Eat SLOW and SMALL that is the best advise, I have had many challenges and am having my band removed this wednesday, i am not sure if I will wake up without a new band or if it can be replaced, the surgeon will not know until he sees how my stomach looks, although a lot of this was my own fault, i thought I had the band figured out and made myself sick a lot...now I know I have it figured out and there is no tricks, just small and slow....