liquidbluegal

Try Hummus???? Tribe Hummus is good....16 different flavors! you can mix it with tuna too!

Congrats!!!! you are looking great at 3 weeks out!!!

My doctor doesn't call it mushies either just a stage 4 diet plan...I guess right now I am on mushies/liquids...protein shakes, puddings, cottage cheese, oatmeal, ricotta cheese, jello, etc....I called my doctor and he said I can start stage 4 next monday which is exciting for me...I just feel hungry all the time...

So I am dreaming of the mushies. I was banded over a week ago and I still have 2 weeks of liquids to go...I am starving.... So what does mushies consist of?

I am probably gonna be starving by the time I have my first fill! I have to wait 8 weeks!!!!! I cannot start mushies until I see the doctor on Sept 3rd!!!

Best of Luck to Everyone! It is well worth the wait! Welcome to BandLand!!!

Well positive note...I went on a sweet date today...I had ice cream(not good) since I cannot do dinner yet and then we sat at the ocean...it was nice...

Well i usually get hiccups alot and bad since I always ate and drank to fast. I would get them really deep too! I have been banded a week and haven't had the hiccups at all...probably because I slowed down my eating habits. If you do I have a hug pillow that I hug to my stomach when i sneeze and cough and that helps a lot too! Good luck with your journey into bandland

eating...hmmm....3 protein shakes, water, sf jello, and i love the sf ff cheesecake pudding...helps to fill me too!!! I also have been doing LF cream soups...I just throw them in the blender so it won't irrate the band. I am on this diet until Sept 3rd. Yucky then mushys can start. Oh and applesauce...Thats about it nothing exciting.

thanks Everyone!!! i am a little glad that this is a common thing, but It still stinks that it is happening!

Be honest and ask for a note or documented proof to cover your butt...if you are on a trial period....

There is a pain that only comes when I breathe because when there is pressure applied there. It feels as if my port is rubbing on my ribs....Is this normal? Is it from swelling? It is worst then yestereday...I told the doctor about the pressure and he said that is becuase i haven't had a bm, but today it feels as if something is rubbing there....anyone else experience this?

Pure Acetone...one swip and its gone!

Well I have lost a lot since last friday... 7.24.08 246 8.8.08 240 8.15.08 230.4 I am on the road to being heathly!!!!

Thank you everyone! It was a hard first night and i am still upset. I really didn't sleep to well and it was just all the lies he told me flooding my head. Today is the day I am starting over. I am shedding my last tear now. I am just devasted I guess....Just trying to keep my head up! What comes around goes around!

Thank you! Everyone! I need all the support now. He just did a 360 on me and told me he wasn't attracted to me at all....That hurt...but i am trying to be strong and jst i cannot stop crying....but i am trying my hardest...i was bad and went and had a dunkins decaf ice coffee with a friend and it was great!

So I am sitting here crying and crying...Crying so hard it felt that something popped inside of me...My boyfriend of almost 2 years just left me...he was sleeping with his exwife behind my back and went back to her....I am sooo broken....He just came here and packed everything up....So here I am all alone just had surgery this past monday and everything was going so good and just bam in my face! I feel just alone...no one here.... ps...I did call the doctor and still waiting for a response back....:tongue_smilie:

Good Luck everyone into your journey into bandland! It is well worth the wait...

i am dying to go to the bathroom. My doctor gave me colace and it isn't working...I haven't gone since Sunday...Help!

Yes I cheated...I lost exactly 13.2lbs in my two week diet. I ate applebees and red robin...but i was good the rest of the time! My liver was perfect. That was in the beginning of my diet and then i got use to it and on track 100%

When I started my job I had to have surgery a month later. If they are a good company they will understand. Each appointment usually lasted an hour or so. Always get a doctors note and photocopy it so you have a copy so it covers your back if they say anything. They dont need to know why you are going to the doctors. That is a privacy law. Good luck with your journey

Before the surgeon would submit my papers to insurance I had to attend 2 info sessions, see the nutrionist, see the pysch doctor, head of the department, bloodwork, gallbladder ultrasound, and then meet with the surgeon. The usually put all the appointments together. Mine was spread over 2 days and the 3rd time it was with the surgeon and then scheduled my surgery and preop appointment. Every hospital is different.

At the hospital I went to it is. We are required to stay overnight. I would think so if you were going home the same day, since it knocked me out hardcore. My bf came and visited and i was half dead.

Nope I think it depends on the hospital and your insurance. I had my first appointment with the doctor on june 17th and i had surgery on Aug 11th. Good luck in your journey into bandland!

Welcome to bandland. I was also banded on the 11th and i am in no mood to eat all which is nice, but of course I am drinking my shakes and drinking all my Water. I just dont have any hunger pains or full pains either. I also stayed over night and it was the best thing ever. I was hooked to a morphine drip and it was great. Did they give you a hug pillow to take home? If not get a firm pillow and hug it to your belly and that has allowed me to sleep on my side. I also use it to get out of bed and on car rides(i live in pothole central) Your arms and pillow take the impact and not your stomach. It is good to hold when you sneeze, cough, and hiccup. Good luck with everything! Keep in Touch:thumbup: