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I am right at 14 days post-op today. I have lost 16lbs, I do feel great. HOWEVER I have no restriction, that will not happen till May 15th. My question is " Do yall feel lite snacking in between meals is ok " ? Let me give you an example of what I am snacking on Light Mozz. cheese stick, sugar free Motts applesauce, low fat yogart or even Breakstones Low Fat single serving of Lite cottage cheese. Of course not all of these at the sametime and at times I dont even finish my snack because I get that satisfied feeling. So please bend my ear and lemme know what yall think. Thanks ! :scared2:

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I think you are doing great! My nut. says up to 3 Snacks a day is fine. I too, love snacking on lite cheese sticks, cottage cheese and lf yougurt. It's a good way to get in the 2 servings of Calcium my nut. says to have. Keep up the great work. Also- one warning. Your first fill may not cause restriction. It took me 3 fillls. Everyone is different. Best wishes!

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Your doctor must be of the 'no snack' camp like mine. Now that I have really good restriction, I'm not hungry in between meals so its not a problem. But, when I was still getting fills and trying to get to the right fill level, I did need at least one snack, sometimes two, almost every single day. I just did my best to ask myself everytime, is this real hunger or head hunger. I would also drink a lot of Water in between meals and sometimes that would take away the hunger. But, if after all that, I was still hungry, then I had a healthy snack. I would try to stick to Protein or fruit/vegies for these healthy Snacks.

When I would go in for fills, I was honest that I had to snack because I was too hungry between meals and my doctor always said that was fine. The GOAL was to get to the point where I didn't need to snack, but the fact that I still needed to was evidence that I needed more fill. So, don't feel bad about snacking. Be conscious of it, but you should not feel like you have to be starving and hungry all the time until you get to the right fill level.

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Thank you both very much !

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