question!

nerdpunk · May 11, 2006

Hi guys, well next week i will be getting my first fill and i'm wondering if when you get your fill, is it or was it weird to experience getting "full" or only being able to eat a little bit of food? right now i basically feel like i have no restriction! so i hope with this fill i'll get some....i'm tired of eating and not being really full.....how did if feel like to find you weren't so hungry?

this is the only thing that is keeping me positive!

help me out guys

thanks reyna

mini_me · May 11, 2006

hate to break this to you, but i would not expect full restriction with the first fill. i could never "consciously" feel my restriction, but i did lose weight daily the first week. after that, i maintained. i got my second fill yesterday, which was one month after the first fill. over half of the first fill had disappeared from the band. this is normal according to my doc. i can feel the restriction now. it is not utterly dramatic, but i can definitely call this restriction. i have to be really careful about finishing my meals in 20 minutes. otherwise, i could sit and eat slowly, and the food would pass at a rate that would allow me to eat large portions. If i try to eat the large portions too fast, BOY, do i feel it. so, i eat slowly, and stop at 20 minutes, following the bandster rules of Protein first, etc. I am going to weigh again on monday, and we will see if this starts the scales to moving.

good luck to you!

nerdpunk · May 12, 2006

thank you...why do you allow yourself only 20 minutes to eat? is that a bandster rule? i jusst always heard to allow yourself 30 minutes because it will take you much longer to eat

Jachut · May 12, 2006

I find the same thing - if I eat really slowly, I could eat forever. I find myself getting the stop signal - real fulness is quite uncomfortable for me now, so I put my dinner aside and 10 minutes later start to nibble again and before you know it, I've gotten through the whole thing which was too big for a bandster in the first place.

So i too have to make myself stop at 20 minutes - or sooner if I"m full.

iteLnTx · May 12, 2006

I had my first fill about 2 1/2 wks ago and have lost now 4 lbs. I did feel the restricition right away. I still feel it. I am ble to eat less then prior to the fill.

nerdpunk · May 12, 2006

you give me hope!

mini_me · May 12, 2006

nerd, Jachut's message should clear up the reason for stopping meals at 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, your pouch has had time to work some of the food through the band, so you have room to replace it. If you sit long enough, you will end up eating too derned much and defeat the purpose of the band.

good luck and by the way. i had my second fill on wednesday, and i am really feeling the difference. each day is more significant.