first fill!!

Just read your post about the first fill...your doctor may be trying a different protocol with his patients as part of a study or just his own preference to see if he can tweak the outcome with banding to produce a bit better results....just my guess.  Since you can have chicken and meatloaf, it really isn't a "soft diet" which usually wouldn't include those items...so the criteria for judging how you are doing is really the same....23 lbs in 4 weeks is great!  You are doing fine.