2nd fill today.

We aren't supposed to have slider foods? I'm only 5 weeks out but cottage cheese fills me up. And I have tuna salad almost every day.

Carrie,

I do not consider cottage cheese a slider food at all or tuna.  Cottage cheese is great for us it has tons of protein in it for a 1/2 cup and it has calcium in it also which we need .

I eat cottage cheese all the time my gosh we probably go through 3 cartons of it a week .  also tuna is excellent in protein and healthy as long as you dont put to much mayo on it where it is fattening then :o)

My doc recommends eating cottage cheese instead of starches which there is alot of times if I am low on my protein for the day I will eat my 1/2 cup of meat and then 1/2 cup of cottage cheese fo dinner .

Carrie,

What constitutes a slider can vary by bandster and by restriction. For example:

Kate P. can't eat much yogurt, which is a slider for me.

I can't eat much cottage cheese now, which was a slider for me a year ago.

I can't eat tuna salad at all, not even if I puree it.

I guess it all boils down to what your own body tells you. If you eat cottage cheese for lunch and it keeps you full for 4-5 hours, it's obviously not a slider for you. But if you eat cottage cheese for lunch and you're hungry again 1-2 hours later, it's time to try a different food for lunch.

Jean

Lets also remember it depends when you had surgery and what your fill level is..

Jean it correct it ALL depends...

I have very little in my band and I had surgery 2 years ago so cottage cheese doesn't NOT fill  me up but I on occasion eat a serving of it Fiber One brand for a snack before the gym.

Tuna is fine I get full and I love it but then I have to battle the urge to eat the box of special k crackers.. LOL so I try to eat it more in a salad then with crackers.. but that's just me.

Yogurt is a slider for me too I only eat it as a snack before the gym Carb Master tons of protein and low in carbs and sugar and the yogurt health benefit.

Eating 4 pieces of low sodium of ham and 2 pieces of WW cheese for breakfast fills me up more than a serving of cottage cheese with fruit... but that's just me.

25 lb in 3 months is fantastic!!!!  That's 8 lb per month and expectations are for 1-2 lb per month, so you are at the higher end of that!  That said, your doctor is right about egg salad, yogurt, cottage cheese, oatmeal etc.  They are sliders, but they can still be part of your diet.  In addition, you need to have some dense protein (meat) as part of your meals, in addition to the above.

I eat oatmeal or cream of wheat once or twice per week and eat eggs (scrambled or omelet) the other days.  If I eat yogurt, I add some Kashi high protein cereal to it and it doesn't slide...cottage cheese is great, as a snack midafternoon since it is high protein with some raw carrots.  Same with egg salad...save these slider foods for those snack times once per day, as needed or just have them occasionally.

Perhaps you can give your doctor some feedback about his "bedside manner"...if he is too abrupt, perhaps there is another doctor in the practice that can take your file???

You are doing fine with your weight loss and need to remember the 1-2 lb per week.  Plus, you are the only judge of how you are doing, not the doc.  He's just trying to improve his stats!

Hermosa is 100% right what works for me might not work for you .  All I can do is tell you how I do things and maybe it would help lol.

 I have bags of chips , four boxes of girl scout cookies, ice cream and candy bars laying all around me and I just have no desire to eat them foods.  I never ate them foods before I got banded so even with me having the surgery I just pass them up that is why I can eat all them foods in moderation because they do nothing for me.

Now, when its that time of the month I really really have to watch myself because I do get them cravings for about a week before my period and then after that I go back to normal lol.  So during that one week I kinda eat more then I should of them but I do extra exercise also that week to help counter act it lol.

I feel blessed that I dont have them triggers like alot of the girls on here do.  See like Hermosa said she cant order a pizza because that would cause a craving for her.  I'm the opposite my son has friends spend the night all the time and pizza is cheap and easy meal to serve to 16 yr old boys so I can go and get 5 of them Little Caesar pizza's and not even eat a slice of it or I can eat my one or two slice put the pizza away and my son will fini**** tomorrow.  

Everybody is different on how things are and like what the others have said you just need to find your own way of how to do things :o)

If them foods dont cause trigger effects or you can eat them in moderation then go for it  that is what I do .

the fills are when the dr tightens or loosens the band according to how you lose the weight? I hope I am asking that correctly.

The fills tighten you or loosen  you correct , but just understand the fills DONT make you lose the weight that all has to come from you and you only .  (thanks to Kate for saying that :o) give credit where credit is due ).

All the fills do is aid you in losing weight that is it nothing more nothing less.

some people prefer to keep their bands on the looser side which I'm seeing more and more people doing .  I haven't had a fill yet since my surgery and I go see the doc today and skipping this one also .   I do fine with just the band around my stomach.  I just needed a reminder hey you slow down when you eat, take smaller bites, and you dont need to eat that much.  That is all the band is doing for me right now .  Now, dont get me wrong I do stay full for a good 3-6 hrs at a time :o)  

The band dont chose your food choice, the band dont stop you from eating slider foods (chips, salads for some , ice cream ext), the band dont make you get up and exercise.

And you can overeat around the band .   Some people like their bands to the maximum restriction they can get and others like me keep their band on the loose side and I will always keep my band that way .  I dont want to be at a restriction that I'm scared to go out and eat , or I cant get up and enjoy a nice Sunday morning breakfast with my family, or cant eat a chicken  to me that isn't what the band is designed for and I wont use the band that way .  This is just me and my feelings though and how I do things.    What I do might not work for you though.