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Some need very little fill. Sounds like you need an unfill. If you can't eat 3 oz solid protein you are too tight. Also if you can swallow liquids you can eat Greek yogurt. Much better option than junk food. Are you getting enough sleep? Band won't give you bags.e

2 1/2 yrs out knock on wood no vomiting or PBs.

Are you allowed decaf coffee with splendra? Or crystal light?Helps with head hunger.

No. Did you eat anything salty.

Do some research. The pressure from the fabric is BD for your nerve endings. Can lead go numbness.

Does your doctor consider yogurt a liquid? Mine saw it as a mushie.

Wait a year.

My doctor wanted me to lose 10% body weight before scheduling surgery. Took me about 2.5 months to loose 30 pounds.

Restriction at 10.6.

Week 1 mushies yogurt (mince fruit in hand blender), cottage cheese or ricotta. Week 2 canned chicken or tuna mixed with low fat laughing cow.

Are you exercising? I do 60 minutes 7 days a week and have no trouble sleeping.

I would say you need to do 7 days a week. At least 30 minutes.

Greek yogurt with half scoop protein powder mix; add walnuts and kashi go lean (about 1/2 cup). Splendra to taste. Have it every weekday for lunch.

I would consider foods high in sugar and or fat empty calories. I would look for foods with high vitamin/nutrients per calorie.

One Flinstone Chewable with Choline (costco brand). Before I lost weight I actually had my bloodwork done and I was VERY malnurished. I may have been eating a lot but my food choices were all highly processes and not at all nutritious.

1 other thing about the pain you are getting. Not all gallbladder pain is the same. I understand what you're saying about getting pains when your stomach is empty. However drinking water does help it doesn't have to be food. In fact when I had my gallbladder out 20 years ago ( after having lost 100 lbs which I gained back) I would have those ghost pains after surgery if my stomach got really empty in the middle of the night. In fact after lap band surgery I actually had 1 of those attacks again when my stomach was really really empty in the middle of the night. When I mentioned it to the nurse practitioner she was actually quite worried and said if I continue to have these pains that I needed to have a test to make sure the band hadn't slipped. I think I had 1 "attack" after lap band surgery and then never had 1 again. And yes the Phantom attacks were bad enough to wake me up in the middle of the night. They normally came during PMS. So not sure if they were hormone related or due to swelling of some kind.

My doctor originally required that I lose between 30 and 35 pounds before surgery. Due to resolving a blood clot I had to wait about 7 months before actually having surgery. During that time I lost 50 pounds. 1 thing that is concerning me is that you said I understand why I'm fat. This is almost verbatim what I said to myself when I was told I had to attend therapy sessions with food addiction specialist. These sessions weren't so much about admitting that I was fat but understanding why I was over eating. And recognizing my personal triggers. We were discussing things to do when you had the urge to eat. I said well you can go to the movies. 1 of the other women looked at me like I had 2 heads and said that's a terrible idea because you have to eat at the theater. I've never bought food at the movie theater. In my family if we had money to go to the movies didn't have money to buy overpriced snacks. So that woman and I had different sets of triggers. Something else we covered in those sessions was when you get the urge to eat asking yourself why do you want to eat. Are you truly hungry? Are you bored? Are you tired? These are questions I never would've asked myself before those sessions.

Please ask your doctor for post operation food details! Many of us were on 1 week clear liquids second week full liquids meaning tomato or squash soup. I was not allowed mushy's like yogurt until week 3 and then cottage cheese in week 4. Is very important you find out what your doctor wants you to do.

For the general Vitamin my doctor said Flintstones chewable with choline. Make sure to get 1 that contain choline because not all types do. I buy the store brand from costco and my bloodwork has been fine. I also Caltrate chewable Plus which is Calcium Plus D. Being a lady of a certain age I also take a dedicated Iron. 1 thing to be careful of is not to take calcium with iron at the same time because Iron prevents the body from absorbing calcium. Because I have always had bad Vitamin D levels I also take a chewable vitamin D. To help with regularity I also take vitafusion chewable Fiber. I do take a bite chew swallow and then take a second bite of the fiber gummy. I've never had a problem getting stuck. Since my doctor had recommended Flint stone Vitamins I've never really seen the need to search out more expensive bariatric vitamins. After all we are supposed to be eating like thin people and most of them buy vitamins at the store they don't go looking for some expensive brand you can only buy on the internet. And that's from someone who does a lot of shopping on the internet.

I would review your doctor's instructions. Yes I know everybody says that. The reason why I want to stress that is that every doctor is different in what they consider mushies. My first week of mushies was only yogurt, cottage cheese ricotta. That's a far cry from anything that you can put in the blender. Remember just because it mushed in a blender doesn't mean it's the right weight. And when you eat something it's going to go into the small stomach and pull on the stitches there from the band until it passes through into the big stomach.

It's important to remember that the surgeon has to contend with the fat in the belly area while doing the surgery. That's why they ask higher weight people to lose weight. I watched a surgery on YouTube and saw this yellow stuff and wondered what it was and then realized it was fat that they were pushing thru. After seeing that I really understand why my doctor wants me to lose 35 pounds before surgery. Please understand that at my heaviest I was around 380 pounds. And my BMI would have been well over 60. Well before ever considering the band I started to modify my food habits and exercise activities and has lost 50 pounds. So it is possible to lose weight without the band. Another thing that concerns me a little is the ideas that the band is a fix for being fat. It can't outsmart you. A lot of this is going to be psychological effort. Especially in the beginning before you have restrictions from fills. If your doctor does not require sessions with a psychologist that specializes in eating disorders then I really suggest that you go to 1 anyways. I thought those sessions were going to be a major waste of time and I was really wrong. I've never been to a therapist before I which could explain why I thought it was going to be a waste of time. These sessions can help you understand why you overeat. And having that knowledge helps you counter act emotional overeating. Most doctors won't do the Lap Band and gallbladder surgery at the same time. Mine says it's because the Lap Band is clean surgery I guess meeting they're not cutting away any living tissue; while the gallbladder involves cutting off living tissue. Which gives you a higher chance of infection. Also some peoples gallbladders have become a diseased in addition to having created the gallstones.

My concern is about alcohol in general. No one NEEDS beer. There is a very real risk in transfer addiction. There are a lot of people after WLS who become alcoholics.