This is a follow up thread to the posting recently made by Jamilyne. She asked if there were foods that you missed eating since becoming banded. I thought it was a fun discussion.

So, as a follow up, are there any foods that you thought you loved but now realize, not so much?

For me it's hotdogs. Now that we really have to chew, chew, chew our food, you really get the opportunity to extract the flavor from the food. I now think that the actual taste of a hot dog is horrible. I guess pre-banding, I swallowed the hotdog in big chunks and really didn't taste all of the awful fat & byproducts in the hotdog.

Do you have a food that you use to love that you now see it for what it is?

I have eaten hummus just fine - I think that I could get carried away with it because I need to eat like crackers or something with it - just not out of those little single serve packages. Applebees has a 500 calorie and under menu and its pretty good. 500 calories is a lot - but I only eat half of the serving and save the other half - so its 250 calories, which is better.

Are you on my fitness pal? On my fitness pal you log in your food and it calculates your calories. It might help you - I've also added the food in just to see how many calories before I eat it - so you could log your Applebees Green Goddess salad on there and see how many calories it is and then you can decide whether or not its worth it - or maybe you can just have half.

I would suggest having a diary for your daily intake of calories, at least at first. I had no idea how many calories I was consuming until I started logging my food on my fitness pal app. I hope that helps

Thanks for the tip about my fitness pal. That's really awesome. I didn't know that.

It has been a big part of my weight loss. I'm jamilyne1068 on there if you want to add me as your friend I'm glad I could help !

New item for me...

Last night/today I've been suffering from a bad headache/migraine. Been taking pills, coffee for caffeine, etc and nothing was helping. One of my old standbys was a coke. I used to drink them and they'd help. Even though I'm not supposed to have soda I'm desperate today. Could barely get through half of one - too sweet and doesn't taste good!

i used to be a big slushie, icee, soda drinker, now i find that anything with that much sugar is disgusting. my body also rejects most fried, sugary, and chemically processed foods. I do miss things from time to time, like sandwiches, sushi, bread, rice, but just thinking about how long and problematic it will be kills the craving mighty quick