I'm too tight

[JosShavaughn 0]

I'm too tight and I know I am. Is it possible to go until April 5 on Protein shakes and what goes down here and there? Like today I threw up two small pieces of pizza, but kept down an entire tostada. But last night I didn't even get down ONE small chicken strip.

Orrrr, is this just normal restriction?

[Humming Bird 275]

Please don't take this the wrong way, but it sounds like you are eating all the wrong stuff. pizza, breaded chicken, and tostadas would do the same thing to me. Now that you threw up you should do liquids for a day and then work your way slowly to more solid stuff. I keep my band pretty tight, so the things I eat may differ from others. Usually the most solid stuff I eat is fish or chili. Pizza and tostadas fall into the bread group for me and I just can not eat them during this weightloss phase. I eat things like yogurt, cottage cheese .......... You can not figure out if you are too tight eating that kind of stuff. after you do liquids for a day or so, then mushies, see if you can eat some chicken or tuna salad. If you can eat 1/2 cup, then you are not too tight.

Edited March 15, 2010 by Humming Bird

[kkarryall 0]

I personally cannot eat pizza at all...or any bread-like items. What about like 4 oz of fish, tuna salad, or chili? Can you eat that? Sometimes chicken can be difficult for bandsters....

[2911plans 16]

Please don't take this the wrong way, but it sounds like you are eating all the wrong stuff. pizza, breaded chicken, and tostadas would do the same thing to me. Now that you threw up you should do liquids for a day and then work your way slowly to more solid stuff. I keep my band pretty tight, so the things I eat may differ from others. Usually the most solid stuff I eat is fish or chili. pizza and tostadas fall into the bread group for me and I just can not eat them during this weightloss phase. I eat things like yogurt, cottage cheese .......... You can not figure out if you are too tight eating that kind of stuff. after you do liquids for a day or so, then mushies, see if you can eat some chicken or tuna salad. If you can eat 1/2 cup, then you are not too tight.

Hummingbird, I am so thankful for this post. I had a fill a week ago and I am now at restriction after 10 months. I thought I was too tight but I didn't want to get an unfill because the weight was finally coming off. The problem was I was throwing up whenever I tried to eat. I visited this thread and learned I was eating the wrong food. I took your advice and changed what I was "trying" to eat.

I had chili for lunch and kept it down. I had fish for dinner and it stayed down. This is the first day out of 8 that I haven't thrown up.

What do you eat in a typical day? Are you living off of chili, fish and tuna salad? Do you ever get fruits and veggies in?

[Humming Bird 275]

I ate chilli for months ! LOL ..... it was the most solid thing I could eat. I'm sure I was a tiny bit too tight.

I am just now able to eat a little bit of chicken.

Some of the things I eat without slime, Pb, or throw up:

*Broc/ cheese Soup. I use chedar cheese Soup and add

cut up frozen broc. (really any kind of soup that does

not have noodles or rice)

* Yogurt (not greek/yucky)

*oatmeal / cream of wheat

* Fish, scallops, crab, tuna

* Cheese

*cottage cheese

*any veggie that is well cooked

* fruit cups

* sherbert (treat)

*Many Protein shakes

*Skinny Lattes from starbucks :tt1:

*

hmmmmm...... I know I eat more than that list, but nothing more comes to mind right now

A typical day for me:

coffee

Protein shake on the way to work

Sometimes a yogurt (snack)

Soup from the Deli ( or chilli from Wendy's)

Fish or soup for dinner

Another day might be:

coffee

Protein Shake

cottage cheese & fruit cup for lunch

Chilli for dinner

Sherbert for snack sometimes

Boring, I know, but it works for me

Edited March 27, 2010 by Humming Bird

[2911plans 16]

Thank you for the list of foods. I am a seafood lover. I can eat fish seven days a week and not get bored. Your list does provide a variety of foods that I am willing to try.

I was getting very weak and dehydrated. I am too weak to exercise right now. I can't wait until I feel better.

[discomom63 0]

In my opinion, you sound too tight. I just went through the same thing that you did. One day, I could maybe eat a little of something, the next day I couldn't. I went on like this for 6 weeks and finally decided that something wasn't right. I went to the doctor and he said instead of doing this ( he mimicked typing, he said you should have been doing this, he mimicked using the phone) don't get me wrong. I love this site and use it often, but I think a lot of times we get advice that is wrong for us. From now on I will call my doctor before I get on here. Good luck!

[Chica1 0]

Hummingbird,

Thank you thank you Thank you!

I've been having problems since last year with being too tight but prior to that i wasn't tight enough and could eat a whole hamburger. Dr Jay took care of that but my thought process still wanted a whole hamburger. i could not accept the fact that i should have been eating small portions but because i had no resistriction on my fills i did not learn how to. of course i kept telling the doctor this and finally 4 months later he gave me something i could finally feel. anyway, i've been burping, sliming and throwing up. i don't do this very often any more but every once in a while is will. i am always on the go and eat too fast. wrong thing to do. so anyway, i appreciate your menue. it's what i used to eat before i exhaustedly kept trying to eat pizza, hamburgers, tostadas, etc. i knew i was doing it wrong but like i said before, my thought process was slow to accept i could not eat like that anymore.

i am going back to that menue and lose even more weight. since this tightness i have lost an additional 22 pounds? just think how much more i can lose by adjusting my menues? and doing just a teeny weeny bit of more walking, moving, hand weight lifting etc. i'm am now excited and geared up again. i fell off the wagon last year but have a renewed energy to hop on top of things.

--2911 plans; it was your post i first read and thank you for posting too! --Jossavaugh, you might be a good restriction but i'd advise no tostadas and no pizza (BrEaD!!!) when chicken is too tough and/or too dry it can get stuck. what i tend to do every now and then but doing more often is cut it really small and have sauce with it such as tomatoe sauce, spagetti sauce etc to get it moist OR! lay off of it for a while and eat only fish but don't over cook because it too can become dry and tough and hard to go down. :Dancing_biggrin: