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wrong threads? they shouldnt even be on the internet ... :thumbs_up:

best of luck to you, i hope you have a speedy recovery.

sounds like a call to your surgeon would be a good idea. maybe something to do with your esophogus (sp???)

best of luck to you!

see if the FAQ answers some of your questions. link below. your doctor should also explain these in detail and give you guidelines when you should start each stage. Lap Band Talk Forum - The largest forum for Lap Band Surgery Discussion and Lap Band Surgery Support - FAQ: Post-operative concerns - First weeks as a "Bandster"

i dont care if they are black, white, pink, green or purple (although stripes would be nice)... as long as they do a competent job, represent our country well and undo the damage that has happened the past 8 years...

im complaining cause people are posting in the wrong thread...

thanks! im so pleased with Dr. P's work!! :thumbs_up:

ok, so im stealing some of faith's wisdom from another post. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/675012-post7.html That is a popular question: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f9/how-ma...mushies-30582/ (How many days before Mushies...) http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/how-s...hy-foods-1187/ (how soon for mushy foods?) http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f84/why-d...post-op-44909/ http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f84/how-l...hy-food-27508/ (How long before you were eating mushy-food?) Does it matter? It seems we are trying to either trying to validate our cheating on OUR doc's post-op diet ("See, someone else can have mushy food in three days, I was okay to eat those mashed potatoes, etc...") or it is to see if others have cheated with us, or it is find other to commiserate with ("My doc is sooo strict, yours is too? Thank goodness someone else understands."). Really, does it matter? You should be STICKING like GLUE to what YOUR DOCTOR (or nutritionist) told you to do. I wasn't allowed mushies until after three weeks. I could do pureed after two weeks. I think. I don't honestly remember and it's only been six months. See how it fades? It seems awful right now (and it was, that part I DO remember), but this is your life and your BAND. Stick to the diet, please. PLEASE do not get jealous of what someone else can do and think it's okay for you to do it, too. And please please please do not fall into the trap of "I chewed it really well, it went down fine, I feel fine, so it is okay." It's NOT okay. See Wendell's thread in the FAQ section about how the band really works for a good description of why eating early is bad. A year or two down the line someone may have a slip (they rarely know what causes slips), then I wonder if they think back to when they had that piece of pizza "chewed really well" and wonder if that contributed to it. I honestly believe that a)surgeons are sick to death of hearing us food addicts (I'm including myself here, otherwise I wouldn't be fat) whine and cry and piss and moan about how we can't possibly go a week or two or three on liquids so rather than have us cheat and eat something like fried chicken or pizza or steak they relented and went for the lesser of the evils and gave us the "mushy" phase a litle early. b)the other thought is the surgical technique has improved over the years and the sutures are a bit better and the new AP band and the Swedish band (Realize in the US) and the Midband are wider bands and thus should stay in place better and have less of a tendency to slip. But do we know that for sure yet? Hoe long term are the studies (and are there any large studies that demonstrate that shorter liquid and mushy phases do NOT contirbute to band complications?). I think it NEVER hurts to go a bit longer on each of the stages, especially the liquids stage. It gives your stomach a chance to heal and from scar tissue around the band to hold it in place (they can only suture on the front of the stomach, not the back, scars must form to hold the back in place) and to allow a "groove" to form for the band to settle in. The more you eat of food with more substance (yes even if you chew it really well) the more churning your stomach does to produce acids and enzymes to break that food down. Think about it. You walk into a bakery, you smell something wonderful, your mouth starts watering. You've started that digestive process. It's your body reacting to preparing for food. If you eat something you have to chew and chew, the body is producing lots of enzymes to break down that food. Producing those acids and enzymes causes (to a degree) some movement of the stomach muscle. Now I'm not saying it's in there running a race, but keeping the movements of the stomach to a minimum in the early days after banding is never a bad thing.

i used to be hot ALL THE TIME. literally standing in line at the grocery store and could be dripping with sweat (with the AC on )... now, im freeeeeezing - all.the.time... good luck

hope all went well today, please keep us posted.

best of luck to you!

hi Nancy, welcome to LBT and good luck on the 16th. :thumbs_up:

hi Rebecca, welcome to LBT and best of luck to you on the 16th.

congrats!!!

what kind of exercise are you doing? i agree with the others, if you are not logging your food, start logging every bite... how much do you have to lose? (the more you weigh, the quicker the initial loss is)

hi Lisa, welcome to LBT and congrats on your success so far! :thumbs_up:

hi, welcome to LBT. im in the DFW area, who is your surgeon? good luck Friday.

hi, welcome to LBT.

hi, welcome to LBT. good luck on your journey

hi, welcome to LBT! good luck

OMG ... niiiiiiice..... :thumbs_up:

hi Angie, welcome to LBT. good luck on your journey.

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