eating after banding

flower · June 1, 2005

After the band are people dieting or do you just eat regular foods just less of them I'm so confused

the best me · June 1, 2005

It depends.

Don't you love that answer? For me, I have to get my mind in Diet Mode to lose the weight. Concentrate, pay attention to my food choices, avoid impulisve eating, that type of thing. The band keeps me from eating the quantities of food I used to, which helps tremendously. Also, when I'm full from a proper bandster meal, I am LOTS less likely to go back for more of anything else. It helps me avoid after dinner eating (sorry DeLarla).

I hear others that say, "oh yeah, I just eat whatever, just less of it and I have lost blah blah many pounds..." whatever. Not that easy for me!

So, it depends.

Alexandra · June 1, 2005

Kathy's right, Flower, it totally depends on what makes you more comfortable. I was DONE with dieting years ago, frankly, and really have internalized the "making good choices" mantra. I could never get any control over quantity, though, and that was my demon.

Post-banding I have never said or thought for one second that I'm on a "diet." Being banded has very much changed my approach to food, but 90% of the change is about quantity. The other 10% is about texture. It hasn't changed the way I think about calories and nutrients, and nothing is off-limits as long as I understand what I'm putting in my mouth is my choice to make.