OK I am confused now...fill/restr. Q

So, for almost a week since my fill last tuesday I have had what I thought seemed like great restriction.  I could eat extremely little, 4-6 oz or so when I didnt feel tightish in the evening (from the 100 degree heat) This morning I had some oatmeal and was nice and full.  For lunch I had 1 slice of tofurky before I started to feel really full and had one little slime.  For dinner....I ate 1 large hotdog and an entire lean cusine...all in all about 14 oz of food.  How did I go from a few bites all week to this relatively large amount of food.  I felt ZERO restriction.  Did it wear off? lol...I feel a bit discouraged :(  I thought it was usually the other way around and it kicked in after a week or 2, not went away! Is this odd and can I kiss my restriction goodbye?

I am always tighter in the morning and at lunch....  Dinner , I really have to be careful.. Try eating a protein bar about 3 o clock or a piece of cheese to help cut the appeitit

I had restriction from surgery until 5 weeks post-op. and from my first fill last Tuesday until Saturday.  The surgeon said that most likely the restriction I had post-op was due to swelling, and that I would likely swell with each fill as well.

Well, typically folks need 3-5 fills to get properly adjusted. You're still very recently banded so I'm guessing you've just started the process. Some swelling is very common and that goes away in a few days/week or so after a fill. Here's my advice, however... "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."  I didn't coin this but I use it a lot when I read posts like yours. The band's job is NOT to force you to stop eating. It's there to help you get to satiety (not physically hungry anymore, NOT pressure/tightness/stuck/discomfort of any sort) and to keep physical hunger away for 3-4 hours after a sensibly portioned meal. So...start working now on putting proper portions on your plate. Put away any notion/belief that it's the band's job to force you to stop eating midway through too much food. That is not its job. Put 3-4 oz solid protein, a serving (1/2 cup) nonstarchy veggies and a serving (1/4-1/2 cup) starch (emphasis on complex carbs) on the plate. Don't let the meal last longer than 30 minutes or you'll be training yourself to eat around whatever restriction you have (think of an hourglass...the moment you put sand in it, it starts trickling through the "stoma"...your job is to fill that top part up faster than it trickles...not so fast it overflows or backs up, but not so slowly that it's trickling out and giving you more room to fill up). Also, Lean Cuisines are measured in weight not volume. A 10oz LC is  not 1 1/4 cups of food...different types of measurements. They have proper dietary portions in them. You don't want to be restricted to the point of only being able to eat a couple of bites or the "1/2 cup meal" thing...3 oz of chicken breast, when chewed, is 1/2 cup. You can't live just on that...you cannot get a balanced diet eating so little. We are not RNY patients...Bandsters eat sensible, balanced diets of real dietary portions. Nancy