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What are you eating that you can eat 2 cups?

Tylenol w/codiene is addictive so be very careful? tmf

The risk is, if you are obese and don't have surgery or find another way to lose weight, you will stay fat, you'll expose yourself to dozens of unwanted ailments(arthritis, gout, diabetes, heart disease) and a possible early departure from this world. Just being frank!

I'm not into dating(married) but I can definitely understand. I went Friday night to the Denver Auto Show with my son and his GF. We had a couple of pulled pork sandwiches and I cut mine in half and was only able to eat half of my half before I got stuck. Not a lot of fun and of course, unbanded people have no idea what we go through. tmf

Spare us the details K?

IMO..swollen. You had the trifecta of don'ts for band patients. Swollen from a stuck episode, morning tightness and hard boiled eggs(a very difficult food for many of us). Stick to liquids until you feel it loosen up and call your doc in the morning if it's not better. Liquids are a must or you'll get dehydrated.

Yeah, paid medications can slow your digestive system to a crawl or complete halt. I didn't take any after surgery and relied on ibuprofen. It's going to take about 24 hours to get the medication to exit your body. I prefer dulcolax myself.

So I'm sorry to be too graphic here but remember, someone filled your body cavity full of gas, they pumped fluids, medications, antibiotics and anesthesia into your body. They punched 5 holes in your abdomen, moved all your inner body parts around, shoved a tube down your throat, took an electric scalpel and burned away excess fat and tissue wrapped around your upper stomach, then wrapped a plastic strap around your stomach, stitched it in place with 5-6 sutures bringing your lower stomach up and over the band and then snaked a tube out of your body and then sewed another plastic piece to the muscle tissue on your rib cage. Now, thinking about all that has been done to your body, you're doing quite well aren't you?

I probably wouldn't since it's usually a low fat, low cal food. It might go down easily but if it's a snack food it should give you some satiety? In my mind, a slider food is a food that is low nutrition, high glycemic and gives no satiety. Of course, one could over indulge in any food and have bad results? tmf

Yes/No, LOL..My daughter claims she's 5' 0" and I know she's less than that but short people tend to hang onto every fraction of an inch. So, that was actually a good recommend and not an LOL. If someone is flirting with the low end of the BMI scale, give up your pride and maybe an inch or less to become eligible? Moot point now that she's considered a candidate but a similar topic like this will come up again and it's a good point to make. tmf

If you're going to cheat, cheating with low glycemic foods is the way to go.

That sounds like having my primary doc performing an ACL reconstruction. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?

It will take time for you to understand the difference between hunger and cravings? Cravings can be just as consuming as real hunger and the more you think about eating, the greater the craving. It took me over a year to tell the diff. Being hungry does not equate to weight loss. If it's true hunger it's just your body giving you signals that it needs nourishment. I doubt it helps to burn more calories and if it does, it's miniscule. You lose weight(fat) because you burn more calories than you consume. It sounds like you're in "Bandster Hell". Most of us have been there. It will go away once you get that fill that provides you the satiety signals to get you through the day. tmf

Foods that slide through your band easily and do not give you the satiety signal. Foods like soups, chips, cookies, refried beans, many mexican foods, crackers.

No. You're fine but stop eating crap! Drink protein shakes, cream soups, egg drop soup anything but crap.

Dilation of your pouch would be very painful for me and I would imagine most of us. It would mean that I'm pushing myself beyond being stuck and sliming. There are some whose pouch and esophogus seem to not have the nerve endings that give them the pain that should be associated with stretching that would take place? Being able to eat a lot of food does not equate to having a stretched or dilated pouch. It usually means you need a few fills and that your pouch(stomach) has become more efficient at pushing food through the stoma. And usually when we bandsters overeat, we eat around the band with slider type foods that shouldn't have any effect on the pouch. jmo

You can't really drink too much unless you're talking about more than 100 ozs?

Why are you feeling miserable?

We can advise you better if you fill your profile.

I eat 3 regular meals a day and two snacks too.

Perfectly normal. You have no saline in your band so the opening(stoma) is quite large. This allows all fluids and even most regular food to just flow right through to your stomach. tmf

Yes

Potato chips are what we call a slider food. Chips and crackers I can eat till the cows come home so I just don't buy them.

Lori, looks like you have some of the same misconceptions many of us had before surgery(I know I did). Some of us can eat anything we want. Just not the same volume we once ate or the same way we ate before surgery. And I know of no doctor who would encourage a patient to eat pizza 3 days post op and no one here would either. Here is a series of videos that Alex(the forum monitor)posted recently. A must watch for anyone considering the band or recently banded. I would recommend you set aside an hour to view each one before you have surgery. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/166857-the-eight-golden-rules-lap-band-videos-by-dr-paul-obrien/page__hl__alex#entry1962873

I was in "Bandster Hell" the entire time. That's where our band opening(stoma) is wide open and giving very little or no restriction. Hungry all the time. I started eating healthy which reduced my intake of bad calories and just having the band seemed to help me feel full with less food. I started exercising again so I probably kept pace with my fat loss by adding muscle. But, once I had my 4th fill my weight loss journey accelerated. tmf