I'm still learning... what exactly are your slider foods? I keep hearing the term "slider food" and I still don't exactly know what that means (except for ice cream.) There are some days certian foods go down really well for me, and other days the same foods won't go down at all so I'm really not sure what slider foods are.

Any help in understanding this would be grately appreciated.

Thanks!

ice cream , peanut butter, sugar drinks, juices, some cakes pudding- suggared candy choculate rule of thumb if it soft and melt dont eat it cheese

Slider foods are foods that go right through the band and don't keep you full for very long.

IMHO all slider foods are not "bad" and different people have different sliders.

I would guess milkshakes would be a slider to most of us. For some bandsters popcorn is a slider. It doesn't stay in the pouch long enough to get that full signal.

Sliders are anything that "slide" right down through the band. Usually they have little to no nutrtional value. Like ice cream, milk shakes, Cookies, chips. Any other highly processed, easy to chew and swallow food you can think of.

Some folks defeat the band by having it too tight and then relying on slider foods to survive. But not getting any nutrtion along with high calories, it is easy to feel horrible and gain weight back.

As HB said, slider foods will vary with the person. cheese is not a slider food for me, but potatoes, rice and Pasta are (even when I had too much fill and was getting stuck on everything else)...and many people have problems with rice and pasta.

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I think a slider is:

A) Anything that goes quickly through the band and doesn't keep you satisfied for a normal amount of time.

:thumbup: Anything that goes through the band so easily that you can eat an unlimited amount.

Sliders can also be nutritious, for me, chili and Soup slide right through my band and leave me hungry an hour later. But chips and salsa are the slider that I have to watch out for, I can eat an unlimited amount without becoming full. If I am going to eat them, I need to measure out a portion and not just eat them out of the bag because there is no STOP signal involved.