I am so excited yesterday was my weeks post surgery and I'm down 24 lbs .

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Yayyyyy!!.. congrats

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Wow, congrats!

My 4 week appt was yesterday and I am down 32 pounds. Yay to both of us. I also get to move on to tuna and chicken in the can. I am so excited. I am still not able to eat more than 2 spoons of anything tho. Getting most of my needed nutrients from shakes still.

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Third week post op 25lbs down. Finally get to eat mushy foods and tuna and canned meats. Love yoplait Greek 100 yogurts in all flavors 14g of Protein each. Tolerating foods well. Only thing I'm battling is getting all my fluids in otherwise I'm good

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Well done. Had my op today.
What protein shakes do you use?

I'm so confused when I hear about band patients being on liquids and purees for this long. My doctor had me off of liquids and directly back onto solids within 6 days. I asked him about it that last time I was in - why do some doctors have their lap band patients on liquids and purees for weeks? He said it's not necessary - they do it because their patients come in looking to lose weight, and being on a liquid diet will do that for you. So they jump start their patients so they feel the surgery is a massive success, when it's really them eating the liquids that's doing a large portion of it. Meanwhile, their patients are hungry, bored and frustrated.

He did acknowledge that with a bypass in particular, they must do liquids for much longer until their sutures heal or it could break their stomach open if they transition too soon. But that there is no such danger with the band. Now,.... I'm not saying I agree or disagree with him - I'm no doctor and I've only had this one procedure. So I have nothing to compare it to. But I'm able to eat normally except for being on a low carb diet, and sometimes have swallowing issues where it feels stuck until I can get it to pass. That seems to be becoming less and less as time goes on. I'm only a month past my surgery, though.

He never had me on any protein shakes, either. Nothing except real food. I now take no liquid calories - it doesn't fill me up, doc says. Only foods, and don't overchew or it all just winds up sliding through the band and you're hungry again. It should take about 6 minutes of regularly-paced eating for me to get full. I've never timed it, and I'm eating slower because of the food getting stuck occasionally. But yeah - I stop eating long before my family does now.

I'm a bit floored by how different all of our experiences are. Make you wonder who's right, and why they all do things so differently.