Daisalana

I tried a 'light' or maybe 'sugar-free' cranberry juice by oceanspray.. is that the same as the one you had? I myself thought it was way too artificially sweet, and 'splurge' on the good stuff once in a blue moon if I want some CJ. But there is a low-sugar, or diet, or light (has pale blue cap I think) orange juice. The main makers of OJ.. forget the name now.. Tropicana? Their light OJ is very very good.

Thinking of keeping a sliming journal so I can tally what didn't work and why. Slimed bad on the frito today.. hubby was too hungry to wait for me to cook, so wanted to know what I wanted from fast food. I said nothing, figured I'd make me a chicken salad later. But he comes back with honey bbq wings from KFC. Pre-band.. we have one down the road, I love those wings.. but literally 8/8 times that I ordered them they ALWAYS gave me the wrong damn wings (normally some spicy hot nastiness). So he got them, for the first time ever-- it was the right ones!! He left 2 for me.. so I nibbled at one, enjoying the yummy good sauce.. SLIME SLIME SLIME. I don't even know why???? I barely ate anything, hadn't gotten to the chicken yet. The breading & sauce did it.. and I was really nibbling!! BLECH. Going to take my protein test tube and watch some tv, read some fun stuff on the boards today. Panda, I can't get over it!!!! You look like you've been banded for a year or something. What's your secret pretty lady?

Jachut- love the new avie! WOOOWOO!! For the first 5 months after banding I ate everything I ate pre-band with no problems just smaller amounts. Now I'm pretty restricted and I can eat most things, but random things get stuck. I made short ribs slow cooked last night, went down fine.. a few days ago I ate a slice of extra-thin sliced turkey deli meat.. and it got stuck and made me slime. chicken goes down most the time if I make sure to chew chew chew...and it's not super dry plain chicken. I eat it in chicken salad or with sauce on it. And as scary as it seems, that you're going into a surgery that will make it potentially IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT YOUR FAVORITE FOODS!!! (OH NOOOOOS) You really don't miss it like that. Things I can't have right now.. bagels.. and until last week I had a bagel a couple times a week for b'fast.. and I love bagels!! But I can't eat all that bread right now, and I'm ok with that. 2 pieces of bacon or a glass of milk get me by I don't worry about 'tasting' my 'favorite foods'.. I just eat what fills me up and go about my day. It makes more sense on the other side

Barium doesn't bother me.. but one thing that makes me vomit.. my body makes me do it.. is anti-diarhea meds.. Immodium.. liquid or even the capsules.. As soon as it hits my throat (even if I'm taking the capsules with HUGE amounts of water) it just makes me gag it up 90% of the time. I never understood why these bother me so much.. maybe has to do with the chemical yadda yadda?

But is it good?

Hah, glad this thread was bumped, I must have missed it. OP certainly has a way with words!!! Since my last fill, I have the foot long things of slime as well. I learned today swallowing it is not a good idea.. makes it worse. I know, that's gross.. was trying not to let my mom know I was having an episode, so spit up 3 times in my mouth before I ran to find a trash can. Mine make HUGE bubbles too. I slime about once a day now.. I blame myself though, I went 5 months thinking I understood the restriction.. now it's all new again. I'm learning! Mine are painful, and it feels like flem is building up in my throat.. then I spit up tiny bits of food in a 2-10 ratio with flem/bubbles/slime/spit. And then I'm not hungry anymore, yay! ROFL

I was gonna say someone lied to me then.. my inamed band is silicone

My barium stuff wasn't that bad.. I wouldn't drink it everyday, but it was right up there with 99% of these Protein shakes I've tried!! I bought MS sausage links and something else.. might be patties of some kind or bacon? But I heated up sausage one night, it was so disgusting I threw both boxes out and wrote off MS. The texture was horrible and the taste even worse. Are their chicken patties fake chicken?

That's so weird... outside of the forum I don't know ANY nurses!! --- Edit to add... my mom was a nurse until I was about 8 and my g'ma was a chief lady nurse whatever that is until she retired.

Yesterday morning I had bacon & eggs for b'fast.. the eggs made me slime really bad, so I tried adding ketchup.. still slimed. Me and DH were watching tv, I've gotten into the habit of keeping empty plastic cups around the house. I sit there spitting up slime into them. My mom said it sounded like I need an unfill, so I don't tell her about my sliming. Went to the doc, they said it's an infection and might be yeast, so they gave me meds, I asked for them in liquid form (YECH). So at moms, I took my dose, both tasted sooo nasty, and mom was eating fritos.. so to get the taste out, I ate a frito. We were watching a movie.. and it made me slime bad, and I didn't want to spit up the medicine, so I just let it collect in my mouth for a minute.. but 3 spit-ups later, I couldn't take it anymore so I went to the kitchen and spit it all out in the trash.. mom was like 'do you not like the movie??' I sure do slime a lot more lately. We watched Magdelane Sisters.. it's a true story about the girls who got sent to the convents in Ireland and the abuse they went through. It was pretty sad.

