Which Food Plan After Lapband?

[michelleintheoc 0]

Hi All,

I am having my surgery on Wed. 12/9/09. And I have been doing Jenny Craig for the past month. I've only lost about 4 lbs., but hey, I could have easily gained 15 in the past month, so I'll take it!

Anyway, I am just wondering what food plan, if any, people are doing after their 14 days of liquids after surgery? I feel I need a plan to keep me on track. I tend to eat too much when left to my own devices. I'm wondering if anyone is doing WW or jenny craig, etc. Any input or recommendations would be great! Thank you very much!

Michelle

[JoJo1 0]

1/2 to 1 1/2 cups of food. That is pretty much it. I only eat Protein and green vegetables. If you feel you need it, you can add a serving of fruit or whole grains with your protein. Bandsters have the most problem with protein, so you will do best if you concentrate on that.

Snacking is a no no but if you are truely hungry you can have a small 1oz serving of protein.

[Astrasmom 1]

Hi All,

I am having my surgery on Wed. 12/9/09. And I have been doing Jenny Craig for the past month. I've only lost about 4 lbs., but hey, I could have easily gained 15 in the past month, so I'll take it!

Anyway, I am just wondering what food plan, if any, people are doing after their 14 days of liquids after surgery? I feel I need a plan to keep me on track. I tend to eat too much when left to my own devices. I'm wondering if anyone is doing WW or jenny craig, etc. Any input or recommendations would be great! Thank you very much!

Michelle

I am allowed 4-5 oz of food at every meal and 2 Protein shakes. I eat alot of fish and chicken, all natural Peanut Butter (not alot because of the calories), Fat Free ricotta cheese, oatmeal, eggs, yogurt,be sure you pick foods that are higher in Protein. It will help you through what they call "Bandsters Hell" I was on of the lucky ones that didn't go through it because I eat the higher protein and it kept me full. Banana's are also good.

[ElfiePoo 109]

I eat 6 small meals per day...one about every 3 hours. For 1 of the meals I eat normally, just not over 1 cup of food total and it's mostly Protein and vegies and only about a teaspoon (dinnerwear not measuring spoon) of carbs. At some point I may do 3 food meals but the other 3 'in between' meals will always be Protein shakes just to keep the blood sugar level.

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[Jachut 487]

Portion Control only. For me, part of recovering from being overweight was giving up dieting and the dieting mentality forever.

I'd had success with this in the past (but its very hard to ditch a lifetime of dieting habits) but I still ate too much to lose significant weight.

To me, no food is good or bad. I dont believe in beating yourself up because you ate white bread and i dont believe in fooling yourself that becuase you get 100 grams of Protein in your day you can forget about the other crap that comes in packaged food like Protein shakes and lean cuisines. I believe you should eat white bread if you want to and you should drink Protein Shakes if you want to, or you can do BOTH but neither makes for a good or bad diet overall. Moderation, common sense and proper portion control are what's important.

Worked for me anyway, along with lots of tough exercise.

[michelleintheoc 0]

Thanks girls. I appreciate the input.