Started eating real food again today!

[princess070 0]

Hi everyone,

I'm so happy I started eating real food again today, well actually yesterday! I cheated by 1 day. yesterday I had some scrambled eggs, and mashed potatoes. Today I made homemade chili! I ate about 1 cup with some cheese and sour cream.

I have a question though....what is slimming? I have heard alot about this, when you eat too much or almost get something stuck. what exactly does it feel like? just want to be prepared. I have not had any problems yet, but did have some gruggling today. thanks for any feed back :thumbup:

[Jodi_620 37]

As you may know, PB'ing is when something gets stuck at the entrance of the pouch and you have pain or the food comes back up (sometimes you burp it up).

Sliming is when something gets stuck at the band (too big to pass from the pouch through the band). It gets lodged and your body creates mucus to try and dislodge it. The mucus can't go down so it starts backing up your esophagus. You get this gaggy feeling and you keep feeling like you need to swallow hard to try and get it to go down but it won't go down If the food is really stuck bad the "slime" will eventually come up into your mouth, you can't swallow it because it won't go down so you have to keep spitting. I slime a little after a fill but it is basically just the gaggy feeling with no mucus in the mouth. The worst sliming I ever did was on a pill that was too big and on a chunk of dried apricot.

[princess070 0]

Thanks Jodi! this is good to know!

Congrat's on your weight lose so far! :wink_smile: