Hi all, I am only on my second fill since being banded end April 2008 and I have a great deal of restriction. I am having real trouble with meat of any sort but can eat plenty of vegetables, soup and yoghurt.

I am keen to perservere and not get a partial unfill but I need meat and want to be able to eat what I have preapared for everyone else.

Should I stick with it and lose weight more rapidly or get half a ml taken out? I have been losing weight very slowly up until now.

I love my lapband as if it was my dearest friend but don't want to be anti social or have to bring it all back up if I have pushed it too far.

I would be kken to hear what others have done. Many thanks:blink:

why not just replace the meat, with soy, products like tofu, is very good and high in protein,and easily digested, it is much better than meat.

Wagga Wagga is in coutry New South Wales Australia and until I moved here I had my doubts about its existance as well!!!! A large inland city we have a university and feed the rest of Australia with a good supply of beef, sheep, canola, wine, apples, oranges and most other food groups. A great place to live and visit.

Yes Jack, there really is such a place. Just make sure you pronounce it Wogger Wogger and not Wagger Wagger!

Actually Crushbro, unless you have some really rare medical condition, you don't need meat. What you do need is Protein, which you can get from vegetation. Soy has already been mentioned and there are heaps of other things you can do.

At the end of the day, if you simply have to have meat, then why not have it minced? You may need to face the possibility that you'll never have a piece of meat again, while you have the band.

I hardly eat meat, and was taking an iron supplement as well as eating healthy food. My iron level has drop to 3 and now am on iron injections, appartently this is common for people with banding to have low iron. (maybe not as low as mine) I strongly suggest taking you iron supplement and eating high iron food. Still after 5 years I would not remove my band.