Hello everyone, i am not yet banded but have been hanging out here and asking a lot of questions to help me to figure out if this procedure will work for me.

I found a very disturbing thread about the difficulties a person had had with the lap band.

This person said that despite their complications being unrelated, you could easily self sabotage the band by eating chocolate and icecream as these both melt and slip down very easily.

Do you guys ever go to chocolate and icecream when you are stressed out, and how difficult do you find it to pick things back up again?

Despite it being easier to eat these in this context, does the band effect the way you eat them now as oppose to the way you would of eaten them before?

If you were a "whole tub of ice cream" person before, with the band, could you still do that now or is it slightly different e.g takes longer etc, if it is different, could you describe how?

The same with chocolate, if you were a "whole bar of chocolate" (or two or three in my case) kind of person before, could you still do that now or is it slightly different e.g takes longer etc, if it is different, could you describe how?

I really appreciate any comments or stories anyone has to offer in response to my questions,

Many thanks,

Dune.

Edited November 12, 201015 yr by Dune
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If your question is whether the band will help with emotional eating of creamy/sugary foods, I'd say no. Those types of foods do not slow down as they pass through the band, so you don't get the signal from your stomach that you are full and should stop eating, unless your band is very, very tight.

It doesn't matter how much food I've eaten, there is almost always room for ice cream, a milk shake, or chocolate bar.

Emotional food issues need to be dealt with in other ways than with a band.

My mom bought sonic and she got me a sonic blast bit I am scared that if I eat the ice cream and it has oreos smashed can it affect gastric sleeve