Calling all bandsters!!

I HATE MY BAND>>>>>>>>>AND MY BAND HATE ME TOO

I hate the fact that I can't eat **** EVER. I used to love food, now I only eat to stay alive. I have lost very little weight in a year.

 I can never eat everything on my plate, maybe 2-3 spoonfuls..THAT"S IT!!!!! I'm on lock down.
I LOVE SALADS , but my band don't. I love rice but my band don't.

It takes me at least two hrs to finish a meal. I get so dam tired of reheating my food, by the end of the meal my food has melted onto the dam plate because I had to heat it up 9 times.

I got restriction morning noon and night, but why is it that if I try to eat something healthy (salad, protein, veggie) this ***** get clogged up.......HOWEVER I can sit and eat a whole dam bag of cheetos and love life.  

Oh but wait I can't eat potato chips........Last month was the first time I ate a sandwhich in almost a year, it was better than SEX.

Why the **** do I have to stand up and eat? I can't even go out to a nice restaurant because I'm always standing next to the ****** waiter like I work with him.

OH WAIT, what happen to the little midnight snack-------------HELL nooooooooooo----------If I bite a piece of a potato chip after the band has closed up shop I'm up all night PBing...........SHE HATES ME.....
My rant is over , back to your regularly scheduled program..........

Tia

Wow Tia -- I hope life with the band gets better for you -- your experience sounds like a nightmare!

((((Tia)))).  I keep telling you I think you are too tight and that you may need a very slight unfill which will make all the difference in the world.  Please go get a slight unfill so you can enjoy eating a little more and please do it before DC so we can have a real good time.

Band issues aside, your writing had me laughing out loud.  I can "see" every word.  If there is one thing that people notice about me it's that I can eat cold food w/o blinking an eye.  And standing up . . .  

Now, you know you gotta eat to loose weight with this tool, right?  On a good day, flaky band issues notwithstanding, you should be able to eat.  If nothing else is contributing to your being clogged all the time, please consider calling your doc.  Okay?   

Terri,

I feel you on all levels -- sometimes the band is a real trip!!

The noise is very strange - especially when drinking water early in the morning.

Anyway, the good thing is that you have good restriction. -- I can't eat apples either!  I really miss apples.

Oh well, that's the life of a bandster -- I have reached the point of good restriction and constant fullness.  I'm riding the wave as long as it last

Hey you.    Did ya'll weather the winter storm okay? 

Most days I manage really well.  I've given up on a lot of foods that I use to enjoy, and I don't miss them.  Then, there are the days like yesterday. 

Ride on Sis!! 

Terri -- I made it through the storm and thankfully we did not lose power like so many others.

Terri,

I just read your post and all I can say is RIGHT ON!!! I know how you are feeling. I feel the same way at times. Sometimes I just want to be able to eat what is on my plate but than I think about it and I say..."This is what got you here". So I am thankful for my tool but I totally understand where you are coming from.

Shantelle

It's good to know we have similar experiences.  The mental side of  this battle has been the hardest to contend with.  Right now is where I want to be, but sometimes I just wanna eat a dayum apple.

Hey Sis,

Your post spoke to my fat ass!  I aint got no band but I am thinking seriously about getting one on top of the rny.  Why? Cause I am a mess.  I want desperately to lose the weight but it aint coming off.   I done gave up the sodas......I still am not getting the exercise in.  with this damn kangaroo pouch hanging and sitting between my legs I dont want to do much of anything.  I can eat...I can't eat...Make up your mind.....does it work or don't it work.  I can eat this today but not tomorrow...I want to pull out every gray hair (that is alot).  I am tired of being fat...I am tired of not having ice cream, fried chicken.....I am tired of eating, just because I need to ....and still a fat ass.  I too am tired of cooking too much, because I dont cook for 1 and then turn around and give it to the dogs because I don't want it.  As grateful as I am I have my days cause I am still a fat ass.  Bigger than everybody...bigger than anybody... and there are others who were my size made goal or close to it.  i have to be grateful...because I do have people my size never at goal saying the are gaining.  I am babbling.....I just wanted you to know I am not a bandster but I feel your pain.