1. The "mental hungries" get me more than anything else. I keep a food and calorie diet to fight them.
2. Eating a meal without drinking was important to learn.
3. Chew, chew, chew. The dreaded "pb's" (productive burps) are as bad as you read.
4. My weight loss has slowed. So not to become discouraged, my scale has a digital read to ounces of a pound. I keep a log of my weight down to the ounce so I can see (and remember!) my weight loss.
6. My very most important lesson learned: The band is a tool. I can use it. I can cheat (and boy, can I cheat on vacation!). There is no such thing as "falling off the wagon", but the ability to make good or better choices in my foods. Even my husband, who has never dieted in his life, has started looking at foods differently - he looks at fat and sodium content. Then he wants more food for less calories. I've also learned that if there is something I really want to eat, it is no longer "forbidden" or something that I cannot have for the rest of my life. I just eat less of it, and then I can start making better choices right away again. I do not belive there is failure, only good and bad choices. I've hated myself most of my life because I made what most people consider "bad choices."
Finally, I learned that Dr. Ortiz and his staff are miracle workers.
Ms883