Hi Guys,

I had a further fill of 1ml and am at my sweet spot at last!

I have lost weight since the fill, I am generally not hungry at all, full after a small amount of food and have occasionally got stuck if I have not chewed properly.

Also one morning at 4am with a splitting headache I got up to take some fizzy painkillers and when I was taking a drink of Water afterwards I realised I had actually got stuck on water!

I am still between sizes- I have trousers that are way too loose and falling down but I am not quite into the next size down. But I feel positive I will get there.

I was talking it over with my husband and when I was stuck on a weight loss plateau and each fill seemed to make no difference both he and I separately had this horrible suspicion that there was a hole in the lap-band and the Fluid was leaking out and that is why it was not working-after spending all this money, too!

I am posting this to encourage all those who may still be in that inbetween state known as bandster hell.

So what are the symtoms of the sweet spot? I thought I was there so I skipped a fill. Now I am hungry and no lbs lost. Sept 09 banded. filled @ 5.5cc on a10cc band

when you feel restriction, comfortable restriction, you'll know it...it's hard for me to describe personally, but I just knew when my sweet spot wasn't reached & totally knew w/in 3 days after my last fill, that my sweet spot had been found.

restriction & comfy fullness is wonderful!!!

hope everyone does great on their journey

I know I am at my sweet spot because a lot of the time I forget about food and am not particularly hungry, particularly if busy or occupied with something.

On a work day I have a cup of tea in the morning, then a cup of coffee an hour and a half or so later when I get to work, then one mid morning.

If I get busy or occupied with odds and ends before lunch I often forget to eat till 1.30 or even 2pm. I might have a weight-watchers yoghurt or creamed rice in the afternoon, then dinner at 7pm usually. I have it in a small bowl-a Cereal bowl-rather than on a dinner big plate.

I try not to eat anything else later. If I do, though, I try and eat low carb-maybe a bit of cheese or more weight watchers yoghurt or a clementine, or an apple and some cheese.

I really have to try not to drink Water with my meals or I want to eat more.

Also I have learnt to chew slowly and stop if I get ANY discomfort or fullness. It was tempting in the early days to continue but then I got really uncomfortable-had to walk away from the table, lots of salivating and it would take about 10 minutes to go away.

On a non-work day I get hungry around 11-12 and today I had one poached egg on a thin bit of toast and a cup of coffee. I felt as if at the time I could have eaten more but after about 5 minutes the urge had gone and I did not think about food until about 4pm when I had some hummous on melba toast and a cup of coffee. Then had dinner about 7.

Before I was at my sweet spot I was always wandering into the kitchen and if I was making a coffee I would be poking in the fridge and finding something to eat and generally thinking about food quite often.

We had lots of biscuits around at Christmas and if I could see them I would eat them with my coffee. I asked my daughter to hide them and not eat them in front of me and that really helped. Out of sight out of mind. That would NOT have worked for me before my sweet spot.

Also I can have a bite of something really nice-eg a bit of home made bread-and now just a little taste is enough whereas before I could eat several slices and still want more.

The best bit is that I am slowly but steadily losing weight, a total of 24lbs since before the pre-op diet.

Thank you for your input. I think I am almost there. Go see the doc today and he will judge by my eating patterns if he wants to adjust me or not...

K so I had .50cc added yesterday and I should be at my sweet spot the Dr says. I had a 8 lb lost over 5 weeks. But I told him I get the lost in the first few weeks then I stall and nothing. Well see. I want to be SWEET....