Why yogurt????

[JennyBee 340]

These band sure have a mind of there own!!!!

[Laurajean030 12]

I have the same problem with yogurt, especially greek yogurt. When I was first banded I ate it and didn't have any trouble but now that I have restriction it gets stuck. Its strange because I can eat most things as long as I'm careful and it's later in the day but not yogurt! Bums me out cause I love it!

[Mollyb67 11]

I have the same issue! I add about a 1/4 cup of granola or berries.

[Baba Wawa 543]

Hi leaveme....that's too crazy! I guess

The Cereal aids the yogurt since its heavier?

I think it just breaks up the dense consistency. Right now, I'm not supposed to eat fiberous foods, but can't eat the yogurt without the kashi, so I just do it anyway. I get a lot of my Calcium from the yogurt, at my age that's important, lol. I find that if I try to eat 1/2 cup of kashi with milk, it's problematic as well. A year ago, plain yogurt or the cereal alone was no problem. Then my band had 3.5 cc, now 0 cc. Go figure!

[Frederic 500]

Speaking as a purely amateur chemist with a zany theory. I would suspect the issue with yogurt is how it's consistency is affected by your stomach's unique digestive bath. Even though pudding is the same consistency as yogurt outside your body it's Protein chains are much different pudding liquifies almost instantly in your stomach where as yogurt stays thick longer if you have weaker stomach acid that thicker yogurt might as well be a lump of glue that not only resists passing the band but also stops the natural exchange of fluids through the band. Adding kashi or blending the yogurt keeps the yogurt from lumping together so it breaks down more easily for some but possibly still not enough for everyone.

Like I said pure hypothesis.

[JennyBee 340]

Fred, that makes total sense.....I think your hypothesis just may be a fact!!!