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Perhaps you got here by eating junk food, perhaps I did, perhaps some out there did, but not "us all." No way. I know several bandsters and bandster wannabes who aren't at all fond of junk food, but are still obese - because they eat too much "healthy" food, are too sedintary for their caloric intake, etc. People cannot be afraid of their cravings. IMO, it's not a good practice to tell someone it's going to hurt their family to buy or eat a candy bar. All that's going to do is infect the guilt they will already feel and deepen all the bad emotiona stuff that's going to happen when they finally do something bad (and chances are, that's gonna happen). When cravings go unfulfilled, undesired behaviors such as binging are WAY more likely to occur. The majority of us can probably relate to this. I'd rather someone eat 1, 2, 3, hell 5 or 6 snack sized Snickers, because they have a craving and this will satiate the craving, than not have them because they're afraid of failing or they've been told it's going to hurt their family... deny the craving, it festers and builds and they end up doing a full blown binge or obsessing to the point that a few will no longer offset the desire. A bandster is going to be hurt (literally and figuratively) a hell of a lot more by binging than by having the blasted Snickers.

How is buying Snickers hurting her family? Or her? Are we trying to incite panic? Unless you can't afford a Snickers and are doing bad to your household income with the purchase, buying a bag is not going to hurt you. Or your family, or your neighbors, or anyone else. EATING a Snickers isn't going to hurt you, or we'd have an awful lot of people laying in broken piles around vending machines. Eating 3,000 Snickers is gonna hurt you. Let's hope you didn't buy that many.

COMPLETELY depends on the person. The amount of calories you burn while at rest -- doing nothing other than living -- is called your Basal Metabolic Rate, or BMR. You can use online calculators like this one to determine your BMR.

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Yes it's normal.

I could swear I posted an answer to this.

There is no yes or no answer to this. Like most things in life, it depends completely on the person. Depends. For some yes, for others no. For me it does not hurt. For another, she says it's unbearable and insists on being numb. For me, the numbing shot hurt 10x worse than the fill poke so I told them to knock that numbing crap off. Hasn't hurt since.

Wowzer, if you want a Snickers that bad, eat a Snickers. It's not going to make you gain 10 pounds, and if this is the result of your craving, it's better (IMO) to eat a Snickers and be done with it, than get to the point where you're obsessing about it (sounds like you're there now)... because that's when you eat 10 Snickers.

I'm not in the UK but I had about 14.3 stones to lose (200 lbs) and so far I have lost about 11.8. Can't answer yur last question because I haven't yet lost all the weight, but I am just under 18 months out.

Removal is normally done due to medical necessity, e.g. someone's band has eroded or it has slipped and the non-surgical routes have not corrected the problem.

I see a couple of questions here so I will answer them as I understand them, and if I've not answered the right questions, let me know. I can eat whatever I want as long as I'm careful and listed to my body. I read this in a few ways, and I'm not sure which you're asking, so I'll answer both. Can you drink alcohol? Yes, you can drink alcohol. Can you drink with meals? I CAN, as long as the food is passing through the stoma. I used to sip with meals, but I don't so much anymore. If I have food that has not cleared the stoma, drinking hurts and can make me have to yak. Tough to know how to answer this because overeating and my social life were never the same thing... so ability or inability to overeat is a "not applicable" when it comes to my social life out at a restaurant, for example. Can you overeat? Umm... yeah, unless you're tight and have consistent restriction. If you don't have restriction, the band can't do its job. If you do have restriction, you could still have irregular restriction patterns (for example you're very tight in the morning and not at all tight in the evening). But if you have restriction AND have it consistently, overeating is fairly limited to grazing because you're only able to physically hold so much until the food begins to clear the stoma. If you overeat with good restriction, this could most definitely impact your social life! :laugh

Ah, gotcha. I think. So you're unable to type the letters P and R together, without it autochanging over to "Page Ranking"? Well I know that messagboards can be set up with autofilters... e.g. so that "shit" is automatically changed to "parrot" or something. Maybe Alex has something like that set up with those letters. Or maybe it's just you. :mad: (Actually it's not, I just put in P and R together and did a preview, and saw "Page Ranking" too)

Are youg uys kidding me? Unless I'm going right back out, my bra is off within the first 5 mins of getting home. Usually the first 5 seconds. And sometimes, it's off before I'm home. I hate bras, and I really don't like clothes all that much. I will compromise with a knit house dress, a big tshirt, or a bathrobe/nightgown. I NEVER understood the point of being dressed and trying to lounge in jeans and a shirt when I'm in my own home and no one is coming over.

