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Originally Posted by imwiththebandnyc  Hi!!
^^^^^ Good Idea to see Dr. Ren about these eating issues, it will get sorted out, I can see you are working hard!
Good luck and come by and visit my blog sometime, I am there alot and not on here so much.
take care,
Vanessa |
Hi Vanessa! Will check out the blog.. I am pretty sure this has to do w/ eating too fast. I'm also all over the place some days not feeling much restriction so i can eat fast w/o repercussions and then if i try the same thing the next day no good.
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Originally Posted by stardustic Hmarko, no, my surgeon does not tell his patients the fill amount and I did not ask because it does not really matter to me as long as I have a restriction. I have the 10cc LAP-BAND® as well.
I had very good restriction after the first fill and it subsided after about 2 weeks. My surgeon does not pre-schedule fill appointments and he wants his patients to call once they can eat more food than the size of 2 decks of cards. This is what happened to me, I was able to eat more and was hungry between meals.
I have never been borderline tight and have never PBd but I do get stuck once in a while especially when I eat too fast or do not chew enough. Beef causes severe problems and white chicken meat needs to be chewed until liquefied. I can eat about 3/4 of the size of 2 decks of cards.
When you say that you are able to eat a lot on some days what do you consider a lot?
I learned that I am much tighter after a workout and also when I have a stressful/emotional day and I am tighter in the evening than in the morning and throughout the day.
Sorry that I am writing a novel.
What I want from the lap-band® is that it restricts my food intake to the size of 2 decks of cards max and that the food will satisfy me for at least 4 hours. I assume every one has different needs and there are also people that want to feel extreme restriction and be limited to a couple of bites.
I was very confused about the entire restriction thing for a while because there are so many different opinions on the subject... I guess everyone has to figure out what kind of a restriction works for them... The best thing is to keep the appointment with your surgeon and to discuss the restriction with her. Let me know how it is going for you. |
Do you drink water when you are there? how does that work out? Does it go down in 5 mins ? 15 mins etc? When I was there i was too tight i couldn't drink it at all in 45 mins (little dixie cup) so they took .8 cc's out.. then i could drink it in about 15 mins. Now I can drink pretty fast.
Good question on what do I mean a lot - let me go look at my food journal and I won't count the halloween candy as it is a slder food (I did slip up a day or two).
OK the days I call a lot amount to about 1500 calories and it may not be so much about the calories but how I feel when I am eating ie its just going down ok and I am eating like 4 means a day of more than a cup. Today I'm very tight for some reason.
Here is a good example of a starving day: The day before mind you I got a bit stuck...whatever that is worth:
Unjry protein at 10 am
1pm hummus - about 1/4 cup; 2 wedges toasted pita; 4 oz baked salmon (typically I can only eat the baked salmon)
5pm - was STARVING - so i had had a tuna pouch w/ some olive oil and lemon
7pm home 370 cals worth of crackers and cheese
8pm - grilled chicken (about 6 oz) peppers and onions
THEN I was STILL hungry later
so at 10 or 11 I had the 0% greek yogurt and some flax seed meal.
Total cals 1515 not including any working out.
I won't even get into the next two days which involved PMS and candy (It must have to do w/ PMS) eating more... THEN NOW
Friday 870 cals
Sat 1433 (I drank a bit so that relaxes things and makes it go down - seriously they tell us this)
Sun - 800 cals - I pb'ed filet mignon which i ate more of yesterday and it went down just fine today nope. I had some warm choc unjury and then i just tried to eat ground sirloin and it took me 45 mins. But at least it went down.
We have to preschedule or else we aren't getting an appt for 3 weeks.
I haven't figured out if I am tighter after a workout - today I worked out hard and yesterday too but after the workout I drank ( we had a little party :).
I'm ok with this - I'm just trying to figure it all out. In my support group I think we established that I have the first bite syndrome thing where the esophagus gets tight or something - plus though I am eating 5000 times slower than before its prob still not slow enough nor small bites (they are like 1/2 teaspoon but just now i was at a 1/4 teaspoon since today seems to be a tight day).
I've had probs w/ chicken too but as you see on that 'hungry' day 6 oz no problem. It wasn't dry though.
I'm glad they tell us the fills I would want to know I don't obsess but I want to know how my body handles certain things. I'm going on Friday and I don't care whether i get a fill or not I just want to check in w/ my surgeon because I've been seeing the NP's and i haven't seen her since the surgery. I had to run over there Friday cuz i felt a small lump that i never felt before (not my port) - they checked it out - they think its fatty tissue (size of pea) - and then I was asking about traveling and what to expect in the air... so one of the NP's goes to me you want a fill today - i said no way - I'm not even dealing w/ this one 100 pct.... plus i'll be back here friday right after my trip. So I can always get a date to go there w/ an NP but to see the surgeons we need to plan. So I booked appts a month apart. I'm losing somewhere between 1-2 lb s a week. I'm up and down 2 lbs a lot so w/ that noise its hard to tell week to week.
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