Laylas grandma

Hi, I will be 5 months post op on the 14th and like you Im having some problems. I cant eat in the mornings. I do good getting my meds down before I go to work. I dont get lunch til about 1:30 or maybe even as late as 2:30 on some days. Sadly Ive been grazing on cheetos (thats a big no-no), to keep my stomach from hurting while trying to work. I would also like to know of some healthy snacks. Ive been stuck at the same weight for about 2 months. Im wondering if my ports too full. There is not much I can eat that I dont get the slime and then run to the bathroom. But I still catch myself eating too fast and taking too big of a bite and not chewing as good as I should. This causes me to still be hungry even though I have just eaten.Forty six years of bad habits are hard to break, so Im still trucking along hoping things will get better.

Ive been wondering if I am a little to tight also. I am pigging out on slider food now and Ive gained 5 pounds this month. I can not eat healthy proteins only meatloaf or slisbury steak and that is ony of i chew forever. I cant eat salads anymore either. I like you am living on cheetos. But is it possible to be too tight if you can eat a weight watchers Pasta dinner a bowl of Cereal and 8 vanilla wafers all in one hour? Im really starting to get depressed cause I feel im getting out of control again. I actually have an appointment nov.13 for another fill. i wanted to be good and tight before thanksgiving.

No, Elfiepoo she said she just got her first fill a couple of days ago..My question is how was wrenbird eating before that? When I had my first fill my eating was very restricted the first week also, but then it got back to normal. If you are still eating like that after about a week I'd say you are too tight which means your weight loss will stall. Hopefully you will gain some of that appetite back though. Good Luck.

My weight loss had stalled and my husband said youre not getting enough Protein. I went to the GNC store and the guy in there who is a nutritionist and personal trainer asked me all kinds of questions about my life and and my surgery and he recommended this stuff, I lost 10 pounds the first week and I love it,my husband and son also drink it now and they say it tastes like a wendys frosty. AN EASY WAY TO GET IN 76 GRAMS OF PROTEIN AMP Amplified Wheybolic Extreme 60 calories 280 fat 1g sugars 2g carbs 7g protein 60g you can add it to Water but I add the three scoops to 16oz of skim milk which is 16 more grams of protein. oh yeah, I always add two hand fulls of ice to the blender and sometimes I add 4oz of coffee for a jamoca shake if I need an energy kick. I never leave for work without it. I drink on it til lunch time and keep almonds, walnuts and raisins in a ziploc if I get hungry before my lunch at 2.

July 14th 261.1...day of surgery 19th 244.0 -17.1 26th 239.9 -4.1 Aug 2nd 238.6 -1.3 9th 240.6 +2.0 16th 240.8 +.2 23rd 232.4 -8.4 (this was week after first fill) 30th 231.0 -1.4 Sept 6th 229.8 -1.2 13th 229.0 -.8 20st 229.2 +.2 27th 229.2 stayed the same Oct 5th 219.0 -10.2 (this week started drinking Protein shakes with 69 grams of protein in them) so 42 pounds in 12 weeks that averages about 3.5 pounds per week :thumbdown:

Grilled Tilapia, brown rice, pinto Beans and sugar free banana cream pudding for dessert. Favorite meal post surgery is chopped barbque (not shredded) baked beans and cole slaw. Only on special days.

Ok Im not an expert girls but let me tell you this..I was banded July 14th lost about 25 pounds the first couple of weeks then stalled a pound here and a half a pound there. Even gained a couple ounces some weeks.While being depressed about it my husband kept saying you arent getting enough protein over and over he said it. I just thought he didnt know what he was talking about and I was gonna do this my way. then he started saying your doctor said the more protein you get the more you will lose. Soooo I went to the GNC store where I met this HOT little nutritionist/personal trainer. Funny how I listened to everything he said. Anyway I told him my story and he told me to try Amplified Wheybolic Extreme 60. If you mix it in the blender with ice it taste like a wendys frosty.No lie. Sometimes I add a little instant coffee for a jamoca. Anyway it has 60 grams of protein. I had it for breakfast everyday last week and lost 10 pounds without changing anythng else.I have more energy. I feel stronger and I was usually starving at 2pm when I eat lunch, now I have to make myself eat a little something. So PUSH IN MORE PROTEIN!!!!!!

Hey 4them, I havent talked to you in a while. Glad to see your belly button is all better. My incision is all better too. I had some problems with my first fill but other than that IM doing great. I'm glad you asked this question. I've been wondering myself. I havent had any ice cream since July 13th...:biggrin: I think Im gonna take leighamasons advice and have a really special sweet every Sunday. Oh wait today is Saturday isnt it? That means tomorrow is sweet day Sunday. Guess Im gonna run to the grocery store real quick. LOL Oh and congrats on the weight loss. You are a real trooper!

