Thinking about how I ate before surgery

z_m14
on 7/22/16 4:20 pm
RNY on 07/05/16

I was thinking about how I ate before my bypass, and it's crazy to think how I ate food like it was going out of style. 

I used to be able to eat a sub, fries, six slices of pizza, and three cans of Coke in one sitting. Now, I have one scrambled egg and am full for hours. 

If I kept eating like I always ate and didn't have this surgery, I fear what would've become of me. I'm happy I am developing new healthy eating habits! 

Deanna798
on 7/22/16 5:03 pm
RNY on 08/04/15

It really is amazing to compare how we used to eat with how we need to eat to survive. On a bad day I eat half of the food that I ate before surgery.  

Age: 44 | Height: 5' 3" | Starting January 2015: 291 | RNY 8/4/15 with Dr. Arthur Carlin| Goal: 150

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. ~Proverbs 19:20

jenorama
on 7/22/16 5:08 pm - CA
RNY on 10/07/13

Isn't it crazy to remember the amount of food you used to be able to put away?  I remember getting a large sub sandwich from Togo's, two bags of chips (one for each half, yanno) and then a cookie for dessert.  And of course a Coke Zero.  Gotta save calories!  

Jen

Sharon SW-267
GW-165 CW-167 S.

on 7/22/16 5:11 pm - PA
RNY on 12/22/14

Right back at you.  My old eating habits scare me.

Sharon

z_m14
on 7/22/16 6:36 pm
RNY on 07/05/16

It's embarrassing, too, because I used to indulge like this in a restaurant, sometimes. 

It feels good not to have to eat a meal for ten to feel satisfied.

Sharon SW-267
GW-165 CW-167 S.

on 7/23/16 1:25 am - PA
RNY on 12/22/14

I agree - I often ate this much and was not full.  I would try to eat like me thin friends at a rest - slowly, take some home, hoping that I would feel satisfied - not stuffed, not overfull, just not hungry.  They say if you wait 20 min, you will feel full. Not me - when I got home and was till hungry, I would have the leftovers. Thank God for WLS.  (Not that it can't be improve, but I'd be heading for a wheelchair without it)

Sharon

Vinasu
on 7/23/16 3:46 pm
RNY on 08/10/16

Ha!

I used to do the same thing--box up half my meal because all my friends were. Then, I'd either stuff it in my face the second I got home, or even eat it in the car!  

 

Neesie57
on 7/23/16 8:01 am
VSG on 08/04/15

My worst time was after my husband went to bed.  I would stay up to sew or watch TV and would search for food to stuff in my face.  It was always strange combinations of crackers, bread, jams, jellies, peanut butter or butter and anything else I could find that tasted good at the time.  Sometimes I would eat a half a bag of shredded cheese, or two or three yogurts at a time.  

Thank goodness I don't do that anymore and the most I eat at night is a sugar free popsicle.  

5' 5" tall. VSG on August 4, 2015/ Starting weight 239.9/ Surgery weight 210.9/ Current weight 137.4/ Goal weight 140/ No longer overweight, now a NORMAL weight. Now that I'm at goal, it's time to move on to maintenance!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

H.A.L.A B.
on 7/23/16 8:48 am

I was seldom a volume eater. It was sweets - cakes, cookies, candy bars and lots of fruits... Lots and lots of healthy fruits..  

I used to rather healthy fat person... 

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

Jevelynne
on 7/23/16 9:16 am
VSG on 10/26/15

One big plus for you right now is that you SEE how it was and what it needs to be now!  That means you know that going back to old habits like that will do you no good.  This is a life change and the first change is in your head!  GREAT JOB!!! 

HW: 299   SW: 277.2   VSG: 10-26-2015  Dr. Brian Gluck
Dr Goal Weight : 182.5 Hit Dr Goal 7-23-16
New Goal Weight: 170

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