Hey folks, Happy MLK Day to those of you who may have had a long weekend as I did! Actually I have been off work since last Tuesday when I was banded but today was a freebie day off.

I got on our scale here this morning and I find it so hard to believe that it read 31 lbs lower than when I stepped on it 5 months ago. I am really, really excited to go to my nutritionist app't on Thursday and see if it really is true! Is it really possible to drop this much so quickly?

I started eating mush today... yogurt for breakfast, mashed taters and gravy for lunch and will probably have pudding or jello for dinner. I've been very, very "full" all afternoon so I may not eat dinner at all if the full feeling doesn't go away?

Tomorrow I head back to work... I am planning my meals now to see what/how I can do this till I get back on regular foods!

Good luck back to work!

Hi there,

I was banded 1/14. It's a new year, new focus! Keep me posted on how you're dealing with the foods. I'm still on liquids and my biggest problem is that I keep burp, burp, burping.

Good luck! I'm not going back to work for another 1-2 weeks.

Take the food slow until the six week healing period is up. My doc says it's better to eat 6 small meals than 3 larger ones during this time as the internal stitches at your band are still healing. Congrats on the WL!!!! -BG