About the support meeting: I went to one on Tuesday before TG. My counselor was very impressed with my loss. She said with my short stature and body type she doesn’t see that big of a loss so soon. I voiced that I was at a standstill and felt like I was taking in too much food. She reminded me that this was a typical time that people stop losing or even gain. See, my band doesn’t have any fluid in it right now. So, it isn’t tight around the stomach. Right after surgery, your stomach is swollen and irritated so it feels like you are restricted. That’s why I couldn’t eat much right after surgery. Now, my stomach is virtually healed and so I can eat anything I did before. At my doctors office they do the first fill at 6 weeks. When they fill you, they put fluid in the band to make the ring around you stomach expand inward. As you eat food fills the upper part of your stomach and you get full faster. The food slowly filters down into your lower stomach and is digested. So, until my fill I have to be very careful with what I eat. The best advice I’ve heard is just because you can eat it, doesn’t mean you have to.