dawnslapband806

Hi everyone! I am new here. I've been banded since August 4th, 2006. I'm down 38 pounds since then, and I am thrilled! With school in full swing, I need to find some fast breakfast ideas, that are healthy, filling and of course yummy! I might get some unflavored protien powder and mix it in the light apple juice bottles I have, and then I will have something tasty and full of protien. I KNOW there has to be other ideas out there!!! I am not real food savy, and in the morning, I am more worried about getthing the kids ready and out the door, to think about making myself something. I usually head out for the morning after the kids are gone, so I need to be able to grab something. Thanks for any ideas ahead of time! I'm anxious to be an active part of this community! Dawn

some bands hold 4 cc's and the VG Band is much bigger and holds 10cc's. I got 4 cc's put in at my first fill. When was your first fill? D

Hi KM! Well, I can't really give you any REAL details. I dont relaly measure my foods. I just eat and only eat until I am full. I usually only have a bottle of tropicana light apple juice for breakfast. SOme days I have a bowl of Kashi Krunch cereal and some skim milk... I have been eating a lot of fish... Broiled or baked in butter and with crumbs... however it is made at the resturant!! I have a veggie too, and water. For dinner, I have been on a tuna salad kick. I get my tuna in those little pouches, from Starkist (??) I add some miracle whip light, and eat it on ritz.. I usually eat the entire pouch and about 20 ritz?? I am not really measuring or counting anything. I know I need my protien, and I try to get that (my doc said between 30 and 50 g a day), I drink TONS of water, and well, I just eat a lot less food. I dont notice much restriction, really, I was banded um, 2 weeks ago; 3.4cc in a VG band. If I want something sweet, I have it. I dont have 2 or 3 or 4 of them, I have one. I even had a chocolate shake and loved every bit of it! I just have cut my eating WAY back...even tho I want to eat more, I just dont. I did this to loose weight and I am fighting the desire to eat like I did. I have felt things get stuck lately. If I do not chew things enough or eat too fast, I feel it stuck right at the base of my throat. I DONT like it, so I DONT want to feel that way. That has been a good detrent, that is certain! I wish I could be more specific. I just eat, not a lot, and keep my body burning. It oddly seems that if I eat the foods I used to eat, off and on, my body tends to loose. If I just eat small amounts of Bandlife food I dont loose as much. I think it has to do with that starvation mode people talk about. My body is happy to be eating that stuff agian!!! hahahaha Good luck, and lets keep in touch... since we are only days away from our bandiversary!! Dawn