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Originally Posted by Fris
i know several people who if you eat too much per meal with the surgery you will be sick.
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It depends upon the surgery...and how restricted you are with the lapband.
I did not have the gastric bypass. I have friends who had that, and yes if they eat too much they get sick. They couldn't even eat chicken for well over 6 months after the surgery...however I could eat chicken as soon as I was able to eat solid foods.
You can also stretch your pouch in both cases. There are many poker pros who have had the bypass surgery here in Vegas. Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, and in fact if you look at Howard you will see that he's gaining his weight back.
There was another pro, you won't know him. Not a tv pro, but anyway he had the bypass surgery and within weeks was pounding down shakes and hot dogs all day long. Went back in for a revision after stretching his pouch out and gaining the weight back, within weeks he was doing it again.
Now with the lapband which is what I have, you have to go in for fills until they get to an optimal restrictive point. Not saying I can eat anywhere near as much as I used to, that's for sure. But you still have to make the right choices of what to eat.
If I wanted to, I could eat ice cream all day long, but I choose not to. I could eat candy 1-2 hours after a meal because I am no longer full, but I choose not to. I am slowly conditioning myself to realizing that I get 3 meals a day, and out of that only 4 oz per meal, and I'm not going to waste that on crap.
My diet consists mainly of chicken *preferably white meat*, salad, yogurt, a lot of liquids, eggs, tuna, and a mixture of other vegetables.
The point is that through all the doctor's appointments I had to go through before this, and that included a psychiatric work up, you are reminded time and time again that this is not a "cure." It is a "tool." And you have to treat it as such.
That's what I'm trying to do. I am like a drug addict when it comes to food. And I know that the surgery did not cure my addiction, or why I treated it like an addiction. But it gives me time, whether that's 1 year or 2, to work on those problems.