Depressed, discouraged. No Weight Loss, Hungry, Help!

[Tonia Duty Keo Bailey 1]

I can use some help navigating this web site/forum. I bookmarked this post because I don't know how to search or find my own posts or go back to anything I am interested in.

Can someone tell me how to find this conversation when I log back in? - Tonia

[SandyM 1,956]

Log in and in the upper right corner you see a caption icon. Click on it and posts you subscribed to will drop down

[fee139 63]

I'm 6 months post op and have 5.7 cc in my 14 cc band and am just now started to feel restriction, but that's after 6 fills. My weight stood still for 3 months but I'm finally losing again. You have to look at this as a journey, it's not quick loss. Don't get me wrong, I was getting discouraged but I have lapbander friends who are still encouraging me. Remember, it's a journey and a tool, you still have to make good food choices AND exercise. My stall was a lot of my fault, my portions were much smaller but my food choices were not good and I sat on my butt and was lazy during the holidays.

[ReeByrd 2]

I could be that you are not "eating enough" with the band, sometimes all you can get down are a few sips of this or an ounce or two of food. Try getting in all of your Protein, even if some/most is in liquid form. I can be very discouraging, but one thing I have learned is that even though we all have THE BAND we don't all respond in the same way, and some of us, don't respond like most - that's sounds crazy, but I was banded in 2008 and JUST NOW started losing after regaining everything back (don't panic -- it was a combo of me not being head-ready and an overly conservative-you have enough fill doctor)

Sometiime I feel like I'm eating every 2 or 3 hours, but I'm not hungry when I get the Protein in.

Check with your dietician; I was told very often I wasn't eating enough. When I did, the weight started to come off.

[Tonia Duty Keo Bailey 1]

I got my 3rd fill this past Tuesday, as planned. They put in 1.5cc's and for the very first time, I felt a difference. My hunger and appetite actually felt under control. After about 3 days, I am now feeling hungrier again, and I have made some bad food choices, have over-eaten twice, and ate too fast once. I must have had some swelling causing more restriction and that is gone now.

The good news is, I do not feel hopeless any more. I am not at the "sweet spot" yet. I am making mistakes, doing wrong things, but the difference now is I know that I have changed and am going to change more. I know my hunger CAN be controlled now, and with the right fill, it WILL be controlled. I started counting calories, writing down what I'm eating and deliberately making good choices most of the time for the past 4 days.

I have hope that I will be able to lose weight now. I have hope that I am and will continue to change my eating habits to a healthy lifestyle of healthy foods. I have hope that as my body cleans out, weight decreases and energy increases, that I will be strong enough to start exercising and get stronger.

I have Hope. Thank God.

[SandyM 1,956]

Why not try some kind of exercise...kinda like they use to say in WW. Move more today than yesterday