I was recently banded on June 21st and am now almost three weeks post op. My first post op appt was on Monday the 9th and I have lost 19 pounds since surgery. right now I feel like I am totally doing it on my own, My Dr. will not allow a first fill until 6 weeks after surgery, and I am counting down the days. After surgery I was eating about 3 oz and was satisfied now I feel like I could eat just like I did before surgery, which I do not like. I stay on the diet plan starting with protien shakes in the AM and then chicken, seafood and other high protien items during the day for meals. My weight has not moved much in a week. I discussed this with my doctor and he said this is normal since I have nothing in my band. I will get my first fill on the 30th of this month and I am looking forward to it.

I am still a little sore around my largest incesion and hoping that will subside very soon. Other than that I feel great.

I do have a request. I am looking for meal ideas/ recipes. If you all have any recipes that you would like to share with me. I would love to hear them. I am from Louisiana and we down here love good food. just looking for some new ideas that I can use. So please drop your recipes to me, And I will try some of them. I will do the same and post some as well. Thanks

Try looking in the portion of the site called "nutrition" I think I saw some recipes there. Also I saw that people were putting up websites just for lap band recipes. Try googling it. You might find something.

~Casey