Really need to get back on the healthy eating train. Have to get some band friendly eats in the house!!!

"Band Friendly" Foods, for me, are foods that go down easier without much risk of getting stuck, etc.....Ice Cream is very band friendly...but not good to eat 3 times a day if you're trying to loose weight.

The band limits how much I can eat....and since I eat so little, I need to make the best of what I do eat....So I concentrate of the healthiest foods I can get. I look for Organic, natural foods. Stay away from preservatives, and think about the "Nutritional" value of everything.

When I'm watching TV and pizza Commercials come on, as one of many examples, I now look at them in disgust and ask myself where in the world is the nutritional value there?

I have not eaten Pizza in 4 years...sure I can have a slice. But then I just blew my portion on...What? What was the benefit?

The band will not allow me to eat anything else, limited on the portion size. So I just did myself a big disfavor.

Plus Pizza is not band friendly...like walking through a mind field. All that dough and melted globs of cheese. A food I have gotten stuck on often when I was just learning....so food that is not band friendly, and had no nutritional value for me, it is on my Do Not Eat List.

One of many examples I can give.

I am not on any diet in the traditional sense..don't count calories, carbs, or weigh/measure portions.......I have been set free from that rat race forever....what I do now is simple.

Because of the band, I eat less...way less in a given day. So since I eat so little, I make the best of what I do eat.

And also choose foods that will not give me trouble eating, foods that are a high risk of getting stuck. Band Friendly foods.