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Amy,

I have asked my Dietician for something like your book and since lap bands are so very new to my area we have nothing. Our support groups are mostly 98% gastric by pass people. I asked in a support group once if we could have an interactive web site to add recipes for each other. But, for now that's beyond what their web people can do.

So if I invent something tasty I'll send it along to you. Please keep collecting and let us know when and how we can get a copy. I promise to send a copy to our weight management team and maybe it'll be something they tell all their patients to get. GOOOOO You!!

HI Dianna,

Although I am only 3 weeks post op and things will change I'm sure. Be prepared to still get so hungry you'll want to eat like there's no tomorrow. After the first week (when I wasn't hungry and still on a soft or liquid diet) I was sooooo hungry sometimes I wanted to eat and eat and eat. I could still eat 2 cans of campbells chicken noodle Soup. I pureed an entire big bag of broccoli and poured it in 2 C. of Lipton cream of chicken Cup A Soup and ate that!! A WHOLE bag of broccoli!!

After 2 weeks I slowly chewed and chewed and chewed a spicy chicken burrito from taco bell.

With the program my surgical team puts us on I already made some life changing eating habits that are now just a fact of normal life I had lost 30 lbs by surgery day. And 10 pounds the week after my surgery.

But the hunger to eat a horse is still here! As I'm writting this now I want to go out and scramble 6 eggs. But my logical side which is NOT GROWLING says ok 2 eggs and a choc. Protein Shake. You WILL get the hang of eating with the band, But that tame your hunger I guess will come with time.

I heard somewhere skinny people don't think of food ALL the time. Maybe in ten years or so I'll get food off my mind.LOL :-)

Good Luck with your surgery. And remember to eat very little in the next 11 days so your liver gets a little smaller.

You'll do great!!!

I know hospitals over charge insurance company's but I just got my bill today for the hospital charges. They billed Blue cross $43,000.00 WOW and that's not including charges for the DR.s. Maybe your state has insurance you could buy cheap. PA does! Good Luck on your journey:-)