Daisalana

I would think you could make any ground beef recipe. Make meatloaf? I love my granny's meatloaf! (It's on the lipton onion soup box). Mix the beef/or turkey? with the lipton soup mix, 1c bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1/4c ketchup, and 1/4c water. Bake at 350 for an hour! (I dump the grease out halfway through, and then again at the end). Kat- I loooove saurkraut. I love norwegian/german food. It is my FAVORITE. I could eat weinerschnitzel or weiners and saurkraut or red cabbage saurkraut everyday for the rest of my life and be a happy woman.. and fat of course! But I don't like mexican :eek: Good luck at the docs!!

Same here.. I was terrified of 'not making it work'...I didn't want my band to slip, or the stitches to rip out, I had horrible visions of what that would be like in my head, and it kept me on the straight and narrow. That being said.. I was allowed jell-o on my clear liquid phase. Did your doctor say you could have that? It's a pretty nice treat. And it's time to get back on the saddle! MOVE ON! And though I don't encourage this as a lifestyle, one of my weaker moments when I just HAD TO HAVE SOMETHING.. my DH had pizza.. and I don't even LIKE pizza.. but it was calling my name. So I took the crust from a piece he had eaten, and I just sucked on it/chewed on it...then spit it out.. I rinsed my mouth out afterward so I wouldn't swallow any crumbs (again, terrified of the prospect of losing the band), but it tied me over for the unbearable urges.

I've never had canned ham.. so it's yummy yummy? The canned chicken is new to me, and right now my fav. food mixed like you just listed.

My doctor fills them during the surgery too, but he puts a little amount.. he said to make sure they don't leak by time you start doing fills. He said I had .5cc in mine, but I tell you.. until they fixed my port recently, I wasn't feeling the restriction unless I did something like ate a big bite of bagel without good chewing. But, my doctor does do barium swallows the next day before you leave the hospital. I think that should be required, especially if the doctor if filling it while you're under!!

Congrats!!! I had to take magnesium citrate the night before, and I was in a hotel room. I was done with 'all that' by 3am, and my surgery was at 5:30am.. so I didn't get much sleep either!! Good luck tomorrow and hope you have a fast recovery :eek:

My poll answer isn't available.. I PB every day at least once right now! Mine don't last hours or anything, but its a lot of slime and the golf-ball feeling.

It's normal to be scared. Avoid the complications thread, that was the best thing I did for myself :eek: And I went through the B&A Pics over and over. I don't have suggestions on filling up, the liquid stage for me was just toughing it out. Knowing it was for a good cause! I kept chicken broth handy and sipped it whenever I was getting hungry. I also put seasoning in it, I use Papa John's seasoning packets (DH orders lots of pizzas, I'd have him get me the packets).

Woweeeeeeeee! You look FANTASTIC!

Blah day for me so far. We have a policy.. we won't print racist, satanic, pornographic, overly-gorey stuff. One of my customers has been working with us for a month on a project that is.. disgusting.. mutilated body with organs all over the place. SOME HOW no one caught it until today. So *I* had to say, yeah we've worked on it for a month but this isn't what we do.. but after a meeting they decided we'll do it this one time since we already did so much of it already.. but gah, I hate when things like this happen. Makes me feel like an idiot. Had granola bites (mmmmmmm) for b'fast. Drinking lots of water, surprisingly I'm not too hungry today. I brought some cheese crumbles & 2 deli slices of ham (this may end up being a BIG mistake) for lunch today. I bought some bread last night, to my surprise had 70c per 2 slices. And lots of fiber in it. My DH eats his healthy whole grain wheat or something, it's nasty IMO and it is 110c PER SLICE. So 2 slices @ 70c was exciting. Then after the fact, I think.. if I can't get down chicken how the hell am I going to eat a SANDWHICH. I guess I'll make toast sometime. 35c per 1 slice of toast. I'm making my tried and true (and lazy) dinner tonight. Keilbasa with saurkraut. Cut up the keilbasa, throw it in a pot with the saurkraut and let it cook for an hour.

Oh I cut this out, might as well finish the whole thing.. The quote of the month is by Jay Leno: "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, floodi ng, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"

That's probably a good thing, I'm just.. stubborn/stupid/not willing to give it up, I don't know

OMG Kat that is scary!!!!! Is there a bullet hole somewhere in the truck?? Glad you're ok, I would have swerved off the guardrail.. and that's why no one in their right mind would let me drive a truck! My doctor said to do the protein shakes during post-op, and then when I eat meals after the diet thing, always eat protein first. He never said to eat a whole helluva lot of protein, he just said that's what keeps you full and protein products stay in the pouch longer. Which is true, and I take my test tubes for my nails. They're sooo long and pretty now, and they use to peel very bad. And protein shakes for b'fast is what I would LIKE to do, just so I am not eating crappy b'fast foods (normally granola bar and coffee) just for health's sake. So far, no shake that I like though. I made my new chicken recipe tonight.. And home-made red mashed potatos. I made DH a full chicken breast, and 1/2 of a breast for me. Gosh, my eyes still aren't shrinking to meet my new RESTRICTED stomach. I've been sooo hungry all day, I whined about it here! But I was able to eat 2 small small teeny tiny bites with the gravy sauce and I was done with the chicken. Then I ate about 4 bites of the taters with the gravy. That gravy was awesome. And now I feel STUFFED. It's hard to wrap my brain around this stuff. I eat a granola bar for b'fast with no problem.. I could probably eat 10 of them! But chicken and potatos? Very little.

