ObesityHelp

II have 12 cc in my band. I have restriction but I am always hungry & could eat within minutes of finishing a meal.

I had my last fill on Dec 16 and am not due for another month. I wonder if it is head hunger instead of real hunger. Whatever it is, it feels real.

I was re-banded last April. I expected that I would lose like the first time, but it has not happened. I lost 85 pounds the first year & a half. Most of it was lost due to not being able to eat at all, because I would start swelling as soon as I had restriction. Then I would have to be unfilled....I would gain like crazy because I had been starved.  I lost more than I gained until the doctor decided I needed surgery. Then I gained half of the weight back. while waiting for surgery. Since surgery, my weight has bounced up & down the same 10 pounds. I was really getting into bad habits in the late fall & Christmas, but  I have straightened out since Jan 1st. I was not eating too much, but was making terrible choices. Sugar is evil!! I was getting  lots of exercise Christmas week but after going back to work it has been weekends only. That will change when the evenings get lighter & brighter. The weigh,t however, has not changed.  I usually know when I have been bad & I own up to it. I don't normally go into the clinic & say I don't know why I gained or didn't lose.  However, right now I feel that I should be losing & I am not.  I have not weighted myself for the past few days because it is too discouraging. I don't want to sabotage my good habits. 

I had to go through the pre-op diet, but I used SlimFast instead of MediTrim. In the surgery the Dr repaired a hernia (which didn't show up on any scans or tests) and then replaced the band. Then the new band was hooked up to the old port. I ended up staying in hospital for a couple of days because I couldn't drink. I had to take the long slow route for fills, so I didn't get restriction until November (it lasted a couple of weeks). He added a very small amount at the last fill.

You definitely need a fill. Don't worry about getting close to 13 cc in your band. My band is 10 cc & it has 12 cc in it. Dr B said that they don;t worry about that any more. The company told them that the band can hold something like 30 cc (I assume this is not when in a patient) & not burst.
I weighed myself this morning & it has not changed an ounce!

Your body adjusts I'm afraid. I eat so little, but if I eat more, I gain.  Exercise does help me a lot. I was noticing that it was still light out when I got home tonight- soon I will be able to go hiking after work.
You know, we live so close together, we should go for coffee some evening & talk all this over in person!  I live on Springwater....

Sounds like you are doing everything right. I am getting very discouraged. I have to break a couple of bad habits & monitor that I am really folowing the rules & not just "thinking" that I am following the rules. I have been out snowshoing everyday since Saturday. I hiked to Shediac Island on Saturday with a bunch of people that are in better shape than I am in - what a work out.  I was some sore the next day.

Yeah- there are all kinds of trails behind New Maryland. We could go anytime you like.
I am planning to hit a trail behind Phillips Dr tomorrow night after work....about 4 or 4:30. I am combining geocaching with snowshoing. The local "association" is having a winter contest where you have to complete 20 of 42 tasks. My current task is to get 2 caches a day for 7 days. I could get easy caches, but I rather get an interesting hike through the woods.