I'm from MN and I've just begun the process involved in order to have surgery. I had my first visit with the nutritionist yesterday. She was telling me about clogging and foods that I will probably never eat again. It was very eye opening. I'm not sure if she was telling me this because it's true or to scare me to make me think about if this is really for me or not. Any thoughts?

It is true for some. It depends on how tight your fill is. I have been banded for almost 5 months, had two fills, lost 71 pounds and have been able to eat everything I have attempted to eat. That doesn't mean I choose to eat some things like bread very often, but that's more to do with the nutritional value than it sticking in my band.

For me, I don't want to be so tight that I can't tolerate a lot of foods. Of course I can say that because I'm still losing at the restriction I have. If I wasn't losing I might feel differently.

71 pounds in 5 months! That's amazing.

My sister had gastric bypass 4 years ago and was surprised when I was telling her the differences between the two procedures.

I've lost 63 pounds since Jan 24th

and I had my first fill 2 weeks ago

I have good restriction

no problem with foods so far.:blushing:

The truth is you wont know what foods suit you until you're banded and even THEN it changes over the course of your journey.

I can eat anything if I want to eat it badly enough. I generally avoid junk like McDonalds etc because truly those burgers are murder to try to get down and they are highly likely to result in vomiting or extreme discomfort. I dont even like stuff like that anymore becuase I mentally associate it with unpleasantness and therefore my tastes have changed. Believe me, you dont sit round pining for the Mcdonalds you can never have again.

but if forced, if we're there at 6 am on the way to our annual holiday (we always stop at the Bairnsdale Maccas on the way to Eden for any other Victorians!) I can always have a coffee, a hash brown, a salad if its lunchtime, and I can eat the nuggets. So no biggie, I can do Maccas in a pinch.

I can eat bread, but its 1/2 a sandwich now, not a whole one.

yet ice cream, which every bandster seems to love, gives me intensely painful stomach cramps because of the coldness.

You adapt and its not that hard. Its a lot more scary from your side of the surgery. But its nobody's experience but your own so nobody can really tell you what you will and wont able to eat.