I love soups, but I am concerned about eating soup because of the whole not mixing liquids and solids thing. I have had 4 fills and have 7cc in my band. I finally have VERY good restriction. Maybe too good. I can't drink with meals at all. What do you think about soups?????

My surgeon and dietitian are very anti soup, unless it is a thick soup like chili. They said it goes through the band too fast and doesn't keep you full very long like more solid foods do. Fortunately, I wasn't much of a soup eater, so it hasn't been much of a problem. We were banded pretty close to the same date (mine was Oct 29). Looks like you are doing great!! I am down about 30 pounds right now, all post surgery as my surgeon didn't require any pre-op diet. Isn't restriction great!!

Robin

Im eating soup now. If I eat lunch, 95% of the time it's soup because that's the only thing I can get down. I have uneven restriction, so I'm usually super tight early - mid day, and open after. Lastnight for dinner I had a turkey patty with onions and peas, and this morning it took a good 10 mins to "recover" from a drink of soy milk.

However, the only way I mix my lunch soup with solid food is if the soup has chunks in it.

OMG!! I feel like a new person!! You know that this works for lots of other people, but I quietly wondered if this was just another failed weightloss attempt and my extended family would ask me over the holidays "I thought that band was supposed to make you not eat. You are eating almost as much as me" Oh I got so tired of hearing that.

Then with my fill yesterday suddenly my band works. I get full really fast. I plan to start melting away now!!!!

I hadn't thought much about soup until I started making one for my family for supper tonight. It is very healthy, so as far as that goes it shouldn't hurt, but if I take a drink of Water with a meal it hurts really bad, so I am wondering if soup will to the same????

I make homemade soups a lot, especially on the weekend. I make homemade chicken soup, and it really fills me up. Chili is good too.

But even things like Chicken & Stars (my fav canned soup), fills me up great. And like wheet, for lunch that's about all I can get down. I get soups at restaurants for lunch, or bring a canned soup. With adequate restriction, soups can be filling.

There are a few things different from eating soup, than drinking with your meal. For one, the soup is warm. Why this makes a difference, who knows, seems counterintuitive, but many people find that warm liquids go down when cold liquids won't.

For two, not many bandsters are going to eat a meal, and then want soup on top of it, or during it, which is how you'd make the comparison to drinking during a meal. For most of us, soup is our meal because we're full after it, or to full after regular food to eat soup.

For three, soup is eaten what - a scant teaspoon at a time, especially if it's hot? Whereas most bansters into the solid foods stage are drinking much more than a scant teasoon full at once. Quantity does make a difference.

If eating, and then trying to drink hurts you -- you probably don't want to eat, and then try to put soup on top of it. The mechanics are the same, minus any variables from the heat of the soup.

Thanks so much. This all makes perfect sense. I don't want to eat soup with a meal. OMG I would pop, but I would love to have a small cup of soup for supper tonight. I have just started to have good restriction and right now I am having trouble eating much of anything, so I think I will give the soup a try tonight. Thanks so much.

I eat mostly homemade soups. Veggie and chicken. I have very good restriction and sometimes soup just works better for me. I am losing just fine so I guess it is not hurting me. Donna