I am so confused as to why my doctor is telling me that I cannot have fruit, pasta, bread, potatoes, rice, or even cereal like oatmeal. I have a different doctor that does my fills than the one that did my surgery, and in a different state, too. Before I had the surgery, I was given a list of tons of healthy stuff I could eat after the surgery that included all that I mentioned above. Since I could not travel 8 hours everytime I needed a fill, I had to get a new doc. The Lap-Band® package my new doc gave me had a web site that I could go to for meal ideas and THEY have recipes with fruits in them. What is going on here? Do I need to find another doc?.... again?:thumbup:

The new Dr's advice does seem rather strange.There is nothing wrong with fruit or oatmeal. Lots of bandsters struggle with bread , rice and pasta so they can be a no no.

It could be that your new Dr has a low carb philosophy which your old Dr didn't, but even with low carb i can see nothing wrong with eating oats.

That's not very usual advice - low carb would be the explanation i'd guess, but even then, you need some of those foods.

Believe me, I've just taken the first dose of Picolax in preparation for a colonoscopy tomorrow, and I'm sitting here waiting for all hell to break loose. I have very problematic bowels and I would NEVER give up those fibrous foods. Its just not healthy, end of story.