First off thank you all for listening. I really enjoy having a forum that I can come to. I a just wondering. I am a week out and I just introduced full liquids into my diet. I can't differentiate the feelings in my belly, there is a growl and a rumble and sometimes I feel hungry and others it passes. I just had my gall bladder out in Feb also so that could be a lot of it. My insides screaming WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME LOL! However, how much should I be eating say of the 100 calorie fat free greek yogurt. A whole small container? A half? Just want to make sure that I have the most success!

Always follow your own doctors instructions, but most say each meal should be no more than 1 cup of food per meal total.

Right he gave me instructions but he didn't give me an amount per serving or sitting. Just wondering. Thank you!

Hey mis73 you are back?! How are you feeling?!!!!

Hey mis73 you are back?! How are you feeling?!!!!

Much, much better. Thanks

Right he gave me instructions but he didn't give me an amount per serving or sitting. Just wondering. Thank you!

It's per sitting not serving. Your entire meal shouldn't be more than 1 cup with all the food combined.

Right I understand that. Thanks again.

Once I healed I ate pretty much like normal because I didn't have any restriction. The more restriction I got the less I ate. Trying to eat like your band is working when it's not actually working yet is like trying to drive your car to work without starting the engine...you probably won't make it very far and you'll just be frustrated the more you try

Are allowed mushies ice yogurt at this point? I as only on full liquids on week out.

I am just really trying to learn all these noises and pains and things in my stomach. Is it hunger, is it digestion, is it my body saying what the heck did you do? I don't know I guess I am just having an overwhelming day. I came back to work today so I have been trying to make it through the day. I am just glad that I can come and vent or talk and ask questions.

Yogurt was on the list from my dr to start on week 2.

The growling may decrease as time goes by but it may always be with you. One of the side-effects of the band. It usually has nothing to do with hunger. It's just there.

2muchfun- thank you I am glad to know that!

Once I healed I ate pretty much like normal because I didn't have any restriction. The more restriction I got the less I ate. Trying to eat like your band is working when it's not actually working yet is like trying to drive your car to work without starting the engine...you probably won't make it very far and you'll just be frustrated the more you try

OMGosh how true ! I am two weeks away from my first fill. Just trying to stay to the plan. But it's hard. Very hungry. I need Lots of willpower to get thru these next two weeks. Looking forward to my first fill

I will do this .

My stomach growled for two months. Before, during, and after eating. But it stopped as suddenly as it started.

Try to limit yogurt to 8 oz. at a time. Light and fit dannon 2x protein is my fav for only 80cal.

Love that you and your stomach ARE CONVERSING!! Too funny. : )

My stomach growled for two months. Before, during, and after eating. But it stopped as suddenly as it started.

Try to limit yogurt to 8 oz. at a time. Light and fit dannon 2x Protein is my fav for only 80cal.

Love that you and your stomach ARE CONVERSING!! Too funny. : )

I am so glad to hear that the stomach growling is normal....mine has been talking to me for weeks, except I don't speak it's language yet.

Here's a funny tidbit about that....

I serve as a guide for a blind sportswriter. I went to my first Yankee game serving as a guide last Wednesday since I had the surgery. We eat in the press dining room. I had to find something I could eat besides the ol' stadium staples of hot dogs and sausage sandwiches. I decided to try the salmon they were serving that night. I'm not sure, but I think the salmon didn't sit well in my new, mini-sized tummy.

Somewhere around the fifth inning, my friend took off his headphones (He listens to the game on the radio) as we sat in the pressbox. It is a noisy environment, open to the crowd noise. He turns to me and asks, "What the hell is that noise?" (He actually heard that?????)

I told him I thought that maybe the salmon was deciding to swim back upstream.