Meal ideas/Portion Sizes/help!

[pinkypunk9 1]

Hi all! I was banded on May 28th so I'm about 3.5 weeks post op. at 3 weeks post op I was able to start reg foods. I'm just looking for ideas on what people typically eat? Also portions! I notice that I eat about 1/2 what I did before being banded, but it still seems like too much food for being banded. I am guilty of not always measuring. The only thing I really have trouble w is bread- but only occasionally. I've been "stuck" twice- ugh. Horrible feeling! Any advice will be helpful! I go for my 1st fill July 4th.

[donna12 742]

if you are only 3.5 weeks post op and getting stuck, please be careful as you don't want to vomit and tear stitches or have your band slip. You are still healing. I too have had my share and plenty of people on here will tell you, of stuck episodes, plenty and most I say most were due to not eating properly. By that I mean tee tiny bites and chewing the heck out of it. This past Sunday morning before church I was eating a hard boiled egg and toast and I'm not sure whether my band was being finicky cause pills that morning went down kind of hard or I took too big of bite but I got stuck and here I sit telling you this 1 year and 1 week post op. It's a learning curve on how to eat, still learning. We are so used to gobbling it up and shoveling it in or at least I was and thinking it was my last meal, sheesh, now I taste food for the first time in my life and enjoy it for what food really is, nourishment. Do I cheat, of course, tonight I met a fellow bandster, local, for the first time, she and I were so excited that we met on here and we lived close to each other so we met up and went for a treat, we got frozen yogurt, yes it was low fat but that was my treat for the day. do I do that every day, no, but it was great to have that treat tonight along with great company. I eat to live now instead of living to eat. Your portions should be about 1 cup.