Lunasa- if you want to do the secret santa, PM me your addy & full name :rose: Everyone at work (and DH) are having horrible allergies and colds right now. Knock on wood, even with DH coughing and sneezing in my face, I've not gotten it. I give thanks to Flintstones!!! I swear by Zicam too! The first day DH was sick, I swabbed my nose with the little thingies, just to be safe. He was sick 4 days, then I told him to use Zicam not just dayquil/nyquil.. and he started feeling better. Zicam always worked wonders with my colds. He went and bought the soft chew things of Zicam and said they were disgusting. I like the nose swabs. I still think I have a UTI.. It's getting worse, and I guess I need to go to a clinic or something, but gosh I hate that stuff..waiting forever, weird doctors. It's hard to pee, and then when I do, it hurts in my lower abdomen.. and sex hurts?! I have a lot of anti-biotics from all kinds of things.. I took one last night, the band dr. gave to me right before my first surgery.. they saw infection in me but didn't know where it was coming from.. then they figured it out and gave me another antbiotic.. I also have amoxicillin and penicillen. I wish I knew which antibiotic to take so I don't have to waste a trip to the clinic!!

so to include sweet-n-low in the mix, in a glass of unsweet tea, what did you put packets wise? I like sweet-n-low in tea just fine, but I'm always open to new things!

I know what stores fit me with what sizes.. Like Alloy.com sells plus size-tall pants. I haven't bought pants from anywhere else in years and years. But I know their sizes run small, they're 'junior plus' instead of 'womens plus'.. or 'misses plus'.. which are huge differences. Maybe SJP line is junior plus sizes? I haven't heard about it.. I Like Cato, their sizes are normally big for the size I've found.. but they don't seem to have the same brands because some of the brands run small for the size.

I'm an account manager of a place that makes all the paper products for CD's & DVD's.

Ok.. I'm in a high protein kick, trying to find foods, shakes, etc. that I might like. Bariatriceating.com pissed me off the 1 time I ordered from them, they lost my order (AFTER charging me).. but anyway, so I vowed never to shop there again. But I decided to browse anyway, nothing too impressive, so I'm not going back there. Netrition doesn't really have foods does it? It's so hard to maneuver their website, I only see vitamins and shakes.. Then I found one of the top sites for 'bariatric foods' is Nashua Nutrition. I'm browsing, some things I'd like to try, but I notice MOST of it is 'Nashua Nutrition' brand. I've never heard of it before. Anyone tried this brand, and if so have anything to say about it? Saw an omelet with cheese & bacon, has good nutritional info, but there's no description except "1 serving= 1 pouch, box has 7 servings". Pouch? So is it a powder you mix with water? Is it already made and you heat it up in the microwave? I need more info.. Or, if someone knows a good bariatric food website, let me know!

ooo thanks, there was a lot of things on there I wanted to try but didn't see nutritional. I'll have to go back now.

lunasa- most definitely I have those days.. I'm tired of 'dieting' and I say screw it.. especially when I was having trouble with restriction all these months, I went off the exercise and diet train plenty of times. I am finally restricted and more motivated. Are you feeling restricted yet? We miss you around here!!!! mdrai- im gonna check chat and see if you're there tracy- thanks for the recommendation, im gonna have to try those.. i've been lookin for the 'candy bars that are secretly protein' I saw one on my Unwrapped tv show, i wanted to try them, but can't find a place to buy just 1.. have to buy a case, and I'm not interested in a whole case in the chance they're horrid.

oh and thanks, the pic in my siggy i made when i was in a design class and it became my husband's desktop lol so I thought I'd add it here, I liked how it turned out too.. all mysterious lookin hehe

I'll help you name the dust bunnies, onederland is eons away for me too ^^

Bert- And just to clarify, you say they are good right?

On netrition though, am I just missing it, but they don't show nutritional info? I was looking there the other day, the low-carb stuff tells you carb content, but no inkling to the calories/fat/etc.

At restaurants, when I didn't want to spend money I'd get water with lots of lemon.. squeeze it into the water and add a sweet-n-low.. makes a really good lemonade! I've never made it at home for lack of lemons, but lemon in water is a good drink too.

Glad you figured that out, I always thought people took a long time to type those posts with the first letter capitalized too LOL!! Panda you look amazing! WOWEEEE!!! I wish I had that kind of after pic already!

Thanks for the tip Bert, I'm going to check them out!

Michelle- How can you come to a board where people are having weight loss surgery and try to lament that you're a fat blob?!?!? DO YOU HAVE NO SHAME?!?!? We're not fat blobs, we're pregnant with ice cream's baby :confused: Don't make us go over there and steal your pics!!