Do you eat celery since being banded? I don't like raw celery by itself but I love to chop it up and put it in things like soups, chicken salad, tuna salad, cornbread dressing(which I only eat on holidays). I know the lapband book mentions it as being a potential problem food so I was wondering if I will need to avoid it? Or is it ok as long as it's finely chopped?

Try it and see how you do with it. It's the only way you'll know.

Personally, I don't have a problem with it cooked or raw.

i ate celery and peanut butter once. i tolerated fine. like missy said you try it and see. i don't think any food is restricted except high calorie foods. but some ppl don't tolerate food the same. i can't for the life of me eat deli turkey weird i know but it's on my avoid at all cost. also left over meat. i don't care how moist or if it is smothered in sauce i can't tolerate cooked meat reheated.

Celery?....No.....as well as other fruits and vegetables....vegetables better if cooked and not hard, also skinless with some fruits...

Peanut Butter?...in my smoothies at times, along with other ingredients...

But you have to experiment based upon your bands feedback...many people here can do things others cannot not, and vice=versa....

Some people can eat raw vegetables....some cannot

Some people can drink carbonated drinks...some cannot

Some people need to crush their meds - pills....some do not have to

Some people hungry all the time, some are never hungry, and some in the middle....

And the list goes on and on and on....

The more you read these posts, the more you see just how different people tolerate and react to different things......not sure if there is a right or wrong, just what you and your band can and cannot do, along with your Doctor aware of every step...

Of course, if your considering calories and dieting...then that's another area altogether...I'm speaking of the band only...

I'm good with cooked celery, but always "de-vein" it if I want to eat it raw.

When I had my band, I could not eat it raw. But if I saute'd it then I did just fine.

never been a celery girl.......and if i ate veggie soup, it was left in bowl

I don't tolerate any fibrous fruit or vegetable: celery, leeks, pineapple (a big no-no for me), too-ripe peaches or plums (the stringiness makes these stick). ripe mango...