OMG I ATE 1/2 AN EGGROLL LAST NIGHT!

I HAD TO TRY AN EGGROLL LAST NIGHT AND WAS ABLE TO EAT 1/2 OF IT WITH NO PROBLEM. I KNOW IT WAS WRONG BUT I JUST WANTED IT SO BAD! THEN TODAY AT LUNCH WE WENT TO LOCALLY OWNED MEXICAN PLACE AND I ONLY GOT 3 TINY BITES DOWN BEFORE I FELT THE TIGHTNESS IN MY CHEST AND KNEW I HAD BETTER STOP. THEN MY FULL BUTTON WAS PUSHED. I AM SLOWLY LEARNING TO DEAL WITH "POUCHY" AND I LOVE IT!! THANKS FOR LETTING ME CONFESS!

I have eaten the "guts" from an eggroll.  Leaving the almost intact shell really confused the server.  He was worried I didn't like my meal!  Yummers!  I also had a few bites of beef and broccoli.  Good sutff!  I was really worried about nmot getting that Chinese food fix not and again.  The good thing is that I got to eat it 3 times from one order!  Enjoy!  We aren't on a diet but a life style crusade!

yeah i like the 3 meals from 1 now. i got beef with broccoli, carrots and a little cabbage mised with some kind of yummy sauce. ate some last night and gonna eat some more tonight and maybe for lunch after church because my bunch like to eat braum's after church and i think the salad would go to waste. also i get that pizza topping tomorrow night. woo hoo!!

I didn't eat salad until I was 4 months out, but your surgery might be different. Raw carrots killed me, and I still won't eat them!

I can't wait to eat the guts out of a steamed shrimp dumpling from PH Changs!!! My mouth is watering! 

Eggrolls, ah~ The one Chinese food item I never could make myself eat again.  I'll pretty much everything else under the buffet lights, though lol.  Glad you enjoyed it and I'm definitely not slapping no one's wrist cuz me and the Lord know about all of my slip-ups through the years lol.  Thing is with the "pouch" (I'm an RNY, so I'm sure it's a bit different), you just never know from one time to the next for a while what is gonna set it off... it's almost like a guessing game when you eat.  It gets interesting, to say the least.  Happy eating and even happier losing!

I have a band-I eat the guts of an eggroll all the time.

Try to remove "right/wrong" thinking....you wanted an eggroll, you ate 1/2.  Prior to surgery, I could eat four or four eggrolls and some rice as a meal.  Now I eat the guts out of 1/2 of one and that is all the "space" I'm going to alot for cabbage(I do love cabbage) but the rest of the space is all shrimp baby!  (Or scallops)

My parents love to eat at the chinese buffet, and I do get some weird looks when I go there due to my debreading of everything, but I ignore them.  Even debreaded, I can't eat half or even a quarter of what most people put on their first plate....so they can kiss my bootay if they don't like it.

Deb - how is your retreat weekend going?

I just had a spiritual food experience-I ate toast.

Bread is the bane of bandsters, and I just never gave it a try.  However, the sticky property of bread CAN be used for good-IF the toast stays down (and it will) it will take forever to move through the pouch.

One of my goals for this weekend and before my next Dr. Visit is to revisit some foods on my don't eat list.....because many of them are helpful to weight loss and a lot of what I've been calling "solid" food is not.  So, as soon as it was allowed, I tackled the biggest and baddest of them all-bread.

So, what I learned is I CAN eat bread .....if I take very small bites and chew slowly.....hmmmmmm, isn't that what I'm supposed to do anyway?  Bread just requires the bites be even smaller-different size bites for different foods.  Wow.

I have a Master's degree with a 3.96 overall gpa-and at 47 years old, I have learned to eat toast....and even more importantly, I've learned to eat one small piece of toast (with a little help from my band.

My February Flu, constant puking and resultant unfill really did a number on my head as far as eating, and I think it's pretty common with many WLS types who have sticking problems.  We just get afraid of solid food.  But the liquid stuff goes right through and will not give you satiaty or however you spell that....LOL.  

I've had other good experiences, but this is the one of most value to the board! 

 

As soon as I feel brave enough I am going to PH Changs and eating some of a steamed shrimp dumpling. OMG they are so good.