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Hello...I was banded Feb. 24 and had only 1cc fill at the time of banding. My doc is very conservative and fills only 1cc at a time. Its has taken a total of 6cc to get me to restriction which is where I will stay at for now. During the time getting there I have only lost about 4# a month. I eat what I want just a whole lot less of it. I eat appetizers for my dinner. I eat a dinner salad with cottage cheese instead of a big chef like I used to. I still like my cocktails several times a week when I go out and I know thats where a lot of my extra calories come from. I need to exercise more as I am sure we are all challenged with. But all in all, its working slow but steady. I am down a full size and hopefully will be down another by September. It can be frustrating when you see others better progress but I have to Celebrate my own little achievements here. So keep up the good work everyone. It has definately changed my old bad habits that eventually would of killed me. So I'm good with it.

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Good for you. 4 pounds a month is great, and it fits into the 1-2 pounds a week "guideline" that some docs go by. It's really easy to compare ourselves to others on the board, but we really shouldn't do that. Even if you and I started at the exact same height, weight, BMI, surgeon and sam amount of cc's in the same band, we'd probably lose completely differently because our bodies just work differently.

When I get discouraged looking at others stats, I just remind myself that I've lost more weight than I would ever have lost without the band and have kept it off.

Good luck!

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Hi Marge,

I'm losing pretty slowly as well. I'm okay with it though. This is more success than I have ever had before.

I was banded in Nov 08 and just got filled to 6cc a couple of days ago, so I guess my doc is pretty conservative also.

Good Luck!

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