i know that we each are different, but i am curious to see how we are all reacting to different foods.

i have 7 cc's in my band and although i do pb often, (just got restriction), i have only found a couple of things that i cannot tolerate:

captain d's fish----- that was the most awful experience of being banded. i did not pb, i ate 1/2 fillet of fish and 2 french fries, 5 minutes later (everything went down fine), i'm drooling, unable to breath, and have a for real vomit. not a pb. i'm now completely turned off by the thought of fish....from captian d's.

mcdonald's cinnamon melt---- ok, so i know that i am not supposed to have these. i used to eat them at least twice a week before surgery and i had not had one since. well, this morning, i'm stressed over my son (sick) and running him a around, and i stop at mcd's to get him a sprite, and i fall to my weakness and order one of these. well, that was an hour ago, i only had 3 bites, and i am still sliming.

turkey breast lunch meat------ almost as bad as the fish incident

other than that, i can eat chicken, steak, hamburger meat, lettuce, cheese, bread, oranges, bananas, green Beans...everything that i have tried.

what about you? ---you may want to share you restriction level too because that makes a difference, i am pretty tight right now.

I haven't found any foods that I can't eat.

I've only 'slimed' once (and purposely did a PB in respsonse). A few days after a fill I was back on solids. I went out to eat with a friend about 15 minutes after waking up. I got some noodles. Since I had just had a fill I wanted to be safe and eat something I knew would go down easily just in case since this was my first fill with real restriction.

Well, the noodles clogged up good and I slimed for the one and only time. I got a stuck feeling and it wouldnt go away. After a few minutes of feeling awful and it not going down, I went to the bathroom, leaned over the link thinking I would spit out maybe a piece of noodle I hadnt chewed good. Instead, a few bits of chewed up noodle came out and a ton of clear mucus. So gross. It was like a huge drooly blob of clear slime. Yuck.

I instantly felt better though and was able to continue eating although I chewed my noodles to liquid for that meal. I'm tighter in the morning. I've gotten a couple of stuck feelings since then but only for a few seconds.

My biggest problem now is that this is the point in a diet where I would normally fail and quit. The band won't let me though. I've been eating pretty unhealthily lately... I'm still losing though. The band is working well for me. I keep the Protein up, but I keep giving in to bad choices. When I follow the band rules, I lose 3 pounds a week. Eating whatever I want I lose 1 pound. I need to get back on track. I think I'm falling into my old habbit of thinking "It's been a bad/hard/long day, I will cheat tonight to lift my mood". But then it takes less and less of a bad day to get me cheating.

Oops! Sorry, I got way off track!! I haven't been on here much lately...

CHICKEN!!!!! mY GOD DOES CHICKEN GET STUCK NEARLY EVERY TIME. I also had an extremely painful episode with grilled tuna. I can eaat bread only if it is toasted for some reason. Small amounts of rice are not that bad. I got like 6 cc's in a 10 cc band after 2 fills. Mornings are a no no for solid food. fI am thinking of buying stock in slim fast since it seems to be a staple of my diet. the one thing that amazes me is beef jerky. I have absolutely no problem with beef jerky as tough as it is. MY worst pain ever was with a piece of fried chicken. I have not even got the nerve to try it again.

chicken is a big problem for me also, I eat a lot of tuna (but the can stuff.. not grilled). About a week after surgery I chomped down on a pretzel. Talk about PAIN, I almost had a near death experience! Haven't done that again. Someone suggested turkey sliced very thin and I did ok with that. For those of you drinking Slim Fast.. do you get the low carb stuff? I'm trying to stick with the high Protein, low carb diet and that stuff is actually quite good. Better than Atkins but Atkins is drinkable.

Down 30 lbs since Oct 24. Still haven't figured out how to put that Weight loss ticker on my profile.

yes I only get the low carb slim fast. It contains the Iron that my body needs. the chocolate one is my favorite flavor.

you are so right about beef jerky. I can't get enough of the beef or turkey jerkey. I know buy the individual packet from costco and carry a pack with me.

I just got filled a couple of weeks ago (my 3rd one) and it was too tight. I was on liquids for the 2 days afterwards, then on the 3rd day I couldn't even get Water down. So an hours drive from work back up to the doctor to get a slight unfill.

I think I'm at my 'sweet spot' now (after his unfill), but I do find myself being lazy and eating things I know I won't have a problem with. My main foods are skim milk (with or without Instant Breakfast), cottage cheese (but that can hurt now even if I chew chew chew, cheese stix (for some reason, those go right down).

I'm having problems with eggs now, chicken, lettuce, ANYTHING with flour in it (it just SITS there). Before I could eat maybe ONE piece of pizza as a special treat. Now it's so painful and the sliming has me off pizza (maybe for the rest of my life).

Impulsive grabbing something to put in my mouth, not chewing enough and NOT eating slowly are still my worst enemies...

i'm pregnant now, so some of my intolerable's may have just been morning sickness..but i have determined that i absolutely CANNOT eat bread.

Hi everyone. Im not a big poster so I thought I'd change that by jumping in here. I have problems with a few foods... here's my list

Breads (unless chewed so well that its not worth it to eat it)

Yams

Green Beans

Scrambled eggs (boiled works - go figure)

Dry meats (anything cooked too long wont go down)

Most noodles (unless the sauce is really slippery)

There are still a few things I havent tried yet like Shrimp - because I"ve heard its a problem food. Past that most things are tolerated well.