ChiennesDad

But it sounds like you may have the wrong one... good therepy challenges us, pushes us at gets us to confront our issues rather then our excuses. Time to shop for a new one?

All of the physical advise you have been given is sound (don't drink with meals, get a fill etc.). It sounds to me that none of that is really your issue. I know it is often tough for us guys, but have you considered getting some outside help? Counseling is a great tool to help us first work through emtional issues, and then make the resolve needed to carry through. The band is a tool, a pretty good one for manageing weight, but only after the commitment t use the tools has been made. I do pastoral counseling work and can tell you that many many times all I really do is help the folks I work with focus their attention to the things that really matter to the, and then brush away the chaff. I doesn't mean your defective, crazy or weak to get help - it just means that you found something you can't do alone. Consider getting some help, I'll bet that your band clinic can give you some low cost refferals.

I'm one week out and starting to get back to normal, although it comes and goes (slept 18 of the past 24 hours, but had a good day the day before). Feel pretty Zippy right now. The first three days hurt like the dickens, but its been getting calmer ever since. As one of the posters above advised, walk as often as you can - it really helps with the gas, and limbers the wound sites. Has naybody else had a problem with a broken thromostat? I alternate between feeling really cold and being drenched in sweat - weird...:straight

Mostly I'm fat because I eat too much. I know, simple answer. The point is we all have different burdens, genitics - eating for stress, etc. Not sure it matters "why", the question is what do you want to do about it?. For me that's a lapband (tomorrow!)