Umm... what?

I have a hard time with slimy foods. You'd think that if anything would go right down, it'd be a slimy thing... but nope. I made strawberry shortcake the other night and the strawberries gave me the worst time. So did some apricot jelly I ate the other day. Applesauce gives me more pressure than it's worth. Bananas just sit there for way too long. Etc.

You've been banded for... more than 6 years. Why do you need a protein drink? Can you not tolerate solids, e.g. supplement with a Protein Bar vs. a Protein Drink? How much protein do you need to supplement? There are protein waters out there, like the Special K Water. They don't have ginormous amounts of protein... but they have some.

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I used to drink lightly with meals. I dont' so much anymore, I'm just not thirsty when I eat now. For me, it never impacted how much I ate, or how long I felt satisfied. However, there were times when I would take a sip and knew isntantly it was a bad idea, usually after eating something "gummy" like bread or crackers.

Let me ask - if you, every day, cannot get food down -- why do you not believe you are too tight? In other words, what's happning that makes you think your level of restriction is either good, or low? For example, can you clearly relate it back to poor behaviors on your behalf?

My friends hate it when I say this (except one who agrees), but sometimes people just need to have an affair. I personally am not one of those people, but for some it really is the best thing.

Turkey pepperoni is IMO one of the perfect bandster foods. It's definitely one of my staples and has been since I could eat solids. I either eat it raw (not preferred, but will do in a pinch), or I will microwave it on paper towels or a paper plate for 2 - 3 minutes - just enough that the fat cooks out and the pepperonis get crispy, but they don't burn. Blot them dry as soon as they come out and they're not greasy or even oily, they're very dry. I will scoop cottage chees with them, or garden vegetable cream cheese, like chips and dip. Sometimes I use them as scoops for refried Beans or <meat>salad. Often I will just eat them plain. They aren't as "sharp" cooked as they are raw (they do have a strong flavor). They're also one of my travel foods since they're quick and I can just toss them into a ziploc for on the go. They're only like 4gm fat per serving, and I'm guesstimating that at least 80% of that cooks out when you microwave/blot them. In terms of a solid Protein that you can prepare without an oven, they're one of the better ratio foods out there.

I say no and I'm a moderator so there. :heh: On another thread, I posted "naked" pictures of myself. I'm naked in them, but you only see from the small of my back on up. Nothing lower, nothing from the front, not even anything from the side (other than the backs of my side boobs). I posted them to show how much more visible progress is when you're naked and can see the folds, bumps, etc. -- than when you're wearing clothes and really only see a change in how the clothes hang. One of the pics was pre-op, one was just the oher night. I got a few messages over that one... how inappropriate it was, how no one wants to see that, how this is a site with children, etc. It makes me think people saw "naked pictures" but didn't actually look at what I had posted. I dunno.

It looks technical but it's not, it's just basic percentages. Fitday is hard for me to use because I have to add everythind I eat, nothing ever seems to be in the DB. I can just do the math in less than a min. Much faster for me. :mad:

I work with a lady who refuses to pronounce long Us. She says then short, as in "umm." She knows better, she just doesn't do it. She wants to borrow my cal-cuh-later Or she looks through binocuhlerrs I have a hard time getting "ingo" right, but only with some words. With these, it comes out kind of like there's no g, and a nasal n. I can say "bingo" just fine, but if we're talking about the Beatles, it's kind of like "Rinho."

Yeah my husband has packed on about 30 lbs since my banding. He must have his own meal. So instead of sharing a meal with me, I have to order my own. And he eats my leftovers, which is basically two meals. When I told my mom I was getting the band, one of her comments was, "I wil be so jealous if you lose a bunch of weight." Yeah, she's jealous. Really jealous. Happy for me, but jealous. It definitely shows. The other day she said something to the effect of, "I am happy to take the title of fattest one in the family from you." And I believe it. I think she is happy (she always blamed herself for my weight), and I think it crushes her at the same time.