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My Dr. says no food 4 hours before but liquids are ok

I'm glad you to go meet Penni, isint she just the sweetest? And she is always laughing, form onths before I met her in person her posts would aslways have a LOL at the end ( Laughing out loud) Well in real life she does do that, she laughs alot, great person she is with a very very good heart!

This is exactly the reason I created this challenge. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=2541 Yoo many of us are obsessed with the scaleand what it says, since I started this challenge back in July of last year, I have learned to not let thesclae dictate my success. There are so many other possitive things that have happened to me in the last year since having my band other then losing the lbs. It is amazing how successful I have beeen and only weighing once a week,It is so stress free, I love it! There have been times where I did not lose for weeks, but never got discouraged becasue my sizes were going down, Maybe you should consider joining the weekly scale challenge with us. It does work!

Eventually the soft food syndrome will catch up with you and your weight loss will slow down, since soft foods are higher in calories and travel through the band much quicker cthen solids you will eventaully find yourself hungrier quicekr as time goes on. In my opinion if you can not eat solids, then you are too tight, the band was designed for solid food intake not soft foor intake , according to the Inamed handbook I got, it clearly states " your meals should be high in protein and vitamins. Solid food is more important then liquid food or soft food" . I do not mean to discourage you but to enlighten you with the facts. Not being able to eat solids is not healthy and not reccomended for us bandsters. Try starting off slow with a food like tuna fish or some dark meat chicken . Have you tried eating foods more solid then pudding? If so what happens?

I have never measured my portions, I eat protein first then veggies but not all of the time I'd say 80% of the time.. I eat until I get the signal, for me it is an ice cream headache... so I must be doing something right in a little shy of 14 months post op I'm 8 lbs from goal.

3 days post op, all that you are feeling is normal ...

I was never told sugar free during the liquid phase.

Congratulations, I am happyto hear you had a good experience and now are banded. Best of Luck to you

I agree it is odd to take out her band so soon after surgery, many have this problem and it is usually caused from swelling from surgery. .., once the swelling goes down all should be normal. Who is your Dr.?

Are you sure it is thrush? The reason I ask is because when I was on the liquid phase post op, I got a horrible looking white film on my tounge from just liquids. I went to my PCP thinking it was thrush and it was not. All the liquids made me have a horrible taste in my mouth aswell as the film on my tounge.

With a barium swallow in regards to erosion the barium will flow over the band and not through it is what I was told by my Dr.

You sure will! Being scared and nervous is normal, you wouldnt be human if you werre not experiencing these emotions. Three months from now you will be grateful for your band

Biting my fingernails would give me worms and eating raw spaghetti would give me worms were two of my mothers favortie things to tell me. Oh and If I looked crossed eyed for too long my eyes would stay like that

In my opinion, him seeing your progress is the best thing to make him change his mind and want to take a step to a healthier person. I have found the more you nag or the more you try to tell someone what to do, the more they rebel. Many of my friends were skeptical, 2 of them have been banded since me after seeing my progress. My husband is 6'1 200 lbs at best, he does no exercise and eats whatever he wants & smokes. I was on his case for the last 6 months about eating healthier and stop smoking and exercise with me, he never did, now I just go about my business and eat healthy, I walk in theevenings, since I have gotten off his back and he sees me moving in the right direction to a healthier life he has decided to join me and walk with me and eat healthier and he has really cut back on his smoking. I have elearned I need to worry about me and my health and not my husbands, he knows I love him very much but he has to be the one who wants to change becasue if he is doing it for me, it will not last. He has to want to do it for him!

I enjoy the Turkey Jerky , I get a big bag from Costco. It doesnt seem to be as salty as the beef jerky. But I will eat beef jerkey also. Its a great source or protein, but you got to chew like mad.

There is usually air in your tubing and many experienced band doctors will extract all of the air before your first fill. It is only needed the one time at your first fill, you will know it when the extract the air from the tubing too, it is an awful pressure type pain like an elephant on your chest as he is doing it. If your Dr. does not do this, this can explain for what you think is a loss of Fluid. If there is air, and then they fill it will be a false read when you pull out all the fluid the next fill and so on. My Dr. pulls out the air and the threee fils I had were righht on the numbers when he removed it. I agree with Delarla about the flouro thing.. Fluoro is good for peace of mind and to see your band and port is still in place and your pouch is not stretched.

Trust me if any of those people who are on WW or Atkins had the opportunity to havethe band , I am sure most of them would do it, so not let them fool you. When you are at goal and they are still struggling to lose or struggling to maintain what they lost, I'm usre you will be more then happy to talk aboutthe band with them again and Iam sure their attitude will have changed some

Carbs crave carbs,so the more carbs you eat the nore you want and the same applies for sugar. Try starting your day with strictly protein and see if you notice a diference in your hunger and carveings throughout the day. It works great for me, but if I start my day with any kind of carbs in the morning I am carving carbs all day long and feel like I am starving.

Love My Band! Would do it again in a heartbeat! Firstt ime in my life I feel I will never re-gain the weight I have lost. I finally have control.

If it were me and I was 2 days post op I would not put anything otherthen clear liquids in my body...You do not want to jeopardize anything so soon after surgery. This is just my opinion

I'm like Greg with a crazy shchedule My work scheudle is different then most, I am up at 3:50 am and at work by 5:00am so when I eat breakfast it is usually around 9:00 am where I have been up for 5 + hours and I got to bed at 7:30 and I do not eat any food in the evening past 5:00 pm so we are talking 16 hours between dinner and breakfast.

Congratulations to both of you Jim & Celeste Great News, glad to hear you are both home and recovering nicely

Sounds like my husband, looks like we are in the same boat!

Throwin up is NOT good for the band, an occassional vomit is expected. If you are throwing up more then once a week you are at higher risk of slippage is what I was told by my Dr. If you are thrwoing up more then once a week from a PB then it is possible your band is too tight or you are not chewing your food enough or taking to big of a bite. Try to avoid PBing or vomiting, if it is vomiting from an illness , they have suppositories to help with that but if it is vomiting from food getting stuck ( PB) , that is not a good thing for your band. I have been banded 13 months and have PBed 5 times and had the flu oncewhere I vomited. So far my band is fine and no slippage. It will not slip off, it will slip down and when it does , one of the sypmptoms of it is not being able to keep any liquids or solids down without vomiting. SOme have had slippage with out this symptom. When you go for your fills, if your doctor uses flouro, he can tel if your band has slipped.

That could take any pain away you are having