I have my surgery date set for tomorrow (March 11th). I am getting very nervous that I will not be able to enjoy certain foods eventually again. I am wanting to enjoy all foods just in smaller portions. I no this is a tool to help control food intake but am nervous to give up (pizza, bread, steak, roast) ect. I know some of these foods have also been the cause of my weight gain, but would still like to enjoy a slice of pizza once in a while, or a small steak, ect. Just wondering if other people have went through this or are going through this same phase. I sometimes feel I am to young (28) to have to give up some of the good foods for life.

(I also posted in the pre-band section, but thought I would get some peoples thought from after they had the band put in)

Thanks

Any comments appreciated.

I've had my band for 18 months and can eat everything you've listed. I can't eat nearly as much of it as I used to, but if I choose I can eat anything.

It all depends on how much of a fill you think you need to find your sweet spot and how that fill reacts to different foods.

I choose to have my fill a little loose and I occasionally get hungry, but I would rather be a bit hungry now and then than to not be able to eat salad, fruit, chicken and other foods that some bandsters have problems with.

Everyone's experience with the band is different but like Lisa I can eat everything you listed, including the bread and pizza. Mind you I have to chew it much MUCH more than I use to and I choose not to eat nearly as much bread as before because it fills me up too quickly but I can still eat it. On the pizza I now order thin crust and will often times eat only about half the crust and then just eat the toppings off the remainder of the pizza.

Good Luck tomorrow and try to breathe.

I am kind of in the same boat, wondering what life will be like after the band. I have heard people having issues with lettuce, chicken etc. Is there anything absolutely off-limits?

I'm only 2-1/2 years out but I haven't found one food that all bandsters have problems with. Most have severly cut back on the doughy breads either like me because it just doesn't taste as good when you have to chew it so much or because they actually have had problems with it feeling *stuck*.

My own personal theory on why some people get stuck on one food but not another is that it really all boils down to how you chew but that opinion is only worth what you just paid for it. (Nothing)

Foods I limit include:

Bagels and other doughy breads like Deep Dish pizza Crusts

Pinapple (Too fibrous for me, but I will still chew it up sometimes then discretely spit out the leftover fibers in my napkin)

pastas & Rice - I still eat these just in MUCH smaller quantities.

Gristley meats such as cheap fast food hamburgers. They taste pretty rank after a while when you are trying to chew them up well enough to swallow.

I eat everything, just less of it. Its trail and error. You just have to see how you do after the band.

I have my surgery date set for tomorrow (March 11th). I am getting very nervous that I will not be able to enjoy certain foods eventually again. I am wanting to enjoy all foods just in smaller portions. I no this is a tool to help control food intake but am nervous to give up (pizza, bread, steak, roast) ect. I know some of these foods have also been the cause of my weight gain, but would still like to enjoy a slice of pizza once in a while, or a small steak, ect. Just wondering if other people have went through this or are going through this same phase. I sometimes feel I am to young (28) to have to give up some of the good foods for life.

(I also posted in the pre-band section, but thought I would get some peoples thought from after they had the band put in)

Thanks

Any comments appreciated.

Thanks for asking...I didn't really think of that until now 6 days after being banded. Good luck. I love pizza and bread and rice and carbs way to much and I am 31 and feel i am too young to give up on them too, but I am willing to have less of anything as long as I can have everything!

Needtolose - Today is your big day! I will be keeping you in my thoughts and wishing you a speedy recovery.

You might have to change the WAY you eat them -- it's beyond weird cutting pizza or hamburgers into itty-bitty bites, BUT, if you want them badly enough.....

Or they might just lose their appeal. Some things I tho't I really LOVED before, just don't taste as good to me as I THO"T they did -- probably because I could slam them down almost without chewing them and now I am actually TASTING them and wondering why I used to eat SO much of something that is just not that good!!?!!