When were you able to eat breads & pasta?

mommy2318
on 4/9/09 12:47 am

I know that bread and pasta are the foods that are most intolerable with lap band, but I'm just wondering when ya'll found that you could eat them again. I'm only 2 weeks 2days post op so it will be awhile for me. I'm just curious!

Jean M.
on 4/9/09 1:19 am

Revision on 08/16/12

So far, never. I was able to eat them as a new post-op, but the more fill I got in my band, the less I could tolerate them. They almost always get stuck, so I don't eat them now.

But my band is quite fickle. Even though I have great restriction (at 18 mos post-op), I can eat some foods (like scrambled eggs) now that I couldn't eat earlier on, when I had less fill in my band.

Jean

Jean McMillan c.2009-2013 - Always a bandster at heart
author of Bandwagon (TM), Strategies for Success with the Adjustable Gastric Band & Bandwagon Cookery. Bandwagon for Kindle now available on Amazon. Read my blog at: jean-onthebandwagon.blogspot.com

mommy2318
on 4/9/09 1:30 am

Lap Band on 03/24/09

I actually just started eating a pureed diet on Monday and thankfully scrambled eggs are ok. I can't wait to have things like salad but I have been wanting a sandwich and hate that I may never be able to tolerate it.

soulsister
on 4/9/09 1:49 am - NY

VSG on 11/08/11

never

Height-5'6 .5 primed/ 1st fill: 11/18-2cc /2nd fill 12/16-2cc=4.5cc total in 10cc band/3rd fill 1/12 1.5 cc=6cc / 4th fill 2/9= 7.25 /5th=7.5/ current: 8cc in 10 cc ap band
Pre-op wt/ wt 1 wk b/f surg/ wt at surgery/ current wt /goal wt
224 217 213 175 155

KLTTX
on 4/9/09 1:59 am - DFW, TX

Lap Band on 01/16/08

I can't eat them either. Early on when I had little restriction I could but now that I have some restriction (I need a fill), I can't eat bread, pasta, or tortillas.

10 cc band - 2/27 - 4 cc; 4/10 - 1.5 cc; 5/21 - 2 cc; 11/19 - 1 cc; 7/8 - .5 cc = 9 cc total

mmsmom
on 4/9/09 2:15 am - Woburn, MA

I am at 3.2 in a 4 cc band and can still eat pasta with no trouble. However, tortilla wraps are a no go, as well as soft bread. Can eat 1/2 a bagel with all the soft dough pulled out and then toasted. No rice at all...it's ugly!

O2BThinAgain
on 4/9/09 2:21 am - Austin, TX

Lap Band on 04/21/08

Tortillas are out of my diet forever and most bread as well. I actually was able to get some very well toasted, thin sliced bread down but I had to eat it very slowly. For the most part I avoid bread. Useless calories that I can save for other useless calorie items.

Shannon -- Stop whining and do it

kerniec
on 4/9/09 2:27 am - Dayton, OH

VSG on 07/22/14

I am a firm believer in the "don't try to eat what you know your body doesn't really need" idea.

So, I can eat brown rice, whole grain pasta (very very carefully and only a couple of teaspoons worth).

I don't do white pasta, white rice, or regular potatoes except on rare occasions. I can technically eat a bite or two, but generally don't bother.

BREAD - none, ever, they wanted me to try healthy bread, I did twice, thin and toasted and it was a No-go, I am not going to try a third time.

I am pleased that the band makes those choices easier for me not to eat.

275 SW 8/5/08LB 165MW 2009-11, LB complications 2010-14

7-22-14 Revision LB to VSG 212SW/192CW/159GW HT 5'7"

hopeinarizona
on 4/9/09 2:30 am

Lap Band on 02/27/09

I am only 6 weeks out and have had one fill and I just don't even try bread. It may go down OK, but it sits like a brick and actually hurts. I will eat Wasa crackers for a bread fix and I also can do a corn tortila, but I don't do pasta or rice. My weight loss is rather slow, so I just figure no bread or white carbs is est anyway.

pineview01
on 4/9/09 2:39 am, edited 4/9/09 2:40 am - Davison, MI

Lap Band on 02/25/09

I was just told by the Nut at my 6 week check up that I can have them at 6 weeks. I had pizza the night before my first fill. But, the pizza I had isn't like the chains. It is a very, very thin almost toasted crust. It also has tons of topping. It was no problem, unfortunately. (I was hoping it would be a problem)

BAND REMOVED 9-4-12-fought insurance to get sleeve and won! Sleeved 1/22/13! Five years out and trying to get that last 15 pounds back off.

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