Confession (Long!)

Ok dearies...I am already developing a very bad habit that I have to curtail immediately! I am just 23 days out and I am overeating already. Some of you may remember my story, that it is not eating junk food or snacking that got me here, it is portion control and lack of exercise and I am clearly not making the changes I need to make to be successful long term. The last two nights for supper I have either eaten the right amount too fast or eaten too much. Either way, I have ended up with an uncomfortably full feeling. I didn't feel like I was going to be sick, only very very bloated and uncomfortable for hours. I went to bed and woke up fine, but still a bit full actually. The night I ate too fast, it was just a half cup of protein pudding I made and it went down too easily and too fast and was very uncomfortable. Last night I ate 5 ounces (!!!) of fresh trout poached in chicken broth, 1/4 cup of baked sweet potato and a 1/4 cup of fresh steemed green beans. Delicious and healthy but too much food for 3+ weeks out! And my pouch knew it. I ate it a bit too fast and didn't give myself the time to feel full. I stopped when I did feel full, but by that time I was uncomfortably full and 10 minutes later I was REALLY uncomfortably full. So I am posting this for accountability purposes. I need to weigh and measure my food before I put it on my plate and slow down my eating. Do you think 3 ounces of protein is too much at this stage? What about my sweet potato and veggie? Is a1/4 cup too much? I know my pouch is susceptible to stretching at this stage and I don't want that to happen, though pre-surgery the amounts I am eating would have been great! But not this early post-surgery.

And in case you think I am avoiding the exercise issue, I am not. I should be walking I know, I know. I just hate it. I think I will use my peddler today and see how that goes. And I do plan on joining Curves as soon as I get to Michigan. There is one a half-mile from my home and church. Since it will be a whole new life and schedule, I plan to start day 1, by getting up, getting dressed and heading out to curves first thing in the morning EVERY morning..6 days a week. I bleonged to Curves a few years ago and while it was always a struggle to get there, I actually didn't mind it once I was there, and I felt great afterward. I stopped because I had knee surgery and never got back to it.

So that's my confession. Thanks for listening. xxoo

no more than  a   third of a cup   for now  Terri  that is what the book says
so the protein should be no more than   1/4 cup   2 to 3  table spoon  potatoe and veggie

try that for a while and  that maybe a bit too much for your pouch   but that is what my book says

some times thing s  like soup  go down easier  because it slides right thru  but  right now pudding and other things  get stuck  a little

It hurts  means that your tool is  working  correctly   Listen to it  and follow the book more closely if you have any questions.

I  still  dont get in much more than  2 ounces  protein at one time  with veggies  and potato   but i can get in  more   salad or watermelon as that mushes up to water.

You are doing great  and  being accountible.
Have a great day!!!!!

OHHH, Dearie, I"m so sorry your having a hard time.  although we've had different WLS I understand how easy it is to get off program and get frustrated.  Remember, this, the Dr. changed your stomach, NOT your brain, and the brain is 50% of making this work.  Remember it is a tool that "YOU" and only "YOU" can make work.  This has been so hard for me to wrap my mind around.  I dont' understand how so many people can have wls and make it work.  where diets didn't work.  How did they get so much willpower?  Will they have it forever?  When will mine happen?  I think your absolutly right when you say, put what your suppose to have on your plate and eat it.  Walk away... I can't really talk, cause I've been so unsuccessful, but I have been eating well and healthy.  Exercise comes and go's for me, and yes I hate it also.  I don't understand why I am not loosing weight.  So, as you go thru this, I can only say one thing.  Do the best you can with the food and eating, BUT, work on your Brain.  Why do you want to eat more? is it being board, stress, being alone?  figure it out and work on those triggars.  I only wish you the very best and I want this to work for you.  You've gone thru so much to get it done, and I want the rest of your life to be wonderful, like you deserve.  I love you TErri, Many Honks and Hugs, Cheryl

Terri.....sorry you've had a rough couple of meals!  I agree with the other posts....measure and slow down!  I know I was raised to "clear" my plate before leaving the table, so measuring ahead of time is a REALLY big thing for me now.  If it's NOT on my plate to begin with, then I don't feel like I have to clear my plate.  This early out, we were told 1/2c of food, total, max....more like 1/4 for me at 3-4 weeks out.  It's really good that you know why you are getting the feelings that you are getting, we ALL have to learn to listen to our new bellies!  And, as Cheryl said, wrapping our brain around the fact that we aren't really hungry in our pouch, just in our head!  It's a really hard thing to grasp!  (at least for me!)  Listen to your pouch, go by your nut's recs and you'll do great!  Remember to go slowly and chew, chew,chew!   Honks and hugs!!!!!  Ruth

DEARIE...we have all been there!  I know I have for certain.  Our pouches are all different as is our surgeon's directions.  At 3 weeks out I was still on protein soft foods.  I didn't add veggies until week 6 when I could tolerate more than 1/3 of a cup.  When in doubt I always go back to the basics of eating only protein and soft protein at that (fish is soft protein). 
Change is so difficult and how do you change a habit you have had for most of your life overnight with surger???  I'm still trying to adjust my brain. 
Take care & I'm always willing to listen.
Stephanie

back at cha DEARIE.... please pull out your blue notebook....there is one page that gives you the quantities of food you should be eating right now.  I'd share...but a friend has my book right now who is researching WLS.

Let me share with you about me and excercise. I hated it. I resisted it. So I gave myself permission to not deal with it at the beginning. The most amazing thing happened....after I started feeling better and less overwhelmed - I just started doing it, without even thinking about it....ok....almost even enjoying it......what's up with that?  It also helps that the same dog who honked my car horn when I was having tea with you that day 'cause she was ready to go - gets at me when I come home to go for a walk. In two months I've gone from barely being able to walk 50 feet to being able to walk 2 miles. Give it time, you still have a lot on your plate of life.

I forgot about that dog! I need one of those. Any chance of puppies??? LOL

LOL...no, no chance of puppies....she's been fixed.....but she is appearing nightly between 6 and 6:30 on the footbridge in Belfast.