mnn2501

OK, so I have been banded just over a year now, and while I lost 50 lbs right away, I really have not lost anything after that. After 5 fills I do have restriction, but here's my question. When I first start eating I am restricted and must eat slowly and chew, chew, chew or I slime. after the first couple bites, the restriction loosens up and I can usually eat a normal sized meal (which admitedly is about 1/3 of what I used to be able to eat). I think maybe I should stop eating before the restriction loosens, but if so I would be eating a couple bites every hour or so (hard to be able to do at work, etc). Anyone else have this problem or notice this? What are y'all doing?

Yes, my wife had diabetes and occasionally has issues with low blood sugar, keep fruit juices around and there is alway glucose tablets - although at time she finds them hard to use - OJ or apple juice always works - in a pinch melt some sugar in a small amount of water and drink it or even let sugar disolve in your mouth.

Hmm, no one told me anything about OJ and I've drank a lot of fresh squeezed since I got my band (Feb 08) Never had a problem but then I drink everything slowly as even water will give me a problem if I drink too fast

Suggestion: Don't look Seriously, its going into the port and just a very little ways into you. like someone said - I've had much worse paper cuts for pain.

Meat tenderizer (Adolfs at least) IS Papaya A book my surgeon hands out to all his patients suggests it. I wish doctors would get together and come to a consensus on what is allowed etc.

Funny that every other doctor I have ever heard about promotes protein shakes. You need more claories, start the shakes. disclaimer: I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV.:thumbup: But I have had my band for almost a year.

Stick to liquids today, if you think you still have something stuck, swallow a little bit of meat tenderizer. I have also heard pineapple juice helps, but have never personally tried it. And remember for the future -- chew, chew, chew.

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Ask them to get aggrssive, it took 5 fills for me to feel anything at all, and the 6th finally did it for me. Thats for sure, 6th fill was it -- Finally!

Been banded since Feb 2008 and I lost 6 pounds over the holidays, sorry you gained. If you want to go on a diet, farbeit from me to stop you, but if diets worked we all would not have needed to be banded. It appears lots of people feel the same way you do, so Good luck.

I cetainly don;t want to tell you to not follow doctors order, but I had a solid food on day 4, (Meximelt from Taco Bell) -- only time I cheated and it took a couple hours to get it down, but I really needed it and it helped me with post banding depression.

Don;t worry, it'll get better, that was about how many calories I was taking in the first 2 weeks, it'll get better. a couple weeks with low protein won't kill you and you will be able to eat more soon, every week I added about 150 calories to what I could eat.

Unless you have little to no restriction why are you having to go on a special diet to lose weight you gained over the holidays? I didn't get banded to eat wildly and gain weight then go on a diet -- thats what life was before I was banded.

My doc won't do it anymore often than every 4 weeks, but will/did get aggressive when I asked him to -- I had zero restriction my first 3 fills and I told him to get aggressive, he did and 4th fill had some restriction - not enough though, so I got my 5th last Monday -- Finally I have the restriction I expected and am losing weight I had gained back between 2nd and 4th fill. If you have no restriction after 2 fills you need to be firm with your doctor - you are after all paying her. Now the good news, my wife had restriction from day 1 - never had a fill and has lost 85 lbs since March -- so who knows, we both had opposite results Soup is on my list of things TO eat and right now its what I get a lot of my nutritian from (homemade veggie soup, Pasta figoli, chicken tortilla, bean soup, etc) I stay away from canned Soups myself mainly becuase of the sodium and the fact that canned soup is nothing like homemade -- and I like cooking. Frankly I think the doctors are clueless about what works and what doesn't, every doctor says something different and many contradict each other. If you like soup and soup works for you - then eat soup.

The Wii fit board is not able to handle those that could use it the most -- it'll break if you put over 300 lbs on it. Great idea but a very very bad design. I guess Sony is not expecting any Sumo sized people to use it.