Hi all! I am 11 days post op and on mushies. I get full pretty quickly (like 8 tablespoons or so) but I'm hungry again....stomach growling, starving kind of hungry... an hour or so later. I am eating thick Soups, potatoes, pastas, Beans, Protein shakes ... that kind of stuff.

Anyone have any ideas on things I could eat to help me stay full longer? I don't get a fill until May 30 and feel like I'm going to pack on everything I lost so far until then!

Hmmmmmmm....lemmesee

I'm trying to think Protein, since it sticks with you longer. Chili is hardy, it can be any kind, chicken, beef.... refried Beans, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad ground well, liver worst mushed up, really any meat ground would be good at this stage.

Hang in there !!!

Anything with high protien is going to do you better. Chili is good, or even just drink a protien drink before your meal or something. Even a glass of milk?

Or have low calorie meals every couple of hours to stave off the hunger. :confused:

Eat more often. And the thing I still struggle most with with the band is that what feels like pigging out is often still a small enough amount of food to have the weight coming off.

I've lost a lot of restriction lately and really need another fill. I've avoided the scales for two weeks becuase I've been sure I'd see a gain of 2kg or more. I hopped on this morning, I've LOST another.5kg. I feel as if I'm eating to maximum capacity - ie. overeating but obviously not. I guess if I think about it it would have required more food to reach this capacity previously.

Same with mushies. If you add another meal in there somewhere it will help and wont stop you losing.

Long term, I find I do better with the band to eat the foods that are difficult - like bread (as well as including Protein for long term satiety). They stick with me much longer and help me eat far less overall, they take longer to eat and are more satisfying to eat. Soup may be lower calorie or yogurt may be higher protein or whatever, but carbs still perform the function of filling me up and keeping the food sitting there in the pouch, fruit, veges etc on their own I find dont fill me up, dont stop me eating too much at one meal etc.

Try some lite ricotta cheese and some soft fish like flounder.

How soon after your meal are you drinking? For me, if I drink too soon, I'm hungrier quicker. I timed it, 1 hour after the meal is too soon to drink. 1 1/2 hours seems to be better. It's hard to do, because I'm a huge Water drinker.

Here is an example. One day I had eaten, only a tiny bit because I started feeling pressure in my chest. Not 10 minutes after I got up from the table, my stomach started growling like I had nothing to eat!!

I had tuna fish chopped really really fine for the very first time yesterday with extra mayo and I was in heaven, it was wonderful and I stayed fuller for many hours, more like a bandster should.

Thanks for all the replies. I seem to have turned a corner this weekend. I think it's because I can now eat about a cup of food at a time? Maybe it just keeps me full longer? My doc says to wait at least 30 minutes after I eat to drink. I wait about an hour and that seems to work okay. Any longer than that and I am dying of thirst!

Try eating a banana mushed up with a little Cool Whip Free...bananas usually fill me up.