Fighting your food! Getting tired of it?

[cheryl2586 3,053]

I don't get frustrated with food because there are so many things you can choose from. Usually people who are frustrated with food are the ones who eat the same thing over and over again. I don't think I have the same meal twice in three weeks. You have to find new recipes and try them. Things you might not have ever thought of. Go on a vegan website and look at the recipes there. Even if I eat the same veggies two days in a row I cook them differently. You have to make food interesting. I surely don't want to eat the same thing day in and day out by any means. I don't fight with my band I have learned to embrace feeling hungry since my whole adult life I never was hungry until the last four years. If I have a Protein shake I make it different each time and never the same. I may eat black Beans one day and salmon the next never having the same thing in a week. You can enjoy food but in a different way. Time to learn some new recipes.

[donna450 130]

I have found that I actually love food more now... Now that we have to chew it so much, we extract all the flavor out of it & get to enjoy its taste.

I had a taco salad today for lunch & I swear, it was AMAZING.

I do find that I get bored with food but then I go in search of new recipes. I find that I am trying at least one new recipe a week, sometimes even more. I went through a six month stint where I hated chicken. Thank God I'm past that! LOL

I find that there are receipes that go down so smooth that I forget I have a band. I try to buy chicken tenderloins and boneless thighs and I use my crockpot alot. I have to find some not too fattening sauces to cook chicken in and a sauce to go over fish. Taco salad I made last week was amazing too. It was scrumptious. I get alot of receioes fromm allreceipes, food network and alot from Facebook under the name Karen who sells Sinny Fiber products. My next favorite dish besides the taco salad is bbq chicken thighs of course in crockpot. It turns out tasty and oh so tender. Is there a forum for just receipes here? Maybe we can put receipes up there that we've tried and got good results from. I'm going to check now. Later banders.

[NewMeDebbie 196]

when will we get to the place where not getting to eat a warm meal doesn't bother us any longer...lol??

The microwave is my best friend! LOL

It might be just me and maybe I overheat my food but microwaved foods seem too dry and won't go down for me... I have to be very careful with anything I've put in the microwave

[NewMeDebbie 196]

I don't get frustrated with food because there are so many things you can choose from. Usually people who are frustrated with food are the ones who eat the same thing over and over again. I don't think I have the same meal twice in three weeks. You have to find new recipes and try them. Things you might not have ever thought of. Go on a vegan website and look at the recipes there. Even if I eat the same veggies two days in a row I cook them differently. You have to make food interesting. I surely don't want to eat the same thing day in and day out by any means. I don't fight with my band I have learned to embrace feeling hungry since my whole adult life I never was hungry until the last four years. If I have a Protein shake I make it different each time and never the same. I may eat black Beans one day and salmon the next never having the same thing in a week. You can enjoy food but in a different way. Time to learn some new recipes.

That could be part of my problem. I'm not much of a cook and I have a skinny fiance who doesn't need to diet so cooking at night something where we both can eat without either of us being put out is what I am struggling with... Luckily he likes fish and chicken but he also loves all dishes with Pasta so I am cooking things like spaghetti and only eating the sauce with some veggies. But at my support group last night I was reminded that I am still new at this and it will come with time. I will continue to try to learn new ways to prepare our meals... a forum feed for recipes here is a great idea for us newbies!!

[pink dahlia 2,513]

I always think the 5% negitive of being banded is nothing compared to the 95 % positive of being banded. Yes, it takes a little work to cut my food small, eat slow, chew carefully etc........... but oh, the payoff is soooooo worth it !!!!!!

[Puppypaws57 137]

Terry...I am going thru the same. Only I have to take about 33 pills a day. They're divided out four x a day. I feel in my throat they get stuck. I feel like a heartburn feeling and get god awful pressure in my chest and then a powerful unrelenting headache. Yesterday I ate about 8 took my pills about 10 and it finally went away almost 1 pm. Time to take my 1:00 pills but didn't take them until 4 so I would have a slight repreive. But I had a Protein smoothy for lunch about 1:00 after "the feeling" went away and I had a hard time getting that down. And I also get chronic headaches on a normal basis and have to take those prn. They go down okay but still feel a little pressure when taking one pill. I see my band dr next week and have outlined this for him. These are pills I must take to keep my bipolar and headaches and OTC's for band and diabetes in check. Just venting. Thx for listening.

Also fogot to mention that since my first fill ofc3 cc I can only eat 2-3 bites then it comes up. But usually I can then eat the rest of my food. This happens at almost every meal. I am not as excited with this fill as I was before it. And I take a few weight gaining pills for my bipolar and even with the fill I am losing very slowly...almost too slow. I try to watch what I eat but when I get really hungry I eat whatever will go down the easiest. Bad choice? And my hair is falling out. It was thin bc of hypothyroidism but now have a few balding spots. I see my endocrinologist today so maybe get my thyroid in check and maybe with eating more Protein my hair will start coming back. There's alot more but I'll leave it like this. Thx

I am bipolar too. I had my Dr. switch as many as he could to liquids. Helps a lot since some of those pills are huge!