Eating with a DS: A Day in the Life (pics!)

Okay, even if I was considering a DS...to me, that's about twice what I normally eat now. I can't begin to imagine eating that much. I'm glad you are able to do it but that's way so over the top for me. And I haven't even had surgery.

If you can manage, that's great. It's not my way of eating.

Liz

Liz, to each their own. In fact, there are many DSers who can't eat what I can.

I hope you find a surgery that compliments whatever style of eating and portion sizes you enjoy. I really think being able to live long-term with whatever you choose makes all the difference in terms of maintaining. 

Best of luck.

I think we are very good at deceiving ourselves as pre-ops.  If you were only eating half of what this OP ate in a day, you wouldn't be needing WLS would you?  I'm also taking into account that you are from the south (images of Paula Deen's cooking come to mind.)  You are on a weight loss site, and we all got here from overeating.  If you are obese, you are eating too much.

People seem to think they became obese from eating 1300 calories a day, and it doesn't work that way.  Good luck in remaining delusional:)

I have to interject here.  I ate 1000-1500 calories a day, only organic, only whole foods, no preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup for YEARS and was still 100 lbs overweight.  So no, not everyone is overweight from eating too much.  I could never eat an entire pizza, I didn't eat fast food or drink soda.....I was literally overweight since birth.  A lot of women, specifically with PCOS, are like me and spent their entire lives eating very little and never losing a pound.  For me, it was not just the restriction but the metabolic changes that the DS allows that made the difference in my ability to lose weight.  This is literally the first time in 38 years it's been possible for me. 

I cannot eat as much as Jenna now and I eat more complex carbs than she does (we malabsorb those at the same rate as protein) and I've also been very successful with my surgery and am 7lbs from my goal.  Even with the DS - the journey is variable and one has to find what works for them, as she said.

Same here. I also ate between 1000 and 1400 cal/day in much the same way for YEARS. I was almost OCD in measuring and weighing portions. LOL I still am!!! I've exercised regularly for years, kept my blood sugars within a healthy range for a type 1 diabetic, cholesterol...nothing seemed to move the weight more than about 5 Lbs a year, if that much.  

I chose RNY because it fit me the best. So far I'm happy with my choice. I'm losing slowly and steadily....key word is LOSING!! LOL 

 I am curious if there is any research on or where I can find info on how much complex carbs we really absorb? Here you say we malabsorb the complex carbs at the same rate of protein and I have heard that we only malabsorb 10% of complex carbs and none of simple carbs. Can you please send me some info or links to research about this if you have any? 
I am 13 years post op DS and I am just learning for the first time about "carb culprit" I had no idea it was possibly the cause for my gas and diarrhea which I have had daily for 13 years...I have gone a week moderating my carbs and not my fats and I have been gas free and almost normal BM's. 
Wish there was this much community when I had my surgery originally!

Thanks,
Allison
Pre-op 368
CW 240
Lowest wt 160

As far as I know, there are no studies because no one wants to crap in a bucket and have people pick it up every day.  It's a best guess for protein and complex carbs.  Diana Cox breaks it down in the DS math on dsfacts.com.  The guesstimate for complex carbs is 40-60% malabsorbed and about 60% of protein.  It's different for everyone but I think that's a different issue than what can give us diarrhea and gas. 

Here is the ds math link with where Diana got her 'break down':

http://www.dsfacts.com/ds-math.html

I'm with Krissy that not everyone suffers from fork-in-mouth disease like you. 

I have to disagree. Some of us have such messed-up metabolisms that we simply CAN'T lose weight, even on a thousand calories a day. If that's true for Southernlady5464, then she needs a form of WLS that will make a dramatic, permanent change in her meatbolism---like the DS does.

Of course, she won't be getting the DS, because she doesn't understand it.

MsBatt, you were right at this point in time, I didn't understand it. I do now. And am scheduled for the 24th.

See my other answer for more details.