Pouch size - Quick update
Hey guys,
It has been a few months since I have been here. Just got busy.
Well it is almost 7 months since my surgery. I have lost 120 pounds. I actually have lost 100 pounds in the first three months and the lost 20 in the next two months. I have been hanging around this current weight for the last two months.
I started out at 350. Some times I feel very content with my current weight (almost complacent).
Well anyway, I am going in for incisional hernia repair at the end of May. Getting it done before the insurance plan year changes and I have to pay for that surgery.
The question:
how can I tell if I have overstrectched my pouch? I heard of a cottage cheese/yogurt test. Does anybody have any suggestions or knowledge of the test.
I have fallen hard in the past two months. I can drink almost after eating, I still don't try to eat and drink at the same time. and I think I may have strecthed my pouch out because I can consume lots of food but I am confused, because, I tend to eat a meal over a longer period of time, sometimes up to an hour.
Bill 
348/217/180
Pre-Surgery/Current/Goal
348/217/180
Pre-Surgery/Current/Goal
Hey Bill,
I've never tried the test on myself mainly because I still eat a lot less than my wife who only weighs 135.
We started at the same weight, right now I weigh 243. I had WLS before you though.
The cottage cheese is done by using small curd cottage cheese, probably the 16 oz. tub. First thing when you get out of bed in the morning, don't drink or eat anything. Do the test first thing. You'll want to eat as fast as you can until you feel full, not full to pain though, just full. Once your full, set the tub aside and leave the leftover cottage cheese in the tub. Now take a measuring cup and fill it with 16 oz. water. Pour the water into the cottage cheese tub, filling it to the point where the cottage cheese was when you opened it. Subtract the amount of water left in the measuring cup after the test from 16 oz., and you got the size of your pouch.
I doubt your pouch is as big as you think it is.
Ronnie
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