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I have had the lapband for one week and I lost 15 Pounds the problem is today I realized I can eat. I ate a fish sandwich with bread from BK with no problem:help:

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It's o.k.....just remember that just because you can don't mean you should!! Be careful with the calorie intake from now until your fills start working. Try to eat bandster style....small portions, chew well, very little or no breads. Go on a Weight Watcher type diet, or something like that to make sure you don't gain what you've already lost! Hang tough.....won't be long and you won't be able to eat as much, just have to tough it out till then! Good luck!

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So after the adjustment I shouldn't be able to eat as much, but I was under the impression that my stomach was going to be only about 15cc

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Some people heal up very quickly and lose their swelling and can eat quite early.

the thing is you never quite know what's going on in there. The fact that you CAN eat doesnt mean that your stomach doesnt still need mushies and liquids to avoid all work and churning it would have to do to digest solid food. All it means is that you dont have restriction yet.

When you dont have the restriction, pretty much anything will go down pretty much normally. It takes fills to get to good restriction, where you have to eat slowly, cant eat much and cant always eat everything.

Please follow your surgeon's advice about when to move onto solids! If you're inventive and creative, liquids and mushies CAN be satisfying, there's no need to live on Protein shakes and juice.

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What size band do yo have? I also got to thinking that it's very surprising to me that you were released or chose to eat a sandwich so soon after surgery. We were told that during the first few weeks your stitches have to heal inside your tummy. If you eat lots of solid foods your stomach has to churn to digest and that isn't good for the lap-band itselfs healing process. Even after a week of liquids we were told an entire week of soft foods before even attempting solid foods. Most surgeons have different advice....mine was very relaxed with things....some people on here have to have liquids for up to 3 or 4 weeks after surgery?!?!?! My band is a 4cc....which now has 2.25 cc in it.

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I say try and follow the plan from day...1 it will make things so much easier in the long run...I ate too soon and my band did stretch a bit...so I dont have nearly the same amount of restriction I would have if I had stuck to the program....but I am still loosing weight...albeit slowly so I havent mucked things up entirely...but a big part of this process is retraining your mind! and your internal conversations with yourself...start now...and you wont regret it later.

:) becky

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