Quick Lapband Serving Size Question

wednesday02
on 11/1/08 12:07 pm - Sanger, TX
I had my lapband surgery on the 20th of November.  So I'm still in my mushy food phase.  But I have read some conflicting information and would like to make sure I'm going about this the right way before I go further in and do something wrong.

In the initial instruction binder that my surgeon gave me, it said that you need to eat 1/2 - 3/4 cup per meal, 3 times a day.  But in my Post-op package I received at my first follow up appt, I read that you are supposed to only eat 2 oz per each meal.  So a total of 3/4 cup per day.

A 2 oz meal just seems EXTREMELY small to me and I'm not sure how a human could actually live on so little food.

Which is the ideal amount of food to eat? 

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer!


Erin
knickerbocker
on 11/4/08 3:11 am - MI
Different doctors say different things.  From what I have been told is that a meal for a bandster at a good restriction level is 6 to 8 oz fo food.

I am a week post op and I had about 6oz of soup for lunch and I am good. 
wednesday02
on 11/4/08 11:06 am - Sanger, TX
Yeah, the 6 - 8 works for me too. completely satisfies, but when I read the 2 oz guideline, i was just shocked and didn't see ANY way that would work :)  Thanks for the response!!

EB
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