Oh S#!T..I ate it all!!!

Last night I made myself a lean cuisine pot roast with broccoli dinner. Before I knew it, I had ate the whole thing!!!! I was really scared until I read the back of the box and realized that it was only 130 calories and 4 grams of fat, but it seems like I can eat so much now. On the good side, I stayed full for hours I don't know about you all, but I am always scared that I will start eating too much. How much are you all able to eat these days? ((((HUGS)))) Dawn

Some day's I am feel like I eat like a normal person and think OMG I am stretching my pouch. But usually that is followed up by a day of not really wanting food at all. I think it all even's out in the end. I have asked a few of my friends that have never had a weight problem and they said that that's what happens to them. Some days they are ravenous and others they don't want to eat at all. We just need to make sure we get in the protein. Good Luck!!!!

Hi Liz I always make sure that I get in the protein!!! It's nice to know that I am not the only one who goes thru these eating stages. ((((HUGS)))) Dawn

I can eat 3 to 4 ounces 3 or 4 times a day with one snack. I was eating nothing but bacon and cheese. I found out I was still hungry. The only reason for the bacon was I have a bad craving for salt. For the last 3 days I have had turkey breast and about 2 ounces 2 times a day with about 1 ounce of cheese twice a day as well. I had to start measuring my food because, I could eat so much. I think my pouch has stretched. I can eat 6 ounces. But I do not try. If I realize the oh **** I ate 6 ounces I freak and do not let it happen again. It all depends on your body and your surgeons rules. I started out at 314 and was at 190.8 at my 6 month post op. I do not weigh unless it is at the docs I have no scale and be damned if I will pay that much for a scale. I do wonder if I gain. I just want my goal which is 130-135. Good Luck. Sounds like you are doing good.

Good job Regina!!!!! We started out at the same weight and at my 6 month mark I was at about 199. I don't think our sucess is based entirely on how much we eat but also the food choices we make. Believe me some days I catch myself eating all day and others I don't eat at all . I think WLS is a tool that helps us make a lifestyle change but it's up to us to maintaine. Believe me I know pleanty of "thin" people that eat way mor than 6 oz's a day but they make the proper food choices. Melissa

Way to go to you as well!! It is alot harder than what people think. They take one look at you and say hey skinny(sarcastically). Well skinny my left foot. This is a very difficult process. You are 100% correct it is a tool!! I would love to let people who are mildly overweight to know that they need to stop now. Do not ever let yourself become super or even morbidly obese. It is pure hell!! I was doing really well until Easter and I had to try candy. What a fool. I did not get sick so that made it even worse. Not that I could eat it but the challenge of wishing I should not have done it and I would never have known. I do not want to brage like some that I can eat sugar. It is something that I do not want to do and wish I would have never found out if I could or couldn't. Way to go with your loss. Does this not feel great. I love to cross my legs and just look in the mirror and see one chin and I am tickled to death that I can set in my chair at work and breathe normal and not feel cramped. Before I would just be miserable sitting or moving. I am feeling good. My kids like the new me. I can play with them. My son tells everyone they should have the doctor blow you down like my mom. Take care, keep up the good work!