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@Dusty_S @crnpwallick i promise you can do it... Just get back to what you know works. Start over, do the 1 week liquid, 1 week puree, 1 week soft, etc.... Reset your band... it can be done.

I've been making bento boxes for a couple of years now...to the point that it borders on mild obsession and it just occurred to me that bento boxes are (luckily) basically the
perfect for people with lap bands!
Tiny, gorgeous boxes, carefully filled with visually stunning, nutritionally dense, interesting food, and they're designed to be portable- what could be more appropriate for people who rely on Portion Control and careful nutrition?
Bento boxes are practically tailor made for people with lap bands!
I had a short period where I was only making my husband's lunch bentos and for some reason I wasn't making my own between the surgery and a few days ago (first fill).
I guess I didn't know what do do and had to learn about how to eat again.
But after I thought about it I realized that bento-ing is actually what I really need to be doing in the long term...
so I'm over the moon because it's one of my favorite things to do and I'm so glad it's so appropriate for my weight loss agenda, so bring on the kyaraben!!
I have over 100 pics of my bentos I think I'll start a website about it.
Any other bento box people here?
Any other "bandits" have an entire section of their kitchen devoted to cute little lunch boxes, ornate toothpicks and little sauce containers from Japan?
I'd be shocked if other bandsters weren't bento boxing.
It's just..so...perfect!! :thumbup:

Oh man, I love this!!! I can't believe how much difference it makes to use a Ninja blender for a Protein drink! I took my usual 8 oz skim milk and Bariatric Advantage chocolate powder and put in 2 tbs healthy Peanut Butter and some Fiber powder. Blend. Then some ice. WOW!! It tastes like a frosty from Wendy's ...no, even better!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@Dusty_S Good thing in Dusty.... you know what your doing .... and it can be fixed. I gain 20 a couple years ago... and when i didn't fit into my favorite jeans... i looked with in and knew what i was doing and set my mind to change it. I said to myself... Self, you didn't do what you did, sacrifice what you sacrificed to go back.... so i lost that 20 and almost 20 more.
That's whats good about the band... you are in control... but you have to be in CONTROL... Remember you can't eat what you don't buy.... when you go to buy the ice cream... don't... in fact don't even go down that isle at the supermarket.
Start back at the basics.... go back to your small plate and have only what you know you should have. NO.. Seconds!!! No grazing.... Go back to the 10 commandments of the lapband. I reposted it a while back.
http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/377235-the-10-commandments-of-the-lapband-a-revisit/