SweetKate

Hi All, Thought I would share a few items that have made my lap band journey much easier. I find these things easy to tolerate as long as I eat slowly and portion my food appropriately. I try to stay under 1000 calories a day and am 6 weeks post-op and have had one fill. Hope you enjoy! Morningstar Farms Parmesan Ranch Chik Patties: So good! 170 calories and perfectly sized. 10 grams of Protein. Morningstar Farms Sausage Patties: My favorite! So good with mustard for breakfast! Takes just like real sausage and has 160 calories for 2 patties and 20 grams of protein! Morningstar Farms Bacon Strips: 2 strips is 60 calories and has 2 grams of protein. Very crunchy! Gorton's Grilled Fish Fillets: Lemon Pepper or Cajun Blackened. 1 fillet is 100 calories and about 3.5 ozs. They are seriously good. I eat them almost every day. 1 fillet has 16 grams of protein and is very east to digest. Yoplait Scooby-Doo Rogurt (Portable Yogurt): I get the Strawberry/Fruit Punch kind and put them in the freezer. They make a really good snack and have just 80 calories for 1 tube. They are so good. Hostess cupcakes 100-calorie packs: They come in carrot cake with creamcheese icing, chocalate with chocolate icing, and yellow cake with chocolate icing. They are not the healthiest things in the world but are only 100 calories and seriously help with the sweets cravings. You get three little cupcakes (each is about the size of a 50-cent piece). Eat very slowly because they can be a little tough to digest. I hope you enjoy! Let me know if you have any recommendations or stuff that has helped make your Lap Band journey easier.

Yeah! Those are good, too! But, you can only have like two of them because they are higher in calories for some reason. I love them though.

I feel the same way about Macaroni & Cheese and Fettucini Alfredo! I buy the Lean Cuisine versions of these foods and I eat a 1/3 of the container as part of my dinner. They definitely satisfy my craving and are low in calorie. Good luck!

I lost 18 pounds and had my first fill 4 weeks after surgery. Since my first fill, I have lost 10 more pounds in a week!