Increase Your Chances of a Good Fill

[Carlene 12]

I am in a delema with my band, things get stuck but I am not getting feeling full. So I am eating very slowly and if it does not feel bad I will eat to much (or what I think is too much) maybe a cup and half of food. Not losing weight or feeling full. I don't know if a fill is in order or what? I know when I first got this fill I was full with very little food eaten. Anyone else like this? In other words feeling tight but not full?

Carol...it may be that you are trying to eat things that your band just isn't into - to paraphrase a popular book on relationships. I realize that the ideal is to be able to eat ANYTHING, just in smaller quantities. That, unfortunately, is not the reality for most people.

A cup and a half of food is not too much. I would say it's just about perfect. I can eat about 6 oz of really solid Protein - prime rib or fish, for example, but I can eat about 3 times that much of chili, chunky stew, etc. I can't eat bread, cake/cookies, Pasta, rice, potatoes, fruit with skin or Fiber, many veggies, and some other stuff.

[candy444 0]

Thanks for the info, I get my fill today at 2:30 pm and I wish I had read it before I ate my Protein Bar. I won't eat anything else before I go in. I am 4 weeks out from surgery and gaining this week so I think I am ready for this fill. I can't wait to feel some restriction and start losing again. I also feel like someone slipped me a Water pill, I have been peeing all morning. Candy/329

[faybie 0]

Thanks for this post, I read it but didn't subscribe and I was having a heck of a time finding it again!

Whew, so glad I did.

[em1125 0]

Sweetsue,

Thank you for posting this. I read your post yesterday, and I was having a fill today. However, my time of the month came and I called my surgeon and asked if I should have a fill. He did not want me having a fill during my period. He reschedule me for next week.