:help: HELP!!!! I work at a place where the kitchen is right across the hall from me. They're having fried chicken, mashed pot., string beans and yeast rolls for lunch!!!!! I've been smelling it all morning. :hungry: I eat with a group of friends and they'll all have this lunch. We eat in my office every day!!!! None of them know I've been banded. I'm only 9 days out and my dietician has told me I can have mushies but fried chicken isn't a mushie!!!!! Help me get my head on right before I cheat!!!!!:help:

You can tell your friends that your stomach is queasy today and you don't feel like eating much. Then you can go and have some mashed potatoes, and anything else they may be having that looks soft.

You won't cheat because the pain will be too much to bear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eat the mashed potatoes as that is a mushie. Move the rest of the food around, but don't eat it. String beans will probably be hard to eat as well. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yeast roll. Butter for the roll would be considered a mushie.

You can do this.

They wont even notice- IF they do tell them the queesie stomach and thats why your only eating mashed potatoes. It ALWAYS smells better than it tastes!! Dont risk your hard earned surgery!!!

I agree with what melindam2 says, try the mashed potatoes, it is soft and won´t hurt your stomach, but avoid the yeast rolls...it will hurt your stomach pouch. You will be fine!

Mashed potatoes are mushy. Chicken can be a mushy if you're able to get it wet - e.g. remove the skin, shred the chicken, and stir in some mayo for instant chicken salad.

If that's not an option, then can you find a way out of it? You have a meeting, you aren't feeling well, you have an errand to run... ?

If you're still in the mushy stage, then this is a little beyond cheating and into disregarding medical recovery orders. Trust me - that's somewhere you don't want to go. Lots of badness can happen. You need to make sure your tummy has time to heal.

Thank you all!! I think I'm going to hold out and not have anything at all although it does smell SOOOO good!!! I'll just have my isopure.

I've been psyching myself up in the last few minutes and telling my head that this fried chicken, pot and rolls are what put me here in the first place. Even though they're inamnimate objects......I WON'T let them win. I think I could stomach the pot. but I have a problem with starches....I always want more!!! So I'll just stay away from all of it. I'm looking at this as one of my first major trials in this pursuit.

Thanks for all your support!

Lynn

You go girl, I'm proud of you. Keep that mentality and you will be in the size you have been waiting for. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!! Don't forget to go for a walk with or without your friends, keeping busy will be key.

Thank you all! I did it! I made it thru lunch with my Isopure drink and SF jello. I kept thinking.....it's just food and about how much better I already feel without all that sugary and fat food in my body although I haven't lost but 4lbs. since the surgery. (17 lbs.total with pre-op diet)

I'm so glad this board is here. Without you all, I might have jumped right into that pan of mashed potatoes!!

Lynn

Just curious...since you haven't told your coworkers about being banded, how are you explaining isopure & jello for lunch? I'm a closet bandster too, but I just avoided any "social" eating situations until today (1 month post op).

Congrats on skipping the chicken. That smell can be very tempting.

HMMMMMMM ......:bandit just a little white lie :heh: :heh: :heh: I told them that my liver enzymes were outa whack and the doc. placed me on this liquid diet for a month to get them straight!!!!!!:heh: :heh: :heh:

He did place me on this diet pre-op.to shrink my liver......so it's not totally a lie. Before the pre-op diet I had already began eating Lean Cuisine, not finishing the lunch or having yogurt ... so to them it looked as if I was already on a diet. Hopefully when I do begin to eat again, they won't notice the amounts have reduced too much. It's already been mentioned that when I get off these liquids how I'm not going to be able to eat very much at first. They all agree that I'm probably going to have a hard time readjusting and feel sorry for me at lunch. I HATE that! I don't want or need their pity but I know if I told them that I'm banded that I wouldn't get the support I need.

Hi Jack and everyone else. Thanks for your support! I'm coming to the point that it doesn't bother me at all to have people eating around me. It's like food is just something I can't do....like drugs...I'm not going to partake, it's bad for me. (Now that smell of fried chicken got to me this morning though!)

I have another hurdle tom. morning but I don't think it's gonna be a biggie for me. I'm on the comm. here at our office to provide snacks, breakfast, etc. ever so often to the entire staff of 70 or so. We're having biscuits, fruit trays and I've been asked to bake 3 cakes! I'm known for my delicious ( if I must say so myself) cakes. OH MY!! 3 cakes to bake tonight and can't touch a one. Oh well.... just have to remember that $16,000 I laid out last week and it'll keep me away from even tasting.