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..A "chewing" question....

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14isabella    3

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Okay. I've been perusing through these boards for quite a while now, and I've often wondered: Did you all(who've had the band) learn to chew slowly and completely BEFORE or AFTER the band? I'm trying my best to remember to do so, but I STILL take large bites at time. I DO NOT want to get stuck! , so I know I HAVE to learn to take smaller bites...And, is there much pain when one DOES get stuck?? Thanks!

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Cindy C    150

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It's much easier to remember after you've been stuck a few times! After 3 years, I still have to remind myself occasionally!

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Cocoabean    430

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What Cindy said. I tried to practice while waiting for my surgery. But until you have experienced the pain, it is hard to remember. Yes, it IS painful. It feels like I swallowed a rock that is sitting just below my sternum.

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brbm6    6

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I learned the hard way............after the band. One stuck episode and I never want to be stuck again!

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nurse535    30

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I bought some child size spoons and forks to help me remember to take smaller bites and it has helped. Even though my teenage son makes fun of me LOL.

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got2bme566    0

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after SEVERAL Stuck episodes and I too now use the baby spoons. learned that here on the boards but it works for me!

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14isabella    3

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Thanks, guys! The baby spoon idea sounds great. I will add that to my ever-expanding "things to buy before surgery" list!

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vickyd    24

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I tried to practice taking small bites and chewing completely but I dont think I really "got it" until I got stuck for the first time. I knew exactly what I had done but I still have to remind myself to slow down and take smaller bites.

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roziecakes    20

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I started practicing about 2 weeks before I got the band. My nutritionist said to say the ABCs in my head as I chew, and that helped a lot. I also started practicing not drinking with my meals, and sitting up at a table (I used to eat at my desk and in bed all the time!).

It helped, but really, you don't really know until you get there exactly how much you'll have to chew things; at this point I'm still learning too, since I haven't graduated to 'real food' completely yet; still on mushies.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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