Curious!

I am preband and I love carbs for Breakfast, toast, Cereal etc, and I know I may have to change that after banding.......

Hot Tea to open myself up so my meds won't come back up on me. I then take Fiber Choice, Max Strength Antacid for Calcium and my Flinstone Vitamin. Then Low Carb chocolate Slim Fast while I put on my make-up and fix my hair. Then I eat thinned Cinnamon Weight Control oatmeal with one sweet n low packet. I love me some oatmeal in the morning.

I use to not eat Breakfast in the morning at all, so this is a total turn around for me. I feel so much better spreading my food out through the day and my metabolism has awaken from the coma I had it in for years.

My sleeping patterns has also changed since I have been banded! I use to force myself to roll out of bed at 10:00 am then stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning. Now I wake up at 8:00 am ready to get up, and I usually am ready to head to bed no later then 11:00 pm.

Has anyone else noticed a sleeping pattern change since banding?

I can eat breakfast but I have to be careful. That's why I still look at Protein drinks - they go down, and actually do keep me full. I'm going in for another fill next week so we'll see after that.

Never was a breakfast eater, but need all the metabolic help I can get.

maryb - no sleeping change at all.

I go to sleep around midnight or half past, and wake up around 6:20.

Can someone tell me why a banded person can eat toast and not bread?

tia

Every morning I have an Atkins protein shake...I like the Creamy Vanilla. That holds me until 11:45 or so...my dietician keeps saying to eat solids, but that just doesn't seem to work well for me.

I've started eating Special K -Protein Plus cereal. I think it's new...at least it's new to me. I use fat-free Lactaid as the milk. It is yummy and is easy for me to get down in the morning.

OK then, just learned that no scrambled eggs for me.

Damn, I guess that leaves, cheese, yogurt or nothing.

Zone Perfect Protein Bar....especially love the Chocolate Raisin Almond...yummy!!

toast works cuz it breaks down into a smaller crumb and tends not to glob together like regular bread.

on breakfast, i'm strictly a coffee girl. my doc's in the same practice as saul and julie and they definitely don't push us to start breakfast. for me, breakfast just means adding another 200-300 cals to my day. i don't tend to eat less if i eat in the morning. my first meal is usually 2pm or so, then snack at 4, dinner by 8, bed at midnite or 1am.

I'm a former "no breakfast" person. Now my favorite Breakfast is a high-Fiber Cereal with milk, yogurt and fruit:

1/2 cup All-Bran Xtra Fiber (one serving has 13g dietary fiber)

1/2 cup low-fat milk

1/2 cup nonfat plain yogurt

1/2 cup fresh fruit (berries are my favorite; occasionally a banana)

235 calories, 18 g Protein

one cup of cream of wheat with 1 oz of skim milk and 2 tsp of sugar if I have time and want something hot or I'll have a container of fat free yogurt. I had 2 eggs scrambled with a little bit of cream cheese and it upset my stomach soemthing fierce. I love breakfast.

I still love my carbs for breakfast and I function and feel best when I eat a reasonable amount of carbs. If I ate just Protein for breakfast I'd be dizzy and lacking energy by mid morning, it just does not work for me.

I stick to low GI carbs - muesli, good wholegrain cereal, oatmeal, heavy grain toast with Peanut Butter, I like some tinned peaches or apricots on my cereal, that type of thing. Sometimes if I'm not hungry I do skip breakfast though, so much to do in the morning and it goes by the wayside.

Interestingly I feel less unwell when I skip breakfast completely than if I have a totally protein based breakfast.

I cannot eat before 11 am!!!!

Optifast powder Mix(strawberry), 2 scoops of beneprotein, 1 scoop of benefiber, 7 ice cubes, 1 cup of Water. Blended

Scumpsious

I have a double cup of Carnation Instant Breakfast in the morning around 6:30 because I usually do get to eat lunch til about 2 then my dinner around 7