I am having the worst time eating chicken. I love chicken. The breast is my comfort food. Forget about Snacks or sweets or TV or men for that matter. Give me a section of the breast and I am in a 'zone'. Well...that was before the band (May 30th, 2006). I followed the liquid requirments, made it through the mushy stage, cheated through the semi-solid phase but I finally reached the solids section and NO Pleasure. Instead of eating the whole breast on the chicken including the wings I will be content with a small section. Everytime I attempt to eat the white meat I become sick. I went from small bits to strands of chicken and it still doesn't seem to digest. Is anyone else having this trouble with chicken? This is serious to me. My diet is simple chicken, fish, greens, potoatoes, peas and gumbo. Now I simply eat in moderation and don't fry everything. There aren't a lot of things that make me happy but savoring a good piece of chicken breast is one of them. Any suggestions?

230/surgery wt. 219/200.4 current/ 146 goal:faint:

I can not tolerate chicken not one bit, and it been hard because thats all I used to eat, period (the only meat). But now ONE BITE of any kind of poultry (especially white meat) will do me in. It hurts SOOOOO bad, and my lap-band doc thinks Im nuts, now I know there are others like me. I just hate I cant eat chicken anymore, but I live on low-fat beef patties now so, and Im adjusted to eating beef more so I dont even miss the chicken

oh dear, *sigh* yes, i feel your pain.. I LOVE chicken too and i simply cannot eat white breast mean anymore. It just gets stuck and i pb. Also i would advise you not to eat the skin as that caused me great problems. As many wonderful wise people above have told you, if you moisten the chicken, it would greatly improve the chances of you being able to eat it again! (fingers crossed!) Maybe you can make some gravy?

Hope this helps and that you are back eating your favorite chicken asap!

Best Wishes

As I mentioned in another thread here, I have not had restriction yet, or PBs and i'm at 80% of a 10cc band, it's really starting to make me wonder about if the band is on right etc etc.

I can eat chicken, and anything else you can name, and other then one incident with a piece of pizza crust that I didn't chew, nothing has ever given me the "golf ball" sensation. I don't know what to do, because on top of all this, I'm basically an over thinker on most of these types of situations. I will analyze everyone elses restrictions and eating abilities and compare them to my own until I go insane.

I never seem to know from one day to the next if I can or cannot eat chicken. Some days I am fine, others not fine at all. For me chicken is one of those "do I feel lucky today" meals....and my band will decide if I am or not. Go figure!

I haven't had any problems with chicken at all - in fact I'm cooking some right now. I bake it in apricot preserves and Russian dressing and it's so GOOD!!