OMG now I know exactly how someone with bulemia feels..eat, throw up, eat, throw up. I have started carrying a red disposable solo cup around the house with me so I dont have to keep running to the bathroom. It reminds me of the spit cup my grandpa had many years ago when he dipped snuff. LOL Ive never had anything stuck for more than a couple of hours but I have a friend who had surgey 2 years ago and he got a pill stuck last week and couldnt eat for 3 days.Someone made him laugh and it passed. Just for future reference If I get stuck and am not able to take my BP meds..guess Ill make a reservation for the comedy cabana. :biggrin:

Ask if you can eat off of the kids menu they usually have softer food choices in smaller portions. Ill never forget about 4 weeks post op I wanted a mcdonalds cheeseburger so bad. I went through the drive through and tried to eat it while still in the car. Two bites and I was puking all in the carpet. I dont miss cheeseburgers anymore!! LOL

Could it be that maybe you are not eating enough? I find on days I force myself to eat a little more I lose a little more..Dont know why but it happens everytime.

It took about 10 days for my swelling to go down and for me to start feeling like myself. Im still bruised, seen doc friday he said some just take longer to heal from them.

I have premixed mine and taken it to work but it sure tastes better if I have it in a container that I can shake up real good before I drink it.

Go get you some fiber gummies, taste like gummie bears (walgreens $11.99)and chew two each morning. You will go like clock work. i never start the day without mine.

Wow thanks leighamason thats great advice for all of us..

Im so glad I read this post. I just got my first fill friday. It took 3 sticks two under xray to get it filled. He put in 3cc's for total blockage then pulled out 1 1/2 cc's to where I am now. Its so hard filling he didnt want to have to go back in again for a while. Well anyway this is my point I did not know (never read it) that restriction meant miserable. Oh my gosh I did not know that I would not be able to eat food (everything is coming up and I cant breathe when I eat). How long will this last? I sure hope this is gonna make the scales move down some more. Im starting to feel like a bulimic. Eat, trash can, eat, trash can. I want a cheeseburger!!!!!!!!!! Even if its just one bite. :confused:

well let me tell you this it also depends on what kind of work you do..my sugeon told me I could have surgery on friday and be back to work on monday. NOT!! I guess I should have told him I stand on my feet all 8 hours and I have to lift heavy things also. Which I got guys to lift things for me a few times but then I started feeling guilty for getting them to help me do my job, so id do it my self. My advice if you have a sit down job you can go back a little sooner, but if you have to stand take at least a week off.

Way to go amberk you are now in the club!! Woohoo

Im doing good..just have a problem with eating too fast and PBing. I have my appetite back now but its still not as bad as before surgery. I get my first fill aug 19th..hope that helps wth the weight loss. Ive weighed the same thing to the ounce for 2 weeks. Hows things going with you? Are you getting nervous?

jennay please let me tell you how another poster helped me..I went the first 6 days with nothing took milk of magnesia went that day and then went 5 more days with nothing..then someone posted to buy fiber select gummies..I got mine at walgreens. I chew 2 every morning and like clock work im right on time. I havent missed a day yet and I feel so much better. They taste kinda like gummy bears and are fruity flavored. I think I paid like 11.99 for 90 of them. Hope this helps you as much it did me..

LOL...I dont know about them girdles but I can tell you this I started high school wearing jeans as tight as a girdle and wore them every day til i graduated and my belly was bigger then than it was when I started...LOL I actually bought a girdle before surgery to wear afterwards because a lady in my supposrt group said it helped her stomach not to jiggle around so much til she healed. I bought a darn 3x and it was so tight every time id move or bend over it would roll down my big ol belly.. didnt wear it more than about 15 minutes..LOL

I was banded July 14th and went in for my one week check up to my surgeon saying you may have infection we will put you on antibiotics and see what happens I may have to take your band out. At my two week check up he said well it looks like its a hematoma (bruise). We'll schedule your first fill aug. 19th and see how it looks then. Well its been another week and 3 days and if you were to look at my incisions right now even though they look tons better you would think they look infected. They have red rings around them and now they are itching. To me it looks like they have a rash around them. So Ive been putting cortizone cream on them to stop them from itching. By the way all five of my incisions are between my breast and my belly button. So hang in there..it may take you as long as me to heal.

Does anybody have any post banding recipes they would like to share? Would like to see what everyones cooking..

ok more questions with all this Protein and not much Fiber are you all experiencing the constipation I am? One poster suggested fiber gummies I started them today.Hope they work cause me and milk of magnesia are starting to not like each other very much. LOL another question how far out do you have to be to start eating nuts? my doc said no nuts but i thought he meant ever, maybe i misunderstood.

Thanks for all of the info... Im thinking my PBing is coming from eating too fast and Im sure Im doing it too much cause my son said I should start eating dinner in the bathroom..hes tired of me spitting up the slime in the kitchen trash can.lol hes 26 I think he needs to find him his own place to live..JK LOL I have only thrown up food twice, once I ate a bite of ramen noodles and once I had one bite of grilled chicken they both came up before they got all the way down. Well this gives me alot to work on..tomorrow i start journaling..counting my calories and eating slower..