What type of revision is performed for a stomach that empty's too fast?

I had RNY 10 months ago and have only lost 40 lbs!!! At 2 months out up until my appointment this week I told the surgeon that the volume of food I can consume at one sitting is too great! He never really HEARD me he just kind of smurked and would tell me I am not exercising enough or I must be grazing. BUT I never gave up trying to get him to understand the volume of my meals are too high. I can eat 4 baked chicken wings & a salad at one sitting one time. A recent meal included to ground beef patties and a salad. Hey that sounds like a preop meal to me. After healing i never went through a phase where i could only eat a few tablespoons of food. 2 months out I could eat a whole lean cuisne meal...I could have probably eaten more but I would stop. The doctor told me this week that it sounds like the connection between stomach & intestine is too large ( an upper GI exam shows my stomach size coninues to be 5-10% the size of a normal stomach) Because I can eat so much and am hungry... VERY hungry soon after it appears that the food is emptying out of my stomach too rapidly i knew this two months out! Anyway the surgeon suggest that for the next month that i self limit meals to no more than 1/2 cup each mealand skip meals if I am not hungry (does not happen) he hopes to jump start my loss. (You know what if I had that type of self control I would have avoided going under the knife!!) I left the office thinking this made sense now i know this IS NOT A SOLUTION because my tool is not working! The surgeon said maybe he can tighten the opening by putting a clamp around the opening to close it a little. Any suggestions on type of repair needed, where I can find answers? has this happened to you? Don't get me wrong I have a good surgeon; we have to make sure we have really communicated out points to our physicians!

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