Cottage Cheese Test

Im gonna do it this weekend... anyone tried it and found out their pouchy size??? Im curious... Signed Chatty  See below It is suggested that the Cottage Cheese Test be performed at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and yearly thereafter.

1. Purchase a container of small curd low-fat cottage cheese. Begin the test with a full container, and perform the test in the morning before eating anything else (this will be your breakfast on that day). 

2. Eat until comfortably satisfied, but complete meal within 5 minutes or less.  The idea is to fill the pouch before there is much time for food to flow out of it.  Note that the small soft curds do not require much chewing. 

3. Stop eating when comfortable, but not stuffed

4. After eating your "fill" of cottage cheese, you will be left with a partially eaten container that has empty space where cottage cheese used to be.  Starting with a measured amount of water (8 ounces, for example), pour water into the container of cottage cheese until the water is level with the original top level of the cottage cheese.  Measure accurately.

5. Voila! - the amount of water poured into the container is the functional size of the pouch.

If this is your first time doing the test - DON'T PANIC. You are likely to find that the "cottage cheese" size of your pouch is way bigger than your surgeon told you he/she made it at the time of surgery.  Dr. Flanagan's data indicates that the average size of the mature pouch by cottage cheese test is 5.5 ounces.  He has also found that sizes ranging from 3 to 9 ounces have NO IMPACT on the person's success in weight loss. 

HMMMMMMM I've never done this...but am thinking of doing it....I hate cottage cheese tho.....  But I am at the point that I wonder if my surgery even did anything for me....I mean I lost weight but been stuck at 160 for months and months...I can eat anything and everything.  I need to get back to basics...see my post about 5 day pouch test....nuf said.  LOL

Hey! They said thick oatmeal can be used if'n ya hates cottage cheese.  Lets do it and report this weekend results!

OK DEAL!!  I'll do the oatmeal....I love that stuff.  My guess is no extra milk then to thin it out....Will do...I hope this works...I feel like such a failure.  Maybe this will help me get back on track!

yea make it cottage cheese consistancy cool Im excited!  Ill bet youll be surprised how small it still is.

Saweeet!!! More to come next week then.  I hope I'm suprised.

Good idea!  I am amazed at how much I can eat, except for really dense foods.  Seems like a waste of good cottage cheese, though, to add water to the container.   I'll report back!

Linda - where'd you find this?

Hey... Its a website called...    www.pfamos.com

This is cool, but I am like Linda N.  Seems like a waste of good cottage cheese.  I think I'll do this, but place some cottage cheese in another container and marker where the top is and then do it so I don't waste whole container. Think I'll try this tomorrow.