Here's how to start filling up

“You try to eat better, and eat less, but sometimes it's just so confusing. Here's how to start filling up.”

A couple of quick tricks to start eating better are to always choose a small bowl or salad size plate. It makes it tougher to overfill that way. Another good method is to start by filling your dish with the healthy stuff. 

Edited to add. The OP has deleted half of her post so my reply does not make sense. To see the original post, see lower down this thread where I quoted it.

I assume this is advice for people with bypass. It is not good advice for people with bands  

Hi,

It would be impossible to touch on every person's issues and generate a quote for them all.  Everyone needs to apply these as they see fit.  Some will help some folks and some won't.  

Indeed. But I think that for newcomers to surgery reading this, it is imprtant to make that clear. 

Not only have you given a no-protein example, by suggesting putting fruit to the bottom and cereal in top, you are implying carbs first which I thought was not sensible for several reasons. 

This is good advice for pre-surgery weight loss.  Most pre-ops have to have some kind of documented weight loss history and/or have to prove they can lose some weight before approval.  Portion control is a huge problem both before and after surgery.  It's not a bad habit to learn prior to any surgery.

Indeed. So maybe it might be helpful to specify. So this advice is for pre-surgery and for certain people post-surgery.

I do not think this is good advice for pre-ops either.  As a pre-op I filled up on protein first so I naturally cut out carbs.  I  also worked on stopping when I got full. This prepared me better for a post op life because I got used to enjoying the company of people I was eating with and not worrying about what and how much I was eating.   

Not good for bypass either since we are supposed eat protein first.

I think sleeve people eat protein first as well and restrict carbs. So not RNY, not the band, not the sleeve!

Terrible advice for bands, RNY, VSG and DS - none of us are encouraged to have meals with no protein.   Fruit and cereal would make me VERY sick!

It worries me when self-appointed experts, such as the OP, is giving such bad advice - new people here could easily fall for the so called "credentials" and believe she is some sort of WLS guru