Question for Major Mom (others feel free to answer too!)
Gina -
I believe it was you that once posted that you try to keep your meals small to help preserve your small tummy. When I try to do this too it seems like I am hungry literally only an hour after eating. What am I doing wrong? Does it happen to you too and you just push thru the feeling of wanting to eat?
Do you (or anyone else) have any tips for making small meals work? To look at my plate nobody would ever guess that I had WLS because my plate looks pretty normal. I do not "gorge" like I use to prior to my DS, but my plate certainly looks like others.
Thanks,
Beth
As a DSer, I eat very small meals very frequently throughout the day. I believe Gina eats like this, too - as a pre-op, she told me that she's a "grazer," and that's one of the reasons her surgeon recommended the DS for her. I never really thought of myself as a grazer pre-op, but I've certainly become one as a post-op. I don't do it necessarily to preserve the small size of my stomach; rather, it is a consequence of the small size of my stomach - I can only comfortably eat small portions, and then I'm full. But it doesn't seem to take that long for me to get hungry again, like an hour or two. I guess I just listen to my body and eat when I'm hungry (or try to - sometimes I can't if I'm busy at work or something).
One time, the BF of one of my employees was sitting at the bar at our restaurant, and he made a comment to me about how "much" I was eating. He had seen me sit down to eat dinner, and then about an hour later, I sat down to eat a little dessert (I lucked out, it was a slow night!). It kind of pissed me off at first, until his GF piped up and said, "Tom!!! Did you even SEE how much she eats? She eats like five bites of something, and then she's full. So yeah, you try that and then see if you're not hungry again an hour later!!" That made me giggle, because it's true. My mom, who is a naturally thin woman, eats all day long, every hour or so. I think sometimes we don't have a clear picture of how "normal" people really eat...we're really not so different from them after our DS's.
~Heather~
HW: 249/ CW: 130/ GW: 140
--gina
5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
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DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
Just make sure it is protein. There's no measuring, no counting calories. No such thing as eating too much if you are hungry and your stomach can handle it. As long as what you eat is protein...
Many of us got this surgery so we wouldn't have to go hungry again. Take advantage of the DS benefits.
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DS SW 265 CW 120 5'7"
Hubs took me out to breakfast on Saturday. I knew I couldn't wait 30 mins to eat. Grabbed some raspberries on the way out the door and I was good til eating time. Ate some soup, a couple of fried cheese sticks and then came home and was hungry again. Nuked my doggie bag, had another cheese stick, ... grabbed a cherry tomato off the plant, ... an hour later, ate some yogurt, couple of bites of cheese. Made it to dinner time, ate part of a bear paw burger with swiss cheese, some sugar free freezies. Had a few more freezies before bed. :) Water, water, water... rinse repeat :)