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Foods that slide through your band easily and do not give you the satiety signal. Foods like soups, chips, cookies, refried beans, many mexican foods, crackers.

No. You're fine but stop eating crap! Drink protein shakes, cream soups, egg drop soup anything but crap.

Dilation of your pouch would be very painful for me and I would imagine most of us. It would mean that I'm pushing myself beyond being stuck and sliming. There are some whose pouch and esophogus seem to not have the nerve endings that give them the pain that should be associated with stretching that would take place? Being able to eat a lot of food does not equate to having a stretched or dilated pouch. It usually means you need a few fills and that your pouch(stomach) has become more efficient at pushing food through the stoma. And usually when we bandsters overeat, we eat around the band with slider type foods that shouldn't have any effect on the pouch. jmo

You can't really drink too much unless you're talking about more than 100 ozs?

Why are you feeling miserable?

We can advise you better if you fill your profile.

I eat 3 regular meals a day and two snacks too.

Perfectly normal. You have no saline in your band so the opening(stoma) is quite large. This allows all fluids and even most regular food to just flow right through to your stomach. tmf

Yes

Potato chips are what we call a slider food. Chips and crackers I can eat till the cows come home so I just don't buy them.

Lori, looks like you have some of the same misconceptions many of us had before surgery(I know I did). Some of us can eat anything we want. Just not the same volume we once ate or the same way we ate before surgery. And I know of no doctor who would encourage a patient to eat pizza 3 days post op and no one here would either. Here is a series of videos that Alex(the forum monitor)posted recently. A must watch for anyone considering the band or recently banded. I would recommend you set aside an hour to view each one before you have surgery. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/166857-the-eight-golden-rules-lap-band-videos-by-dr-paul-obrien/page__hl__alex#entry1962873

I was in "Bandster Hell" the entire time. That's where our band opening(stoma) is wide open and giving very little or no restriction. Hungry all the time. I started eating healthy which reduced my intake of bad calories and just having the band seemed to help me feel full with less food. I started exercising again so I probably kept pace with my fat loss by adding muscle. But, once I had my 4th fill my weight loss journey accelerated. tmf

I eat what I want and as much as I feel comfortable with. I don't miss much and like our forum member Pink Dahlia said: "I'm so stinkin' thrilled with my weight loss i dont even care about what i cant eat!" Some of us find certain foods like bread or steak or dry chicken hard to swallow. I don't, but some do. tmf

I lost 12 lbs the first two weeks and then nothing for the next 3.5 months. You're normal by my standards.

Astott, Like Honk said, stay away from carbs if you can and potatoes are one of the bad carbs. Maybe something with more Fiber and lower on the glycemic scale. You'll be fine but i don't understand the one meal a day comment? Maybe you need to speak to your doc or nutritionist as I don't think you're understanding their instructions? Lori Jo, you're new here. Many of us do not sugar coat our responses. Hope you stick around after surgery so you can also offer advice from personal experience. It won't do anyone any good to just pat them on the head and say do better next time? This is the last time for most of us so we better get it right. tmf

Depending on why you had knee surgery, arthritis is a co-morbidity. The list is long for co-morbidities and your PCP should be able to find one or more on the list that would apply. Osteoarthritis seems like a no brainer? http://www.lapband.com/hcp/en/bariatric_surgery/comorbidities/

Your stomach is still swolen and may be or another week to 10 days so you're feeling some restriction now. But it may not last. Cross your fingers you evade Bandster hell? tmf

YUCK!

That's a great point. I grew up on southern fried cooking and to this day chicken fried anything is like a magnet to my tongue. Looking for that warmth of my younger days of no pressure, no worries. tmf

I look forward to playing golf again. I remember two years ago went out with some friends to play 18 but my gut kept getting in the way and I shanked about 8 balls. LOL That's my story and I'm sticking to it. tmf

"I had the surgery in January 2013" I'm sure you meant 2010? Woo Hoo! HEY B-52, here's a positive topic/comment!!!! Sorry Golflady, just nudging one of our forum members who was complaining just this morning no one ever posts happy comments about their band!! Congrats on the great attitude!! tmf

I read the article: "Magazine articles about body image talk about loving yourself despite your flaws. Sometimes they get really radical and they talk about loving yourself because of your flaws, and that is supposed to be empowering. And it pisses me off, because we’re talking about flaws here." I think she's just plain pissed all the time and gets off on being pissed. jmo tmf

Because I liked the taste and feel of good food in my mouth and tummy. I may have ate more when I was stressed or depressed but that wasn't very often since I'm a happy guy anyway. I just like some flavors of food. tmf

3. The spouse of the WLS patient becomes insecure over the WLS patient's new sexuality and can't adapt.(maybe the same as #1?)