slider foods, which means you dont lose as much weight anyway. Also, we all lose fast and steady at first based on the fact that our bodies have not wised up to what we are doing and we also have super motivation!

How much exercise do you do and what do you do? Its near impossible to lose weight well long term without plenty of good hard cardio and preferably some strength training as well. Walking is a fabulous, healthy activity and done really hard may be all you ever need, but the way most people do it, it wont cut it for your entire weight loss journey, you have to sweat hard and get out of breath.

If you're eating the right foods to the point of satsifaction, getting enough of the right kind of exercise (45 mins most days) and you're STILL not losing, then its fill time.