dwarden

This Georgia Girl would give up the band before the grits. Have a good time with them. For the record, grits are made from corn that is ground medium fine. You put salt and butter on them, sometimes ham or bacon in them. Or you can mix them in your fried eggs over easy and chopped fine. And fried fish with cole slaw and a side of cheese grits is a classic Southern comfort food meal. Whatever you do, don't put milk and sugar on them. You might as well tattoo "Yankee" on your forehead. Go Dawgs!!

You might also want to make sure you're not getting too LITTLE fat. Some vitamins like Vitamin E that are necessary for skin are fat soluble. If you don't get enough fat, you won't get enough of the vitamins in your system. That happened to my Mom when she was doing this <15 gms of fat per day diet. She lost weight, but she looked dreadful and had all sorts of weird rashes.

As long as he can flip it back over to access it, it should be fine. My concern with leaving one flipped and not accessible is if, God forbid, there should be an emergency and I would need an unfill and no one would be able to get to it. Mine is stuck face down and I'll have to have it flipped and resutured as an outpatient surgery. We tried flip it under flouro today, but no luck. It is firmly stuck. I need a fill, but honestly, there's a family reunion this weekend, and I really don't want to be doing liquids.

I've been stuck at 204 for a month.

I get the deli to shave the chicken breasts so that they are falling apart thin, then I make chicken salad out of it. The ham and roast beef don't shave the same way.

I can't drink a soft drink from a bottle, but I'll occasionally get a fountain drink. They seem to go flat faster. Otherwise, the hiccups are dreadful.

I've never had any problem with ordering from the kids menu. I do carry a card that my surgeon's office gave me stating that I've had surgery and can only eat limited portions. Since I had the surgery in October, I've only had one person ask to see my card.

Can do peanut butter on crackers but not on regular bread.

When CIGNA approved mine, they had rejected it twice. I had decided to have my hysterectomy since it looked like no approval in sight. I got the approval letter the day I came home from the hospital. I stood on the driveway in my bathrobe laughing hysterically. My family wasn't too sure about me. I had to wait six more months to have the LapBand because I had just had the big surgery. Then they held up paying the hospital for the LapBand because it had been so long. A phone call fixed everything.

Wendy's Chili is pretty good. So are the Bean Burritos from Taco Bell. For me, fast food is OK as long as I don't eat it in the car. I eat too fast and take too big bites then. The chicken nuggets from Chick-Fil-A are pretty good, too. and they are easier to take slowly while negotiating traffic.

I'm glad to know that someone else has a problem with not drinking while eating. I can't manage it either. I'm a nurse and we're not allowed to have drinks in the recovery room - a long way from the break room. If I don't drink with lunch, I don't get any fluids until I get off work. If I try to get all my water in after work, I'm up all night making potty trips. I started trying to drink a 1/2 bottle of water before I start lunch. It seems to help keep that first bite from getting stuck, too.

Does anyone know if Lap-Banders have a higher incidence of duodenal ulcers? I've got this dreadful pain below in my upper mid-abdomen not near my port. It gets better if I eat or if I take Pepcid or Zantac or something like that. I had a CT scan last week, and my surgeon says my band is fine. And I've already had my gallbladder out years ago. Any suggestions?

One thing I was told was not to hide in my clothes. I started out wearing a 3x (22/24), and I'm down to only 1 x on my shirts. Unfortunately a 1x in the big girls sizes (18/20) is not the same as a XL in the regular sizes (16/18), so depending on how it's cut, it may or may not be decent. Of course, my butt is still stuck firmly in the big girls section.