How's your restriction?

T Hagalicious Rebel
Brown

on 8/24/19 11:03 am - Brooklyn
VSG on 04/25/14

For me, I'm pretty tight. Ok I had gutter thoughts for a quick second, lol. Sometimes I look on the menu thread on a different forum & am amazed about how much people can eat years out. So I'm wondering if most people still retain most of their restriction even years later.

I already know newbies will still have their restriction. I'm just curious about those further along.

No one surgery is better than the other, what works for one may not work for another. T-Rebel

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The Salty Hag
on 8/24/19 11:45 am
RNY on 05/20/13

I CAN eat quite a lot of food, but I try to avoid it. Some days though, my pouch seems like a bottomless pit...and that's avoiding slider foods.

I've never understood how random small pouch days vs big pouch days are with me. Some days, I'm pushing my plate away after 4 bites. Other days, I think I could hoover up an entire rotisserie chicken in one sitting.

I woke up in between a memory and a dream...

Tom Petty

T Hagalicious Rebel
Brown

on 8/24/19 4:03 pm - Brooklyn
VSG on 04/25/14

Haha, hoover up a chicken! Now my imagination is running wild. I've been eating this pot pie, it's small but I still have to eat it in stages. I think it's all that breading & I usually don't eat carbs in the form of bread. Sweets however is a whole other story.

No one surgery is better than the other, what works for one may not work for another. T-Rebel

https://fivedaymeattest.com/

(deactivated member)
on 8/24/19 12:06 pm

Lol lol ... I asked 4 a large pouch believe it or not ( cuz my favorite foods r salad n veg ) then TOTALLY regretted it .... wanted a DS ... I still have very restricted days but I graze .

I suppose I can eat anything ... looking good in a bikini n being active during the summer when I used to hide is a great incentive also jes wantin a brand new life and a real chance 2 achieve my dreams .

White Dove
on 8/24/19 2:30 pm - Warren, OH

While I still have big and small pouch days, for the most part, I could eat as much as any person who did not have surgery. For me, restriction is less every year.

Because. I can eat, does not mean that I do. But I miss the earlier years when overeating was physically impossible. I still need dense protein to be full on a small amount of food.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

Cathy H.
on 8/24/19 2:54 pm, edited 8/24/19 7:54 am
VSG on 10/31/16

I was told when I had my surgery my new sleeve would ultimately hold 8 oz (by weight). I am almost 3 years out, and that is exactly right. I can eat 8 oz, but if I try to eat any more, I'm in pain. I usually try to make my meals 4-6 oz of protein, depending on the day, and the rest fat and good carbs (still Keto), but no more than 8 oz.

Livin' La KETO Loca!!
134 lbs lost since surgery, 195 overall!! Initial goal reached 9/15/17, (10.5 months)!
5'3", SW*: 299 GW: 175 HW 3/2015: 360 PSW* 5/2016: 330 *PSW=Prog Start Wt; SW=Surgery Wt

M1 -31, M2 -10, M3 -15, M4 -16, M5 -8, M6 -6, M7 -11, M8 -8, M9 -8, M10 -4, M10.5 -7 GOAL

T Hagalicious Rebel
Brown

on 8/24/19 4:06 pm - Brooklyn
VSG on 04/25/14

I'll have to try that out. I haven't weighed my food since my early days of weight loss.

No one surgery is better than the other, what works for one may not work for another. T-Rebel

https://fivedaymeattest.com/

White Dove
on 8/24/19 3:20 pm - Warren, OH

I was told 8 to 12 ounces is the size of a fully mature pouch. That seems about right to me, but I have never actually tested like you did Cathy H.

I am definitely going to weigh a whole meal and see how that measures up to my pouch size.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

(deactivated member)
on 8/24/19 3:48 pm

Sneezing makes m stop eatin also Rolling On The Floor ( swearing I'll NEVER do it again in the case of sweets ... dumping in shorthand )

Cathy H.
on 8/24/19 6:29 pm
VSG on 10/31/16

Livin' La KETO Loca!!
134 lbs lost since surgery, 195 overall!! Initial goal reached 9/15/17, (10.5 months)!
5'3", SW*: 299 GW: 175 HW 3/2015: 360 PSW* 5/2016: 330 *PSW=Prog Start Wt; SW=Surgery Wt

M1 -31, M2 -10, M3 -15, M4 -16, M5 -8, M6 -6, M7 -11, M8 -8, M9 -8, M10 -4, M10.5 -7 GOAL

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