wolfegirl

Hi all, My name is Amy I was banded 3 years ago. For the first year the weight was easy to loose. Now I have not lost anything in over a year. I work out 5+ times a week and actually enjoy it. I am currently training for a 5K and at my weight it has been extremly difficult. I have talked to a Nutritionist at my gym and got extremly depressed. The amount of food I was expected to eat was mind boggeling. I explained to her I don't eat in one day what you have me eating in one meal. So I guess it boils down to I can not loosed weight becasue my calorie intake is to low. She pretty much says I am starving my body, Sure I can get 1200 calories if I eat candy and iced coffe which don't get me wrong I would love to do but I also understand those are not nutritious calories. PLEASE HELP ME!! What do you eat? I need someone who has been sucessful and understands the challenges and limitations of lapband to be able to talk to.

I love the furnace/metabolism analogy it is very fitting. So how far out from surgery are you? What do you eat in a day to achieve you calories?

Thank-you! I have always eaten fairly healthy lots of fruit and veggies so now that I eat so much less it is so hard to get enough calories in a day. I've been tracking what I eat on livestrong.com becasue I thought I was taking in more than I realized but I was actually worse than I expected. I only get 800-900 calories a day. What does the average banded person eat in a day to stay balanced?

I've eaten that brand for years and have not found anything else that is edible and still has that many grams of protein.

I had a stomach flu less than a year after surgery and I was so scared it was like no flu I had ever experienced. Sharp pains and as we all know vomiting after banding is just weird. I took my anti-nausea meds that had been prescribed post surgery and that helped allot!