:cursing::blink:hi bit of a personal subject but since banding does anyone have trouble with their bowl movements, i am having a bad time every few days and wondered if it is due to the lack of fibre i am eating or the amount of food i now eat. Thanks if anyone has the same or diff and hope this does not offend.

hi,

where are you in your journey? are you on solid food yet? are you having any movement? (remember - liquids in tend to produce liquids out)..

good luck

Previously, I went every day, sometimes twice a day, but since my I have approached my sweet spot, my movements have reduced to around once or twice a week...I think that this is partly down to the quantity of food I now eat! If I'm not careful, I get constipated, and I'm aware of how much fibre I've eaten....

To combat this I take Benefibre... no taste, no texture, no smell and it doesn't turn into a gel in your stomach so it stays down!

I did spend some considerable time taking laxatives, but they're not good to take long term and the fibre is a healthier way to keep everything ticking over!

Hx

get a high colonics my friends swears by them ...she says thay make u lose weight and your belly seems slimmer for weeks

do it good luck

OMG!!!

Have you had one?

Hx

nope im to be banded on the 28th ...but ive thought about it and i would do it if i had poop isuues but i dont so after banding i might do it just for the slimming affect...because everyone will be on my back everyday asking have u lost any weight yet?

I didn't tell anyone that I'd had a band fitted.

My OH knows, a few of my close friends (3!) and that's it!

I've lost 68lb in the 47 weeks since my op... It's slower than I anticipated, but hey it's down and not up! I've lost weight before, so nobody has really questioned my success... it's just Mynie on another diet!

I might consider a colonic though.... been having a look at local practitioners!

I'm not sure if I'll ever tell anyone.... OH says it's nobody's business but my own!

I'm halfway there now and I hope that I'll reach 'normal by my birthday in June! Not target but at least in the realms of =BMI 25!

Hx

my friends says u can lose a few lbs doing it...

oh and go straight home as it could be a long day of reading in the reading room

ROFL!!

Might make that phone call today, as I'm sure I'm a bit 'bunged up'!

okay ..I dont want to sound weird or anything and my doctors says it's okay not to orr, but I was banded on March 25th and no bowel movement since then..4 days later is that normal at first?