The one about food not falling on your boobs.. well, that's not happened yet.. and in fact, I'm outgrowing my cups.. I'm not sure why.. I understand less fat under my boobs now, so there's a clear distrinction between boobs and tummy, but for them to not fit in the cups is baffling me. It's been a long time joke since I met DH, that 2/3 meals I end up with something on my boobs and have to change clothing.

And Eliper- I read that on THESE forums when I was pre-op and getting ideas of what I need to have handy. Actually it was BBQ tongs I think, to wipe your bum. I couldn't bring myself to it, and luckily I didn't need them!!!

Hahaha this is too funny.. and true

Well, I don't count carbs or sugar.. I count calories and take note of protein hehe.

In June I lost 0lbs (and gained 0lbs, was an oddity to me!).. and then July I lost 8lbs. Nothing changed from month to month. Exercise, diet, and fill level--all the same. I think our bodies just decide to do what they want! Damn them!! Try keeping measurements, sometimes you can be losing inches and your scale isn't moving.

But what about the celebrities that make a demonstration? The singers and such that preach their beliefs at their concerts. Or taking an award show to tell their speel? Anyone see Sally Fields on the award show recently? if not, do go utube it, she makes a real dummy of herself. I have family in Kuwait right now, and frankly I'm tired of everyone being against the war. I support our troops. Period. I don't give 2 rat turds what Sally Fields' take is on it. She got an award for a tv show, stick to that.

Your GOAL is to be hungry with 1/4-1/2c of food (everyone has their own thoughts on that). But after banding--- and before you are resticted well.. that's not going to happen. It's bandster hell.. while you're waiting to be filled to the restriction of choice, it's like you don't even have the band (for me anyway). So you get filled up. Eventually you get filled to the point of good restriction, and when you eat little portions of food you get full.

Just a thought for people who have found a vanilla protein powder they like.. My g'father makes a dreamsykle with meal replacement vanilla powders & diet orange soda. He mixes a scoop of the vanilla powder, 1c of orange diet soda, and 1c of ice, blend in a blender... makes a dreamsykle smoothie.. I've never tried it, but he says they're good!

I took the capsules. My doc gave me a Rx of it just to till I could have my first fill, since I was so hungry all the time. It worked just like my ephedrine items (which I call my legal speed). I just took it instead of ephedrine until I ran out. My doc is anti-diet pills.. so he told me (and my mom who was there) "You're my witness, I'm giving her these for one month, but I won't be the one writing her Rx for diet pills!". Har har.. and now I'm back on ephedrine. I love the stuff, they act the same.. but I don't think about food physically or mentally allllll day. Mine wear off around 8pm if I take it in the morning, and at 8pm I want to binge eat.. that's the downside. Ephedra you are suppose to take 3 a day, but I don't.. and I know if I took one at night before I got hungry I would never sleep. They make me wired, energetic, non-hungry, and I endorse them! I get lots of house cleaning done on the weekends if I take them. I haven't had them since my 2nd surgery.. my ephedra pills are horsepill sized, and since I've been getting stuck on deli sliced turkey I thought a horsepill may not go down well. But it shows I'm not addicted, because I'm not dying to have them!

ROFLMAO! That's exactly what I was thinking! How have these people made it so far in their life... Bees sting the watermelons? Poor watermelons!

LOL! The stuff in my store.. ok, the pictures are ME in SecondLife. That's what my little girl looks like. All the things I'm wearing in all those pictures, I made. They're not tangible in our real world, but in the game of SecondLife, people purchase my dresses, outfits, etc. They wear them in SecondLife, then go to a SecondLife club and dance the night away. Oh well, I'll stop trying to explain it, don't want to confuse you guys anymore My initial point is, I'm content with the extra income that place is making me! I found a new chicken recipe I'm making tonight. Sounds easy.. chicken breasts, top with a slice of swiss cheese, sprinkle with onions and cover with cream of chicken soup. I'm sooo hungry right now darn it.. and I don't feel like cooking tonight.. but fast food makes me unhappy now. I get no joy out of trying to eat fast food.

Terri- Aww.. I got my mom into it, she's 47! She plays a bingo type game inside of SecondLife.. It's basically 'the real world' in a 'virtual world'. They have stocks, IBM, Coca Cola, etc. own islands in it. You own real estate, you sell it. You run shops, you make clothes, you build cars. People customize what they look like. You go to clubs, you go to parties, you go to games like Bingo.. It's... interesting. I only make my clothes and set up shops, I never got into the whole.. live another life. Well, except in my 'second life' I am a clothing designer, and that's neat!

And time for post 3.. My life is going so good, it's time for the downer part. My sister's fever still hasn't broken in 4 weeks. She almost passed out from not being able to breathe yesterday, so.. she's not getting better. They said if she didn't seem better by today they are hospitalizing her. So that's what they're doing. Then me and my mom were talking, mom thinks maybe it's HIV. Since she is getting infections everywhere, her immune system isn't working.. but they don't know 'why'. I figured they would have tested for std's already. But sister gives blood to Lifesouth a couple times a year. We wondered if they test, do they call? Mom was too nervous to call, so I called them. They said they do test for it routinely and they DO call. So I think that's ruled out.