Question for female banders!

[libbyb]

Anyone's bands miraculously loose the week before your TOTM?? I could eat a horse but prior to this week I was around 800 calories! I'm wondering if I'm used to my latest fill now though? 8.5 in a 10 ml band

 

[flutterby1966]

Absolutely Libby. I have around 2 1/2 weeks I can eat like a horse and then 1 1/2 weeks when I have internal bloating making the band feel tighter. That's why I have never really gone for full restriction, as it would have been too tight for totm. Once you recognise the cycle you learn how to understand/cope with it and don't let the weekly fluctuations worry you. Look at the average weightloss over the month instead x

 

[joanne h]

Hi, at my first fill on Friday my nurse explained that some women feel extra restriction during the TOTM. He could not explain why this happened. However Ive noticed my weightloss still follows a pattern that corresponds to TOTM where I am bloated, can't eat much but don't really lose then i have a good loss next week. Midcycle I do the same then another 'loss'. Like a 2 week rota. Bloody Hormones!!!

 

[top_kat]

Mine is similar, although I have a mirena fitted so have no noticeable cycle/period each month, however around the dates, I do notice a difference in what I can or cannot eat and it is often the week leading up to that date where the hunger levels kicked in. And then the restriction I find is more felt the week after I would have it and less so the week after . . .very strange lol