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It took me 3 fills to feel any restriction and 6 to finally reach the green zone. Keep going in for fills. What are you eating btw?

No need to diet. Just keep getting fills till you get the restriction/satiety needed to lose your hunger. Call and go back for a fill.

Just happen to be cooking 2 chicken breasts tomorrow night. I'll try it.

I've found that fasting for 18 hours after dinner 3 times a week has done the same for me. It's my own modified version of the 5:2 diet. I stop eating at 7 pm and don't eat solid food or foods/drinks with any calories till about 1 pm the following day. I fast Mon, Wed, Friday and eat normal the other 4 days. I've dropped 15 lbs in 2.5 months. It's my 4:3 intermittent fast diet. Skipping breakfast on those three days and drinking lots of fluids keeps me reminded of what true hunger is. Here's a link to the 5:2 diet if you want to check it out. 5:2 Diet Partner For people too lazy to read the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Aj6hRYg4A & Vicki Edgson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1jwtFeGvk But, I think the 5-Day Pouch Test is also a good way to clean out your system and get in touch.

No clue? Sounds like a question for your doctor?

And what does your band sound like?

I didn't have a pre-op diet but I know the want you on no sugars, processed flours or basically no carbs so your liver will shrink. What is it that you want to eat?

"Days 1&2 are like the basic liquid diet post-op, right?" Yes. Day 3 can be salmon, chicken or most any meat. The diet is similar to the zone diet so it's mainly low or no carbs for 5 days. She recommends very low glycemic foods such as refried Beans on the 3rd day. She recommends shakes as only a snack and not as a meal. Bypass people have real pouches that hold about 4 ozs of food. We have a very small pouch where food stays for a few seconds before it passes through the stoma.

OK, Tylenol is OK(but it hardly works) but Nsaids like aspirin, ibuprofen and Aleve can cause stomach ulcers and for banded people those ulcers will occur right at the stoma site. These ulcers can cause band erosion which is extremely dangerous.

^5 your happy journey continues!

How long have you been taking Aleve?

It doesn't have to be all the symptoms but if it's something you had before the band that's a different story. I got nothing. Never had any problems with my band.

You must have Medicare right? Don't they cover office visits? Your symptoms could be anything from GERD to a slip or dilation. I'd recommend seeing your bariatric doctor very soon.

Did you measure your body parts before surgery and are they getting smaller? Do your clothes fit looser each week? If so, you're losing fat. Losing weight vs losing fat are two different things. Check this out? Muscle vs fat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJziqgrQgk Muscle vs fat 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt-V0PPJaw This may not be you if you're not exercising? Get out there and workout this weekend!!

Most of us veterans don't really consider 2 weeks a stall. Maybe at 4-6 weeks it's a stall if you don't lose weight and your clothes still fit the same? For example, you might lose 3 lbs of fat in two weeks but your body may be retaining fluids due to sodium, TOM, over exercising(muscles hold back water), stress or illness. You've lost 3 lbs of fat but it won't show on the scale. tmf

Definitely a question for your surgeon!

Just be sure to get in enough Protein so that the weight that comes off is Water and fat. I'd recommend no sugar and no carbs for your liquid diet. Take multi-Vitamins every day. I'm no expert on liquid diets. I've only been on one for 4 days and only once so I can't imagine 2 weeks(some here have gone 6 weeks ). Good luck!

Depends on your doctor? Mine just went by how hungry I was. He didn't even ask if I was keeping to a 1 cup per meal program. In fact, I never adhered to that policy. I tried, but dieting was always failure for me so I just tried to eat healthy foods and I probably kept my calorie intake to around 2000/day and my metabolic rate is 2000/day. So after the initial 12 lbs lost the first 2 weeks I didn't lose anything till my 3rd fill. Don't mean to scare you but some surgeons bow out of the fill sequence and allow a NP(nurse practitioner) or PA to give fills. Usually they're quite easy to work with but I've read of many who are petty little despots(control freaks) and are stingy with fills.

It can be. Contrary to what you may have been told, band surgery can be a lot more violent to your stomach and body than doctors profess. Your stomach now has a plastic band wrapped around it. They fried off excess fat from your stomach with a hot scalpel to make room for the band. They pulled your lower stomach up and over the band and sutured it in place with about 6 sutures to keep the band from slipping. Sometimes a stomach can be very swollen and that includes the stoma area. tmf

I know you're looking for positive feedback but I gotta say, why go on a deprivation diet like all liquids. We all got the band so we wouldn't have to feel the pain of dieting for so long? If you're at a stall/plateau I can understand it. But, the super weight loss we all realize when we first got banded or when we went on a new diet before the band is mostly just Water weight. See the link below? http://www.dsfacts.com/weight-loss-stall-or-plateau.html One of the things a lot of people do to restart their journey is the 5-Day pouch test. www.5daypouchtest.com I guess you could extend a program like this out to 2 weeks? Another is the 5:2 diet. I've ran a modified version of this diet and made it into a 4:3 diet to overcome stalls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Aj6hRYg4A And finally, shake, shake, shake every day for 2 weeks because you need Protein or your body turns on it's own muscle for fuel.

First, there is no correct answer to your question. Every doctor has their own protocol on how and when to give fills. My first fill was 5 weeks post op and yes I was very hungry. My doctor asked me if I was hungry and did I feel like I needed a fill? Some doctors won't give a fill if you're losing weight at fill time. Some patients don't need a fill for many months post op. Depends on how hungry you are? It took me 3 fills before the crazy hunger went away and I started losing fat again.

Bama, A watched pot never boils. Stop measuring and weighing every day if it causes so much pain. What you are experiencing is exactly what almost all of us experienced after surgery(I know you're re-starting). Below is a link that explains why you lost 15 lbs in 2 weeks. Now you're working on losing fat and that will be slow compared to those first two weeks. http://www.dsfacts.com/weight-loss-stall-or-plateau.html

Rena, I broke a 3 month stall by going on the 5:2 diet, but, I changed it to a 4:3 diet. It's not really dieting, it's just not eating from one night till about 2 pm the following day and then only eating 600 calories from 2 till 6 pm. Then back to normal eating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1jwtFeGvk

So, you're 3 months out and you've lost motivation? What motivated you 4 months ago? Has your life changed so much that getting healthy is no longer a priority? I usually have my non healthy living lifestyle around the holidays but I always get motivated in January. Just getting healthy and wearing smaller clothes does it for me. Add all the benefits of easier and less painful movement and it's a no brainer. Do you have kids? Do it for them? Do you have a significant other? Do it for him but mostly, do it for you.

There's an entire forum dedicated to band to sleeve: http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/394-band-to-gastric-sleeve-revisions/