To all apples: UP YOURS!

I am having a bit of a low blood sugar episode, 72, so not too horrible, but I do have the shakes, so.........trying to make better food choices, instead of eating candy or drinking sugary fruit juice, I decided to have an apple. Or at least part of an apple. I get a few bites into it, and now I'm stuck as hell.

To top it off, my sugar still hasn't come back up yet, and I can't eat or drink anything yet. :frown:

The reason I am looking forward to the band is that dieting has not worked for me either. I totally understand that the band isn't magic and won't to all the work, blah, blah, blah. I just want a chance at some normalcy. I have gotten down to a normal BMI (about 12 years ago) and it just made me into a HUNGRY SKINNY B****CH. I want to be a skinny not so hungry B****CH!

Travel girl you are too funny

Hehe - apples are the one thing I reach for if I'm having trouble coping with the hunger pangs. It is absolutely guaranteed to make me feel completely full for hours. I do have to be supervigilant while eating them though, and chew chew CHEW!! I've gotten uncomfortably close to getting stuck on them with only the smallest of unchewed lumps going through, so really have to pay attention - coz even that much HURTS!

I am lucky I can eat apples without any trouble as long as I chew very well. I am always on a quest to get more fiber in my diet. I have to say

though, that it could take me an hour to eat an apple.

I have to be very careful with anything that has a skin that's difficult to chew into small pieces, like apples, cherries, grapes, etc. If they've been peeled or cut into very small pieces, they go down with no problems.

I have to be careful too, but it would defeat my purpose if I took the skin

off. I have constipation problems all the time not matter what I try to do

to get more fiber in. I know calcium can cause that problem. I can't win.