I hope that you're not looking for the "I just ate a huge meal and now I'm stuffed" full feeling. When the LB is doing it's job properly you should feel a satisfied feeling after you eat your portion. You may feel like you can eat more, but at that point your shouldn't. If you feel satisfied, the band is doing it's job. Once your've eaten and satisfied the hunger, any addtional eating that you do after isn't hunger. That is why you should always weigh and measure your portions. I recommend that you get in the habit of weighing and measuring everything and be less concerned with eating till you feel "full". If you aren't using MFP to track your food, you should start. Drink lots and lots of calorie free liquids and make sure you are doing some sort of physical activity. If you do those jobs, you have given your band the best opportunity to do it's job. Remember, the tool we've had installed does 20% of the work. We still need to do the other 80%. Good luck and friend me if you'd like to.

You really have to look at being satisfied, not so much full, Altho... I do get full feeling.

Are you eating solid protiens? What you eat can make a big difference.

Here's my typical day:

Breakfast: Greek Yogurt

Lunch: Salad with protien such as chicken or steak or pork... what every protien I had the night before
Or a cup of chili
Chicken Salad in a pita

Supper: A solid protien such as fish, steak, chicken, pork chop, 3 - 4 oz, veg such as cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, what everh thrills ya. Every now and then I just got to have a potato so I will have a really small potato.

Sometimes I will have spagetti or meatloaf what ever....

I am also eating around 1200 calories a day. Anyone should be able to lose on that but it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes you just get stuck. Don't let it discourage you... stick to it. It's got to give. I was on a plateau for 6 weeks, my weight would not budge and it was just above the 300 mark. For the life of me I could not see 299 no matter how I ate or how much i exercised. I stuck with it, I had to cuz I knew if I got discouraged and gave up the scale was going to go the other way!

You can do this. It takes work. there is nothing easy about it. It is a great tool and those who learn to eat healthy and add physical activity to their life seem to be the ones most successful. It is a change for life not just for a while.

I don't completely deprive myself... I still enjoy a extra treat now and then but I don't let my self go back to eating the way I used to and oddly enough, I have no desire to. It really has gotten to be a way of life for me and I hope to keep it that way.

Hang in there!

I drink about 80 oz. a day. I never drink with my meal and try to wait till 1/2 hr after I have eaten.

Your breakfast and your lunch are pretty much "slider" foods. Maybe you should try something more solid that will fill you up.

I can't eat solids very well in the morning but I eat lunch and I'm pretty much satisfied till supper.

And yes.... nothing will break a plateau like exercise. Actually, when I had the 6 week plateau I finally went to the Dr. I knew I didn't need a fill. I saw her and my nutritionist. I took my food and exercise logs with me. They thought I was doing everything just fine. My Nutritionist suggested changing up my exercise, I was doing 45 min on the elliptical. She suggested I add strength training so I started going to the Body Pump class. The next week I left the 300's behind me!

Ya... I'm not an exercise lover either but I really hate when I don't go now, so I'm pretty regular. (ZUMBA is a blast!!!) just sayin

I had my LB 'installed' on 6/28/2012. I have lost 35 pounds since surgery. If I may make a couple of comments - Look at your Protein, Carbs and Fat. I think I may have just broken my plateau - will see for sure on Sunday - but I met with my dietician and went over all that I had been doing. She recommended - no more than 65-75 gms of protein (I was getting usually 80 -90 a day), up to 135 gms of carbs (I had focused so much on protein I was eating less than 35gms a day) and 35-45(max)gms of Fat.

I do have a problem with my band in the morning so if you look at my diary you will see most every day I have a coffee with a protein drink added. (I use a Slimgenics soy protein bistro cappucino -yummm). That way I wake up my band and get some protein in. Then you should add 2 - 3 snacks a day - you are going too far between meals. I have my first snack about 9:30ish. It might be cottage cheese. some fruit, cheese stick, crackers, pb something... I then have lunch about 2-3 hours later. Then a snack around 3ish - yogurt, etc.

Then dinner and if I am feeling empty and hungry later in the evening - I will have a cup of diet cocoa, haven't tried the instanct carnation drink yet, hot tea or another low protein item.

As Teresa said - you might be having too much slider food. My dietician and doctor said they do not want me to have just 3 meals. I have to have 5 - 6 a day - smaller portions. And I was told to keep my snacks maybe a bit smaller. By doing this you can get to the 1/2 - 3/4 cup amounts. I need to start measuring again - my portions have grown and I realized that. - So the measuring cups are back out and I use the kitchen scale religiously too.

You are not a failure - your body is comfortable where it is at. maybe if you go back to the full liquid diet for a few day that you did right after surgery and after a fill - and stay at or below your calorie totals you can shake up the body.

Your plateau will break - it just doesn't move like we want it too... But you will get it down. Need to change up both the exercise and food...

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g - and I have 4.5cc's as of Monday. A friend of mine has 10cc's in her band is just now feeling restriction more often.

I hit a 6 month plateau. It's all normal. It will pass. Make sure you're getting enough protein - Supplement with low carb protein shakes if you need to. MFP is way too low on protein. You can do it

i am not a bander, i am a sleever. but i know the frustrations of the dreaded 'plateau.'

when i hit them, i usually fight back with high protien diet, including like, Body Fortress protein shakes, tuna, canned chicken, cheese, and lots of water between. i also try and time my meals. my doc told me to wait at least 2 minutes between bites. that way my pouch has time to register what i just put in. it works. i thought he was just crazy, and i was looking for that full feeling at first.

Reading these posts I am getting some good meal ideas too! Thanks everyone! Hope this helps ya! :happy:

i'm a RNY'er so I'm not sure how helpful I can be when it comes to advice on the Lapband. However, I'll agree with what the sleever said on fighting back those plateaus with lots and lots protein. It almost always proved to be successful me, as well. I wish you the best of getting though this. Build your exercise up slowly so as not to injure yourself or cause yourself to burn out on it. You'll do great!