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High Protein Foods This has most foods I've looked up. The other list has never opened for me. It's a fire wall thing, I think.

I so wish I would have had this option when I was in my twenties. I'm fifty six now and just starting but it's gonna be sweet, kids.

The band won't conquer your demons, nor will it keep you from eating the wrong foods. It will help you to fill up fast, and you have to learn to be satisfied with what fills you up. I'm sorry you are both having such issues. I hope it gets better for you.

I have two cups of coffee a day.

I'm staying on-target today because I can, because I OWN the power to do it. Yahhhhhhhhhh for me. :ohmy:

UHC Texas Employer provided and paid for by employee in part. Banded and covered by ins without hassle.

I use my blender. I got a bullet but it's a waste of time and money as far as I'm concerned. I'm always tricked by those infomercials. lol

All these answers filtered through all these patients. I wish we were all on the same page. :ohmy: I have a 10cc band with three ccs put in at the time of surgery. Three weeks post op, no hunger yet and I have had restriction from the very beginning.

I strive really hard not to label foods "bad" or "good" or my eating behavior as "bad" or "good". Those two words have such emotional impact. I simply think of both as on target or not on target. Everyone misses once in a while, no?

I use slim fast low carb shakes. Less exotic, but readily available and not too bad. I mix in a small pack of baby food fruit into a vanilla one (after the clear liquids phase) and it helps to vary the taste a lot. Mango with nutmeg tastes very good.

I had a low carb diet that apparently also works to shrink the liver. He said my surgery went very smoothly. I have pictures of my stomach with the band on. errrk.

All these stories shouldn't scare you. Don't you want to know the possibilities? I sure as hell did. I haven't had any issues yet, BUT a lot of stuff that is talked about here was never addressed by my surgeon. I went into it being aware of what might happen, and prepared to deal with it. It is a wise person who can learn from other's experience/mistakes.

You might try Googling ketosis. It's a fairly lengthy subject, if you want to understand it.

You don't say how many calories you eat. Do you log your food? If not, you should start and be brutally honest, log everything! When you are overweight, hunger is not going to kill you. Hunger doesn't represent anything but your body wanting to use the easy fuel. Allow yourself to be hungry.

I can't stress enough that I believe you have to at least be on the path to understanding and changing your obession with food before surgery. At the minimum, I believe you need a real committment to reclaiming the power that you have given food in your life. If you don't, it will be cold turkey, baby, and that is rough. If you don't go cold turkey, you may do some damage to yourself by eating recklessly or end up wanting the band removed and bewailing that you have it. You will learn to be satisfied with feeling "not hungry" as opposed to "stuffed to the brim and almost sick". I think that getting over the obession with food is a strong positive thing. I wasn't so obessed with food as I was a self medicator. I'm still working on it, but I've made great progress. Only you can decide if you should do it. I would do it again a hundred times.

After thirty years of smoking, I quit one year ago. I used Chantx. It was the only way I would have quit. I can't reccomend it highly enough. The big thing for me when I quit smoking was that I could never get that "ahhhhhhhh" relaxed feeling when I took the first puff. I searched for a while for an alternative. Then I finally had to realize that there is NO alternative. You learn to no need it. It's worth quitting. It truly is.

I'm all for fat free milk, Gordon. Great way to get some lean protein and some calcium. I drink a pint every day. In fact, I fill a little one pint container and I used it during the day for soup or whatever cooking and then when I want a small drink, I take one (hey - it's MY container). :wub:

I love the Wal-Mart version of the low carb drinks. They are great. I love the orange.

On my doctor's reccomendation I have a slim fast low carb drink. It has 20 grams of protein.

I was banded on 3/5 and burping is an issue for me. I can't. I think it's fine, don't force it.

I think that we need to distinguish between our fuel tanks satisfaction and that other satisfaction we sought with food that made us morbidly obese. I, for some reason, have no hunger. I'm only two weeks post op so I have just started very soft mushie foods. I eat three times a day and drink one Protein shake. I measure my food so that I eat enough. My issue is the comfort eating. I'm wanting to eat, despite the fact I have no hunger. Habits are hard to break but I read somewhere that it takes 21 days to establish a new habit and at least that long to change an existing one. I look forward to my seemingly incessant need to satisfy and pacify with food. I have quite a clear signal of when to quit and am very uncomfortable if I don't.

I had surgery at 8 am and was home by 2 pm. You will need someone to drive you or you will need to take a taxi.

I mix the canned chicken with a dab of mayonnaise and a little sweet relish and it tastes great and is very soft. The bonus is that it is on the shelf and requires little preparation and it is inexpensive.

See a different doctor to have it removed if your surgeon refuses. I wish you the best of luck.

My doctor reccomended Slim Fast low carb and I haven't had any issues with them at all and I've been on them for about six weeks now.