5-day pouch test? Please advice on how to

I am curious about this 5-day pouch test I've heard about. How accurate is it? Where did it come about?
If you've done it please post and let me know how it's done and what results are shown by doing it.
I am not certain yet its a pouch test I need as some days, depending on the "time of the month" I feel I can eat more and some days I eat two bites and I'm hurting full. Weird.

Thanks for any input!

I googled it for you....I have done it...If you can do it for 5 days it does work.....The 1st time I did it I lost 5+ pounds......I bought the book.

Good luck...Kelly

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Why do I need to take only 15 minutes for meals? My center told me to take 30 minutes for each meal.
Many bariatric centers recommend patients take 30 minutes for meals. Some even instruct patients to use a stop watch and time 3 minutes between bites of food. The reason is to slow down the eating habits of the recovering morbidly obese person. After some time patients who comply with the 30 minute meal rule tend to be able to eat more and often linger over the meal, even though satiation has resulted. Consequently they eat more food, particularly if they are not following liquid restriction and using liquid to wash the food through the pouch.

During the pouch test a person is following the liquid restriction and eating a high protein diet. By limiting the time to eat to 15 minutes one will enjoy the satisfaction feeling that is the desired result of a gastric pouch. The following is from the Gastric Bypass Owners Manual from Alvarado Hospital:

Understand Satisfaction:
"When you feel satisfied you are finished. Don't get trapped in the belief that you have to eat everything on your plate, or that you can't possibly get by with that small a meal. Your meals will be small, and they are supposed to be small. If you feel full and satisfied and you try to eat any more you will begin to feel nauseated and you may throw-up. The point is not to see how close you can come to nausea. Learn to eat until satisfied and to avoid getting sick."

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Thank you so much Kelly for looking this up for me! It sounds very interesting and doable. A lot like going back to square one.

I would love to hear others stories about doing the 5-day pouch: what they discovered and how much they lost.