What is your typical diet for a day in the life of a lap bander? What are some of your "usuals" or "go to" foods? I'm having problems with so many food items that I'm looking for new menu ideas...

Tonight, stuffed red peppers. Last night, Salmon and salad. Friday night, taco salad.

Baked Salmon often when hubby is home (he makes it look so easy; it moist and flavorful... but for the life of me I just cant cook it: it just sucks)!

I like the sweet & spicy tuna in the pouch. It's like 90 calories and I add about 2 TBLS low fat mayo. It keeps me full the longest.

Also I marinate chicken breast overnight and cook them in the steamer; helps them stay really moist. I will do 3-4 breasts and after cooking weigh out 4 oz portions then ziplock them individually.

Baked catfish is good but not as filling as tuna or salmon.

Breakfast is either a Protein shake or scrambled eggs.

My new favorite (a banded friend turned me onto) is jumbo lump crab meat! I add it to hummus, laughing cow cheese, scramble eggs, Soup, or just weigh 2-4 oz pure crab meat and eat....yumm

4-6 boiled shrimp keeps me satisfied for hours, but have to chew very well.

Charbroiled oysters.

(Seafood is a staple b/c I live on the coast)

Snack: laughing cow cheese with cucumbers

you can eat salad? I can't eat any sort of raw veggies

Salads are one of the easiest for me to eat. We all want to help you so if you could elaborate on why you can't eat veggies and fruit? Are you too tight, do you not chew enough or small enough? Do they make you ill?

Help. A little bit after eating a salad with small chicken bites I have the worst chest pain into back. No relief in any position or after drinking pineapple juice. Is this stuck food or heart attack?? Kinda freaked. Anyone have this experience or know what's wrong? Please text me if u can as I never know if someone responds to my threads. 507-840-0387....

Help. A little bit after eating a salad with small chicken bites I have the worst chest pain into back. No relief in any position or after drinking pineapple juice. Is this stuck food or heart attack?? Kinda freaked. Anyone have this experience or know what's wrong? Please text me if u can as I never know if someone responds to my threads. 507-840-0387....

Sounds like a stuck episode. BTW-If you want people to respond to your comments, you should start a new thread/topic. Only the few people who follow this topic/thread will see your comments. You can expose your comments to many many more if you create your own topic. Creating a thread within a thread is called hi-jacking the thread. It's not all that bad but you seldom get many responses with a hi-jack. You'll experience more success with a new topic.

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you can eat salad? I can't eat any sort of raw veggies

Fruit is the hardest thing for me to eat. I can do veggies although eggplant can cause me problems.

Eating fruit and vegetables definitely get stuck, I don't always get sick but I get major chest pains... Unbearable... I seriously try to take small bites and chew the way I'm supposed to, they just don't go down well... At all! Just yesterday I took a small bite of pineapple... Then I was done for the night, I have honestly pretty much stopped trying

Oh and I'm definitely not too tight, I had all of the fluid removed from my band in August... Also question for you all... Can you drink at all when eating? I know that we aren't supposed to, but are you able to? If I take even a sip of water while eating I get sick... I thought that we just shouldn't drink because it washes the food down... But for me it's the opposite, it brings it back up!! I have a really bad attitude now about my band but I want to make changes, I want it to work, most of all I want to feel healthy and not regret my surgery..

WheelCrazy... why don't you try the 5 day pouch test, then gradually begin reintroducing foods back into your diet.

I might help you feel back in control and during the pouch test remember all the reasons you got banded in the first place.

---just don't give up!