'Fess up! Do you really take that small of a bite?

 
Along the lines of "if it works"............I still use smaller plates and bowles when I eat. The theory is that if you see the plate looking fuller you will consider more of a meal that "where the hell is the rest of my food!", lol. Psychological trick there but hey, it may actually work b/c my husband was telling me that when he went to the buffet and filled the plate with salad that is would sometimes fall off the edges, so he got a bigger plate..........but he noticed when he got a bigger plate that he didn't put the same amount on it but more. So he switched back to the smaller salad plate also.

Anything to try to make us think we are able to eat more food, right? lol

I definitely do the smaller plates and bowls thing. It makes me feel normal to be able to have an overflowing bowl of spaghetti and meat sauce and it doesn't matter to me that the overflowing bowl is only 1 cup volume. Anything we can do to feel mentally satisfied goes a long way to being physically satisfied.

Maria,
Right after my surgery I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and got this beautiful bright red plate and bowl set.  I'd say the plate is about the size of a cake plate and the bowl is normal sized for the most part.  I set the table and it's always set with my red plate.  I always weigh and measure so I never even fill THAT plate.  But it is psychological and now I can't even imagine going anywhere and eating off of a big plate.  It would feel too weird.  If I go to a restaurant I take their little bread dish and use that for my food.  Heck, that and "no thank you for the 11th time, I don't drink with my meals" sometimes gets me weird looks from the wait staff!!

 
We were using my husbands plates that I didn't like. Now I just use my nice china, and use the salad plate instead of the regular plate. The bowls are smaller with this china set also.

And btw.............LOVE BBB!!!!!!!!!!!

Donnamarie,
You touched on something that drives me crazy.  How many times do I have to tell the waiter/waitress that I don't want anything to drink???  I usually just end up letting them bring me water and then it sits there.  Why don't they get it?????
~ Barbara 

no way I don't have that much patience  however I am struggling with eating and drinking slower ugh

Jessica

Count me in with the normal bites but lots of chewing and slow eating.  I found it interesting how I naturally slowed down a bit before the surgery, and then of course afterwards.  I'm kind of shocked that I do eat so slowly as much of my prior WLS life I was a scarfer.  I probably am a bit more careful to not eat anything TOO big, but eraser sized pieces, hell no.

I don't have a fill so there's not that small opening thing going on.  However, I have had restriction from the beginning.  I have never PB'ed, never thrown up and never really gotten stuck.  Now with dry'ish things I have felt it tough to go down, but never impossible.  Then there was the time where I thought I could eat a banana chocolate chip muffin.  Yeah, the muffin thought otherwise.  I am so never trying THAT again.  I have also had trouble with a flat out wrap so I guess for me SOME bread type items are going to be a bit too sticky to work.

Somehow I don't think you are doing it all wrong!!

I take small bites but never the size of a pencil eraser.  However I wish that my eating was slower.  It takes a lot of effort to think about eating slow.  When filled, I will choke if talking and eating.  Yes, I know it is impolite to talk with food in your mouth.  LOL

I guess I'm odd guy out here cause I do take really small bites. I just trained myself when I was first banded and still tend to do it automatically. Course sometimes I might put 2 bites on the fork. As a rule tho I follow the tiny bite rule and still my band didn't work right !!!!

I don't take small bites.  I did when I first started.  I actually used a baby spoon to eat with so that I didn't accidentally overdo it.  But now I do what you do.  I take normal bites and chew it and swallow it in sections.