Food: Seeking Info On Food Do's & Don'ts After The Band

[ladiekappa 1]

Hello everyone i know everyone is different i just wondered what has been your experiences with food after the band

[Parvathi 2]

My best advice would be follow your doctor's instructions to the letter and listen to your band. It can be a very fickle tool. There have been times when I could eat something one day and then the next, I could not (or vice versa) .. and you just have to kinda go with it.

If you don't have a copy of The Lap-Band Solution by Paul O'Brien MD, I'd suggest getting one. Its a great guide to help new brandsters and old ones who fell off the wagon like me lol.

[Lita 0]

yeah as a pre bandster I would love to clear up my confusion on what foods are ok and which aren't - the doctor scared me alittle by stating almost every food as inedible post op. I can c that he was mistaken in that just on this website so many people have different experiences. I guess i will just have to wait and c..

[rdbiles@sbcglob 0]

I can eat most everything I did before the band. Some foods I just can't get down now: rice, french fries, rigatoni, spaghetti, meatballs, tomatoes, peas, biscuits, breaded fish or chicken. If I have to have one of these foods, I take one bite and I'm done, because anything more would bring it back up. With hamburgers, homeade or eaten out, I eat the inside only or sometimes one of the Buns. I love Peanut Butter and jelly, before two slices of bread, now one piece of toast with my pb/jelly and this is only occassional. I can no longer drink while I eat. At the beginning it was hard to not be able to drink my iced tea during a meal. Once I had good restriction, things changed...now if I were to try and drink, I couldn't eat.

[TulipStar 2]

Wow, if I knew then what I know now.

My band is really finicky...you can never tell what it might be. Sometimes if a Soup is too creamy...it comes back up. Even stranger is that whipped cream is a problem for me. No eggs whatsoever...and I used to eat eggs every day.

I think the biggest tip is that I have to eat really really slow. Take time in between bites and really listen to my body. Sometimes this gets me in troublem bc if I am out to dinner with someone who doesn't know about my lb, they will ask me "what are you thinking right now" and I can't tell them "I am wondering if this is going to go down or back up..."

[ladiekappa 1]

thanks ladies for sharing, i often wonder which of my fav's am i going to have to give up Buffalo Wings, from Humpberdink's and hot sauce on just about everything oh well i guess that's what got me into this mess in the first place.

liquid diet may 1st!

[80s_chick 2]

I am 6 days post op and on a totally liquid diet. I will not lie to you: I'm freaking starving. If I constantly eat sugar-free Jello and broth and supplement that with three Slim Fast drinks a day, it helps...but I have been dreaming of pizza. Literally dreaming of pizza. I would love even one bite of mashed potatoes or something, but my doctor says no. He says the progression is necessary to prevent slippage. So seven more days until a bite of mashed potatoes or some pintos and cheese at Taco Bell. (I'll prolly hurl after one bite...LOL)

[Jachut 487]

I can eat everything pretty much, though foods like McDonalds and pizza are highly likely to at least cause discomfort, and often PBing, so I really dont eat them anymore, at all. I dont miss them, same as you dont miss seafood when you've had food poisoning and associate it ever after with horrendous puking.

I eat a normal diet, Protein, carbs, plenty of fruit and veg and lowish fat.

[ladiekappa 1]

Thanks for sharing iam at the stage of trying to eat all i may not be able to eat later and not gaining any more weght! it is encouraging to hear i may be able to eat everything even if it is one bite...one bite that is so hard to believe i have never take just one bite LOL:scared2:

[Lita 0]

Hi ladies

Look at the moment 4 days post op i cannot imagine never again being able to eat rice, spaghetti, Pasta, this that and the rest. I just want to eat everything but less of it.........Is this too optimistic - I would love to hear from anyone who has been able to do this???? Theoretically it doesn't make sense that you cant eat rice??? It is very small and should go down easily............what's up with that??? Is it just that we are eating too quickly............ HELP