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It's easy to overeat when you're a newbie. It can take some time to recognize the satiety or stuck signals. I remember getting stuck early in my journey and before I knew it, I had eaten too much and not only was my band/pouch stuffed with food, but I had backed food up into my esophagus. This can stretch out the esophagus causing some minor pain or discomfort. It's best to go back to liquids for a day or two. Or, at least lay off dense, solid foods like meats or broccoli. Give it a rest. Learning how to eat very slow, eat very small bites and chew food to an applesauce consistency can take months or even years to develop. I'm nearly 3 years out and still struggle with this. So, I believe it's normal but avoidable if you pay close attention and follow the rules. jmo tmf

Forever?? Me thinks you're being a little over-dramatic here. All kinds of clichés come to mind. Every journey starts with a first step! Ask for your limitations and they're yours! You'll always have the chance to give up, why do it now? This is no different than anyone else's journey as they begin. You just have to begin again. I've seen hundreds of people who fell off the bandwagon and climbed back on to find success or lose enough weight to make it all worthwhile. No reason you can't do the same. And, it took me 6 fills and 7 months to fill my band to the green zone. Not forever, just long enough for me to understand how this thing works. Good luck. tmf

Biking. Road bike or mountain bike. Either is fine. I put on about 75 miles a week.

Your ER experience sounds more like a stuck episode and you panicked? Getting food stuck in our stoma can be very frightening and painful. It also creates lots of saliva/phlegm in our esophagus. When you get your fill come back and let us support you? There are satiety signals we look for and they're very subtle. Good luck.

Ask about endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty. They don't remove your stomach and shape it to behave like the sleeve. Google it too.

I just ordered the 3X5 pack from Amazon. Should be great for Breakfast?

Great find! Have to remember this for WLS patients going into pre-op and post-op diets. I see I can order it through amazon or online from millies. Did you find it in a store?

You're going to have to provide evidence(documentation) that you were on some kind of program such as weight watchers or some doctor supervised program and were unsuccessful. Insurance can be very picky over something like this if they want to be. My insurance required this but only for 6 months and then they waived the requirement for everyone about my 5th month of supervised nut/doc visits.

Piece of cake! I'm going in for my total knee replacement on Monday. Went to Youtube to see how they did it. Big mistake. Real ugly compared to lapband surgery. I'll trade ya surgeries if we can go back to real outcomes?

Well, we don't know your doctor or his protocol so who knows? It will depend on how you answer questions about your eating habits and how much weight have you lost overall and lately? I'd say most docs fill around 4-6 weeks so you've got a 60% shot at a fill, IF, you need one? tmf

It's just one glass of Water. Think about the fact that you're probably drinking 64+ ozs(8 glasses a day) of water plus any other fluids like shakes, crystal lite, coffee? Easy to gain a lb of fluids in one day.

I'm sure some people don't care for the texture of barley, but I love it's chewy goodness.

I've been eating Progresso Beef Barley soup for over 2 years and it's never caused a stuck episode. In fact, most all foods that are surrounded by some kind of sauce, gravy or salsa rarely ever causes a problem.

I believe most doctors prefer we not consume processed flours as a daily routine but most should be OK with an occasional sandwich or piece of toast? My nut advised having half a bagel with some cream cheese on it. The band life shouldn't mean we can't eat certain foods, it just means we should make better decisions. I can eat anything but I choose to eat breads maybe 1-2 times a week and I limit this to Oroweat flatbreads for the most part. Occasionally I'll have a tortilla but again, not every day. The idea is to eat less food and eat healthier food than we did before. You'll lose slower this way but for many of us it's a compromise I have to make to avoid binging on other less healthy foods. So, in my opinion, there are not banned foods, not even white bread or flour tortillas. Your doctor may have different ideas on this but as long as you lose weight, no one will care.imo

Interesting phrase but why do you need kedging? Need more information?

So, the pain is coming from the port site? Should be a simple antibiotics issue? Why did you have your band removed?

How did it go? Good I'll bet?

The band won't work it's magic till it's adjusted properly. Till then, "it's just another diet"...B-52

Your doctor didn't say? Mine asked me to go 24 hours on liquids such as Protein shakes and cream Soups. Then to take it easy and try to avoid steaks, chicken and most really dense dry food for another 24.

I think you'll find that most of us didn't want 85% of our stomachs removed or have our entire digestive system moved around and re-plumbed. For many of us we would have opted to not have WLS at all if it meant major alterations of our digestive system. On average the other two major WLS do lose more weight and have slightly fewer complications though. And then there's the eating issues we banders have? But, it's all manageable if one makes the commitment to follow the rules. But there is one new surgical technique that is still in the review stage that looks promising. It's called endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty. Looks promising and once it's available I would think the band and sleeve will become less popular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrGlxY2DV8s

Would you consider a very small unfill of about .1-.2 CCs so you can eat normal foods in the AM?

And what does your doctor think?

During digestion of food, our stomachs realize peristalsis. This is the esophagus and stomach muscles contracting and relaxing as they massage food through our stomachs. Doctors want to keep this at a minimum so your sutures can heal. And, if you get food stuck in your stoma/band, and continue eating, the pressures could cause the sutures to tear away. One more? People experience a lot of nausea for weeks after surgery. Regurgitating solid food back up through the stoma/band could also do harm to the integrity of the surgery. tmf

Anywhere from people who gain weight to people who lose 25 lbs. It depends so much on how heavy you are before surgery and how much of it is stored in your adipose as fluids. Most of the weight lost the first 30 days is just Water. Maybe 5-10 lbs of fat but mostly water.

That last comment in the article was uncalled for. His family must be devastated at all the unwanted attention?