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bbrecruiter2000

By bbrecruiter2000, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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Linda Harrison    0

Linda Harrison
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BTW Audrey...I commended you on the other thread but hey...your loss sticks out like a sore thumb too. Give us all some of your tips at losing so much so quickly too :D

I would appreciate any tips

Linda

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bbrecruiter2000    1

bbrecruiter2000
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Thanks to everyone here who give me my daily inspiration. As I have mentioned before, eating after banding is not complex unless you make it that way. I eat two meals and one or two Snacks a day. Since my most recent fill, I cannot eat more than 4 oz of food at a sitting and I eat on a salad plate. When I first started out, I was on a low carb high Protein diet. Now I can eat so little I eat pretty much whatever I want, just in really small quantities.

My favorite food is turkey chili. I also have eggbeaters with lean turkey or ham and a little cheese. I do not eat much bread or potatoes, or rice, but I will have some if I desire it. I can usually only eat a couple of bites anyway. I have a skinny cow low carb Peanut Butter and chocolate ice cream bar in the evenings and I try to drink 40-50 oz of Water per day. My total caloric intake is about 1000-1100 calories and about 50-60 grams of Protein. I really have to work hard to eat 1,000 calories now. It is a luxury problem, but lately I have been thinking that I may be too tight. I like it better before I had this fill because I could still eat about 6 oz of food and now I really struggle to eat because I am not really hungry very often and I gurgle a lot since this last fill. No PBing, but some discomfort for the first 5-10 minutes.

I thought I would try to work with this fill since I have not PB'ed. I also had a really bad cold that has lasted 3 weeks and has caused irritation in my esophagus because of coughing. So I will wait it out a couple more days and see if there is an improvement if I only do liquids and hot tea!

Anyway, with restriction, it gets easier to do this.

SOrry, no secrets of the universe here. Also I do exercise 3 x a week, so I am sure that this is helping as well.

Babs in TX

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6/23/03

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Excellent Job Babs!

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