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Notice I said 'when", not "if". Do you just not get fills anymore (unless you start gaining weight back)? And, then if you don't get fills, can you eat fairly normally again or do you still have to take tiny bites and chew your food a million times??

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My weight loss got slower and slower over two years and eventually petered out. Fills were spaced at about a year, teeny tiny top ups when i noticed i was hungrier and my weight began to swing by a pound or two.

At six and a half years, i can eat a bit more and more variety, but basiclly, you will allways have to eat the bandster way or you will begin to gain.

No let up on the exercise either, it takes about 1500 calories a day and three hour long runs, three spin classes and a Bodypump or two to maintain my weight.

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That's a great question...i was wondering the same thing. I am in the stage of gathering information to see if this is the right procedure for me..

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I am 17 months out... and I just asked my Dr that question since I am about 30 something lbs from my goal. He said I would need to continue to eat small portions, keep good resriction and watch my calories or I would be likely to gain... but basically listen to my band and when I am full stop eating. He said I can get a fill if I see more than a 5-10 lb gain but that as long as I am in the green zone I should be able to maintain on 2000 calories per day.

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I am 17 months out... and I just asked my Dr that question since I am about 30 something lbs from my goal. He said I would need to continue to eat small portions' date=' keep good resriction and watch my calories or I would be likely to gain... but basically listen to my band and when I am full stop eating. He said I can get a fill if I see more than a 5-10 lb gain but that as long as I am in the green zone I should be able to maintain on 2000 calories per day.[/quote']

@ Floridays :

I have a question for you, now that you are 30lbs from your goal is it getting harder to lose those last lbs? My questions is because I'm about 20+ lbs from my goal, but it seem that eventhought I'm eating right and exercising 5-6 days a week I can't get the scale to move.

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@ Floridays :

I have a question for you, now that you are 30lbs from your goal is it getting harder to lose those last lbs?

I am so glad to hear you say that... because I thought I was doing something wrong! For most of my journey I averaged 10 lbs per month.... now its more like 5... which gets pretty frustrating. I have found that if I up my Water intake sometimes that helps. Other than that I wish I could offer other suggestions.... Its still coming off... but just so slow.

Congrats on your loss thus far!

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I am having the same problems. Im 10 lbs from my goal. I've continued to exercise and walk daily but can't lose the last 10 lbs. I started playing basketball with my 30 yrs daughter and 10 yr old grand-daughter to try to change up my excerise workout. Im hope this will get the pounds to start dropping again. I thought that maybe my body was use to the same old routine.

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I thought that maybe my body was use to the same old routine.

I do think that is a valid point. It gets in the maintaining mode....

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