Today I decided I would buy a nice steak and have it for dinner. First since the surgery. I saved half to put in lunch tomorrow. After the first bite I had to stop! I just could not swallow it!! I chewed it up good but I almost seemed to gag! Guess I'll have to wait awhile before I try that again!! I can eat ground beef fine..... On a happier note, I got out some of my old jeans that I could not wear....I can put them on!! The ones I had been wearing were starting to really sag down. I kept pulling them up! Time to start separating clothes! I have some dresses I will try soon too.

Wow that's awesome! Why can't you get the steak down? I don't understand about that.....

I know it's weird isn't it? Maybe the meat wasn't so tasty and I just couldn't swallow it! It's happened before if it just doesn't taste right.

Wow that's awesome! Why can't you get the steak down? I don't understand about that.....

My surgeon says that steak /beef is the hardest meat for a lapbander to eat. He said that there is only one cut that we should be eating(but then he got a phone call, and lost his train of thought). I am 1year and 3 months out, and I still can not digest steak! Goodluck with your trying, and your weight loss. Karen(kll724)

I have steak regularly. I find that marinating it giood I'd key. Also I cut it up into very small pieces (like earasser size) but it could just be one of those foods that don't work for you. As funny as this sounds i cannot eat yogurt...i get that stuck feeling every time!

Steak has always been hard for me to eat but at times chicken is also hard for me to eat.

I have been banded for over a year. I am very tight now and the only steak I can eat is Filet Mignon. Go figure. The most expensive cut of meat. Anything else is too tough no matter how much I chew it but Filet is very soft and goes down okay.

I am afraid to try steak.I couldnt digest it 2 well before the surgery, so I think this is one meat I should leave alone.

I have been banded for over a year. I am very tight now and the only steak I can eat is Filet Mignon. Go figure. The most expensive cut of meat. Anything else is too tough no matter how much I chew it but Filet is very soft and goes down okay.

I don't eat poultry or red meat (or pork), but sometimes fish, if its not flaky or moist, has a really hard time going down (like swordfish...or any other "meaty" fish). So I really only eat flaky fish (salmon, cod, turbot, mackerel, etc.). I can't even imagine trying to eat steak or chicken (except for maybe dark meat...I would imagine white meat would get stuck on the first bite). I guess just take the tiniest bites and really chew until its mush!