LeighaMason

I don't know, but it shrinks your liver and makes the surgery safer for you. If your surgeon doesn't have to fight the liver he has a better chance of placing the band where he wants it for optimal performance. Its worth it.

Sure, sliders are high calorie foods that are easy to eat. They vary for different people but can consist of Ice Cream, Milkshakes, smoothies, Yogurt, pudding, Soups, chocolate, Breakfast cereals, Chili, any type of sauce added to meat, plus tarter sauce on fish can make it a slider. They are called sliders cause the slide right through the band into your big stomach leaving the pouch empty and calling for more food. It defeats the purpose. Usually these are high calorie, low nutrition foods. If you get too tight you can start just eating high calorie, easy to swallow sliders and then you are getting too many calories and not enough nutrition plus you feel hungry. Triple whammy! Also I was banded within 1 month of my initial consultation. But do research it before you jump in. (Jumping into things is my specialty, I would lose my mind if I had to wait a year)

Here is my go-to snack list (in no particular order) 1) Mozzarella cheese stick 80 cal. 8g Protein 2) Chobani Greek yogurt 140 cal. 14g protein 3) 6 crackers/ 1 wedge laughing cow light 129 cal 2.5g protein 4) EAS Protein Drink carb advantEDGE 110 cal. 17g protein 5) Special K Protein Bars 190 cal. 10g protein 6) Starkist lunch to go kit 260 cal. 22g protein 7) unjury chicken Soup flavor protein mix 90 cal. 21 g protein These Snacks fill me up without throwing me off my calorie plan for the day. I hope this is some practical advice to help you get back on track. :wink2:

A lot of after surgery eating is determined by how tight you personally want your band. I have mine on the loose side, once I reach goal it will be even more loose. I have good restriction but I still eat strawberries, tomatoes, salad, every veggie, steak, chicken, pasta, rice, eggs and bacon, but I have to avoid bread and tortillas because they make me uncomfortable. But I feel like after I am at goal and I loosen the band some I will be able to eat bread as well, just not as much of it. I think people will not stay on a very restrictive diet forever, if you are limited to just a few items you will get bored and start on sliders. So I have my and on the loose side so that I have a large variety of food choices. It is a matter of how you decide to work your tool.

My baby just got picked up by his Girlfriend in HER CAR to go to a movie and dinner by themselves! Its his first real date! I think I am going to cry!

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I went to look for a wedding dress last year, it took forever to find something that didn't show half my boobs! Why do we have to see everyones boobs now? :wink2:

I use EAS carb advantEDGE shakes 110 cal 17g protein, and Unjury Chicken Soup flavor protein powder 90 cal. 21 g of protein.

I knew it!

You know if you are doing this for the right reason if you are doing it for yourself. If you were doing it so your husband would find you more attractive then I would question it. But if its for you, its the right reason. I was low BMI, (35) I would almost consider mine to be "cosmetic surgery" but it makes me feel better so I am happy with my decision. I had failed every diet plan on the planet. So yes you will have doubts about it working. It works if you do. Positive attitude is everything.

Oh I love the whole Jackie O feeling of this dress and veil.

JM-- Pretty dress!

Cocoa is normal!:wink2:

I think it is worth every dollar ($10,200 of them) and every minute (5 months of them). You get out of this what you put in it. If you try hard it works hard, if you try a little it works a little. (Medical conditions excluded from this statement) I would only consider cutting my gastric system in the case of medical necessity, such as 100 pounds or more overweight with co-morbidities such as heart disease, diabetes, etc. I only needed to lose 65 pounds so I consider my lap band surgery to be somewhat cosmetic. Really ask yourself if you are going to work with the band, if you are then get the surgery. If you are thinking I will just get the surgery and then everything will be handled, wait and do more research. :wink2:

Too bad that Lap Band talk doesn't have a "like this" button like facebook. But I like this poem, thanks for sharing.

I forgot to add that I only unfilled .3 of a cc so I went from 5.1 to 4.8 in a 10 cc band, you don't have to have a complete unfill to eat better. You could be just .2 or .5 away from being in the perfect spot, so you could find a Dr who would slowly unfill you at .25 a time until you were able to eat. Maybe that would help with the anxiety that you are going to regain weight. And don't forget, if this doesn't work, and you feel you are gaining weight, you can always put it back in. Your not talking about removing your band just taking out some saline. :frown:

I didn't feel like I have been banded long enough to answer this question but I am 3 pounds from 25 BMI so decided to give my input. I will start with my history. We don't eat out, we cook every meal and almost everything from scratch. We buy whole grain bread, premade semolina pasta, canned tomatoes, and tomato paste. This is our only concession to processed foods. I grow fresh veggies in the summer and buy them in the winter. But I eat too much. I have been hungry my whole life, I can eat a whole plate of food and go back for seconds. I never snacked, or grazed I ate 3 large meals of quality food a day. Now it is physically impossible for me to overeat. I am full for the first time in my life, in the past when someone said they were full I never really knew what they meant. This is exactly what I was looking for and expecting when I had the surgery. I knew that I ate the right things just too much of them. I couldn't be more pleased.

I got a fill and I was too tight, I couldn't eat more than 500 calories a day. I finally went for an unfill but I was scared of regain so I kept on with the 500 calories a day. I started gaining back, so my friends on here convinced me to start eating 1000 calories a day last Tuesday, I have lost 2 pounds in 4 days by eating quality foods at 1000 calories a day. Plus I am no longer suffering from cold skin and fatigue.

Bumping up the spreadsheet!

Scotty, I just thought of something, you were on TV and you didn't plug your BBQ! You could have said "I lost all this weight eating at Scotty D's BBQ you can too!" OK they might have edited that part....