WHAT FOODS GETS STUCK or give you problems?

[Anewme! 0]

Hi! I have read so much on this forum and really need the info but wondered why foods "stick" if you are chewing 30 times. Can you not eat bread because of carbs or you can't process it? Are these foods off limit forever or just in the beginning? I cancelled by-pass surgery in May but sounds like you still have the same limits with potential digesting problems. Also, what does PB mean?

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Pb stands for productive burp. Basically, it's just a polite way of saying

puking. Sometimes it is like a burp, but food comes with it. Sometimes, it's

regular heaving like you have the stomach flu or something.

[Anewme! 0]

so basically with gastric by-pass you have dumping and with banding you PB. Great!

What is sliming? read about that now?

What about my other questions about bread, etc.

[TerriDoodle 6]

bread sometimes swells and gets stuck for people. I dont' seem to have any problem with it the few times I've eaten it...but I don't risk it very often. Same goes for Pasta and rice. Don't know why.

If food gets stuck your stomach will react by producing massive amounts of 'slime'...which is really just like a thick saliva...it doesn't have any taste. So you've got your pouch full of food and the slime produces very quickly and it has nowhere to go but up....so you have to spit it out. The whole process is not much fun so we try to avoid those foods that create these problems. Besides, BPing irritates the pouch and once you've PB'd you tend to PB for another day or so unless you go to fluids and mushies.

Still.....all things considered...I LOVE MY BAND!

[Anewme! 0]

From what I'm reading you have lost 65lbs. since 4/4. Awesome! I want to know EVERYTHING you did. I plan on giving this my all, especially if I can have results like you.

When I went to by-pass support group they said one day they could eat something and the next day it could make them "dump". Sounds like the band produces the same results.

[TerriDoodle 6]

From what I'm reading you have lost 65lbs. since 4/4. Awesome! I want to know EVERYTHING you did. I plan on giving this my all, especially if I can have results like you.

When I went to by-pass support group they said one day they could eat something and the next day it could make them "dump". Sounds like the band produces the same results.

No. My starting weight was 215, current weight is 195 and goal weight is 150.

Dumping is far more serious that PBing.... I suggest you learn more about it. Personally you couldn't pay me a million dollars to have a bypass. But that's me.

[Tracy Bower 0]

:hungry: chicken was a big problem for me had to have my band opened for two weeks. doctor said had five patients had the same problem so he is advising no CHICKEN:hungry::think so now i eat alot of fish.

[travelgirl 3]

any deli sliced meat. OWWW!!!

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Dumping is completely different than pbing. My daughter has the RNY (bypass) When she eats anything with sugar in it and sometimes things that have fat in them , she gets very sick. It dumps too much insulin into their systems and they get sweaty, light headed , dizzy, nauseous, and usually diarrehea

People can ususally eat bread until they get a tight fill. When I had 2.0 in my band, I was able to eat a small hamburger with a bun. Now that I have 2.5 in there, I am having so much trouble eating, that I haven't even tried bread. I don't want to cause myself problems. So far, nothing has given me any trouble because I take tiny little bites, and chew until it's liquid. I had a quarter of an apple today, that got stuck for a little bit, but not bad. I didn't throw it up or have any slime.

When something is stuck, it feels like a pain where your band is until it moves out of the band into the stomach.

People with the bypass still pb too. by the way. They have dumping and pbing and sliming just like bansters. We just don't have the dumping syndrome.

[Merced 0]

RICE (every time)

eggs (more often than not)

FISH (more often than not)

DRY chicken (sometimes)

[blytheswideshut 0]

RICE! every time.

[TerriDoodle 6]

Isn't that strange about rice? I haven't tried it because SOOOO many people have that issue. But I just fine it odd it's one of the foods that cause so many problems. Steak's ok, but not rice?? Weird.

[cyndilou29 0]

Doughy, sticky bread type things for me. I had a piece of a cinnamon roll that was literally half the size of my pinky nail and I was stuck all day. Soft bread - same thing. Crusty bread I can do though. Go figure.

[dolphin_dreams 0]

• salad
  
• chicken
  
• some breads

[newme460 0]

I eat everything and have only had something get stuck twice. Both times, it was when I was in a hurry, not thinking, hungry, and standing at the sink gobbling down a big bite of tuna and cottage cheese. It was because 1- I took too big of a bite, 2 - I didn't chew. I eat tuna and cottage cheese all the time and only had problems on those two occasions.