Sombra1718

Thanks so much that means a lot to me. I have not been drinking protein shakes but I am getting more protein that required each day.

I have been eating way more than I should and I have been having slider foods way too much... some of them very high in calories. I have had no fills and I don't really get hungry but head hunger is almost uncontrolable.

What are your healthy substitutes for sweets or when you have bad cravings?

Have any of you tried cooking those little meals in cupcake pans?

Know it is not unusual for the port area to hurt after surgery but I wonder for how long to expect pain? Mine still hurts and I was vended 6/7/12.

Oh that is a good idea I will have to find myself some tapes. I was wondering how long I should wait before I start doing full on workouts. Right now ( three weeks in) I am allowed to walk as much as I want but that's it.

I have a pretty severe food addiction but I also have a habit of buying way too many movies. I love them so much! Now that I have been banded 6/7/12 I found I was buying more than I usually do...so at least five per week now. It could be because I am bored but now that I noticed i was doing it I am backing off some. I think if we try to be aware of what we do and try to exercise restraint things will work out.

Oops...I meant "I always thought..."

So I posted this somewhere else and no one responded and I am sorry to be a nuisance but I was really excited about it so I thought I would try one more time...I hope you all don't mind So I thought it might be fun (and very, very helpful for myself and others) to try to generate some menu ideas. I do not do well without a plan and it takes me FOREVER! to write up menus for myself. I know we cannot all eat the same things sometimes but who better to know what a good lapband day should look like than my fellow lapbanders. So if you could tell me what you would eat for a whole day while following the lapband rules and even how you prepare the food (if you like) I would be so very appreciative!

I am very interested in taking a belly dance class. I walkway thought that if I lost enough weight I would take every dance class I could just to know all the dances. I have never danced before.

I was hoping to hear from some bandsters who have been successful but started out with a bad food addiction. I know we all probably have a food addiction to some extent but I feel like mine is sometimes uncontrolable. I'm scared that I might not be successful because I am already slipping. I know this is about will power. I just want to hear from the people who started like me.

I was banded on 6/17/12 and I am on the soft food stage and already having problems with control. I am still loosing but I just worry so much about the control. My therapist and I are gonna have to really start working hard on it. Thanks for your replies.

So far my days are looking like this but I'm really new at this: Breakfast: decaf coffee fat free creamer and Greek yogurt, 4 slices no sugar added peaches Lunch: 1/2 cup BBQ pulled chicken and 1 Laughing cow cheese wedge Dinner: boiled green Beans, 1/2 cup baked salmon (lemon and dill)

I have read that some people are following a 90/10 diet. Just from what I have read it sounds like this means following the lapband diet guidelines very closely 90% of the time and allowing oneself some excess 10% of the time. I could be misunderstanding though. Can those of you following this diet tell me more about it please? Thanks

To stretch your pouch would you have to eat enough to feel really full even without restriction. Would you feel that you are overdoing it? I ask because now without restriction I haven't been sticking to half a cup of food per meal. The worst I have done is two cups of soft food during one sitting.

I hope I can be as awesome as you if I ever fall of the wagon which is possible for anyone. You are just fabulous for starting again and I know you can do it because for you to not give up where other people might means you are very strong and when you make it to goal imagine the war story you are gonna have.

I am in the exact same boat. I am two weeks out and I have already cheated some. I did a three week liquid diet and did not cheat but as soon as I started my soft food stage I have had some very intense cravings. I will be in the store and even though I am telling myself no, and pretty much begging myself not to I still get that thing that I want and then I want more. I decided not to beat myself up about it and I am working with a counselor to help with the food addiction but it is hard and I don't know if I believe in completely denying myself what I want all the time. I don't think it is healthy. I just want to be where I can have a treat periodically and then continue on with my healthy eating.

Thanks you guys for letting me know. So now I am wondering what other styles of "diet" people use? What do your nutritionists tell you?

OMG are you serious!? What kind of revision are we talking about?

What do they do if they want to fix the flipped port. Is the fix as painful as the original surgery?

Awesome!!