Advice, take it or leave it. Stay OFF the scales. You are doing what so many of us do or have done. Becoming a slave to the numbers on the scale. If the scale goes up we beat our selves up and their goes our self confidence and motivation, if the scales goes down we jump up and down and yell horray what I am doing is working. Also stop thinking of it as a cheat day, this entire process is about learning to live with lap band and making healthy choices and it takes TIME and more TIME. Starting tomorrow morning, log every bite you put in your mouth, and that means every bite no matter how small. Keep this log for a few weeks.( I use myfitnesspal.com) Then go back and look at what and how you have been eating. The one thing I noticed was that even though I was eating under or at my daily calorie goalsI wa s eating over my fat grams everyday. I thought it would have been my carbohydrates but I stay way under the carbs, under my protein (not good) but almost always consistantly over in fat grams. I know it seems really scary not to weigh your self but take the scales out of the bathroom, place them in the floor of your bedroom closet and SHUT the DOOR! Now this is what I want you to try, 1. log your food, 2. Time your self while eating make sure you are taking the full 20 minutes to eat your food, chew, chew, and chew your food and do not drink anything 30 minutes before you eat or 30 minutes after you eat. 3, Eat off a small plate 4. purchase a good digital scale for weighing your food. 5. Do some kind of exercise daily, (something as simple as parking further from your place of work or taking the steps instead of the elevator, even if it is for only 15 minutes do something, Make the time you are worth it. 6. If you really want to know if you are burning calories or only maintaining purchase an electronic device you wear, Fitbit, Bodybug or something as simple as a pedometer. I know what you may be thinking, OMG... I had surgery so I would not have to do all of this. Well I am sorry to tell you until you get the rules down and undo all the bad habits all of us over eaters have developed you need to be OCD about your meals. You need to teach your body the difference between being full and being satisfied, and all of this does not happen overnight. Do not think of this as a DIEt, think of this as a LIVEit. You have to learn to live with lap band and use it as the tool it was designed for. Good luck in your journey and I know you will be successful, believe in your self and love your self. But please stay off the SCALES. And one last thing if you have not already done this, take your measurements, sometimes you lose inches while building muscle and muscle weighs more than fat. Good luck!

Oh I've been on myfitnesspal for a month now. I can not help but log everything! I'm not hungry. I eat about 800 calories a day. No fast food, not outside food. I mostly make my own dinner. I usally do a shake for breakfast due to time,then maybe a shake for lunch or some soup or chili or tuna. Then for dinner I eat a veggie and a protein. I am into Low carb for sure. I dont pay attention to fat. i dont get that much and low carbers usually don't count fat cause to be honest unless its saturated fat then some fat is good.

I dont over eat. I have my second fill today, but only cause I lost 4lbs when I got my first one. So I wanna lose these 4lbs. I actually have to make sure I eat cause I'll go a whole day and not eat if im careful. I wasnt a big eater before the lapband. Before I got preggo I lost about 60-70lbs on my own, but it was hard. Once I hit about 273 I started to stall bad. 2 months later I got pregnant. I thought the lapband would help me and increase my weight loss. I'm a slow slow loser.

Oh I've been working out off and on for about 3 years now. I currently work out 5 days a week. hard cardio, I strength train too 3 days out of the 5.

Ive been told to eat more calories but my surgeon says less than 1200. Before the band when i was eating 2000 or so a day I still lost very very slow and not consistant. Before I didnt weigh myself everyday. I would do it once a week. I'm trying not to weigh twice a day, but I feel if I dont then how can I adjust or know how i'm doing?? I use to measure, but that drove me crazier than the weigh ins. I would measure my stomach and overnight I would grow or lose an inch depending on whatever whim my body feels like torturing me that day. I measured my legs and the same thing, just up and down and up and down. So I gave up on that.

I'm a type A person. I look for results. If I can gain 4 overnight I find it downright cruel that I cant lose 4 overnight. Nope. My body is evil it adapts to working out and dieting quickly. It heals quickly. I had a c-section and was healed and you couldnt even tell a month later. My lapband scars are almost gone.

I just want to be normal. No crazy refeeds. No stalling for 2 weeks then mysteriously lose 3 lbs. No killing myself in the gym to the point of exhaustion and the inches not melting away. I've never been this cranky before. I'm down right miserable. I've been on diets and stuff before, but never felt this crazy!!

I'll try to drop the scale for now. I wish I could just get rid of it, but my husband has to weigh himself everyday for health reasons. But I do have a weigh in today for my fill and I know I'm gonna be upset. *sigh*

I would definitely have to agree with LovethenewMe, everything she said is so correct. The scale can actually turn out to be our biggest enemy and a huge obstruction in our path. I recently decided on my own, no more scale because I was doing the same thing, weighing myself almost daily and it was driving me insane! Up one day, down the next etc and so on. I had my measurements taken almost 4 weeks ago when I started a fitness bootcamp so I'll be really curious to see what they are at the end of this week. Muscle does weigh more than fat that's for sure. Just concentrate on making sure you get enough of the right food and lots of exercise and the way your clothes fit will tell the biggest truth. Good luck and keep up the good work!