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If your hungry before 4 hours after eating a meal with your protein's first then veggies then if still hungry starch then you probably need a fill. I had that same problem but I was having no problem with pb'ing and stuff getting stuck. Now if your hungry some times but not all you might very well be having head hunger which is just as bad. Make sure you know for sure because you don't want to be too tight like me. I'm going to have to make the 10 hour drive for a unfill. I was losing great. At least 2 to 3 pounds per week and then a friend of mine who had the surgery same day with me in Mexico had more of a fill than me so I go get what she's got, big mistake. We're all different. Now my losing has stopped because I can't get my portein in. Good luck with your decision, but if your still losing I would leave it alone.

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I was sort of the same, I'd get good restriction at night but could eat too much during the day. I had a fill on Friday, and its not made me too tight but its cut my escalating appetite.

I still get hungry pretty quickly, last night my stomach was growling within 2 hours of dinner becuase I'm tight and dinner time and only ate a small amount. But at lunchtime when I eat more, the fullness lasts longer. I still get a bit of head hunger in the afternoon, but nothing I cant handle.

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Julie,

I'm sure you have read about how fickle the band can be. You "CAN" eat and then you "CAN'T" eat. It's a crazy phenomenon.

Here's my current situation. It's that time of the month for me and I am extremely tight. I've had only 1 fill so far in this band journey and there are times where ..lately meat will go down with no problems. Other times, I cannot even chew up one tiny little bite size of meat enough, it just won't go down. So I panic and try to have a sip of Water to moisten the meat and BAM! Bad news!

Fickle!

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Thanks Telly. I am up and down right now like a yo yo. I am back to the gym so I'm giving it 2 weeks and if I don't see a difference I'm going in for another fill. I just wish my band wasn't so fickle. P.S. You look great.

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