The band is tight. I am truly restricted. Can't eat in the morning and if I don't wait 20 or 30 seconds in between bites, it's all coming right back up. Have read all about this from so many bandsters, but haven't experienced it until now.
I went in a few days ago for a fill(my 4th since surgery), and asked the nurse practitioner to be a little more aggressive with this one. In other words, pump a lot more saline into this tube around the upper part of my stomach. "I want to feel it this time!" The holidays are of course not a good time of year to lose weight, and even this year I did my share of quietly walking into my mom's kitchen and very slowly opening the cupboard where all the peanut butter blossoms sat, beckoning me. And I obliged. Often. The 9 pounds I lost in the first 2 weeks of the month all plus one came right back on, as evidenced at my weigh in Tuesday. But now's the part where I give myself a little pat on the back.
All this time since a few weeks after surgery, I have been capable of eating much more than I allow myself to eat. My band has been much "looser" than most bands and I was just fine with that as long as I could exercise some self control and continue losing weight. The thing you learn is that the more weight you lose, the already loose lap band becomes even looser, to the point that you can eat almost as much as you could eat prior to surgery. And in December that's exactly what happened to me. My first 50 pounds lost was approximately 40% lap band and 60% me exercising restraint at meal time. And that's something to be proud of. But enough with pride already! From this point on I want those numbers reversed. Back to 54 pounds down thankfully, and I anticipate being 60 pounds down within the next week. And will gladly let the band carry more of the workload for awhile.
