Cherrie,my girl... yep you are way backwards on your eating plan WAY WAY backwards. I totaled up your days menu just for fun and here is what I came up with. I used the banana for breakfast the tenderloin for lunch and lean cusine for dinner.
Carbs 146.8 Pro 77.2

Here is black and white is your problem. You have your items backwards. You need to be eating 140 grm of protein a day and even less than 77 grms of carbs and 43.3 grams of those carbs you listed are pure sugar.

It is no wonder you are hungry all the time. the carbs are keeping you hungry. If you will leave off the breads and the biscotti and definately the lean cusine,which are just expensive crap,and eat more real food,tenderloin,real cooked chicken,seafood,real cooked beef eggs,real cheese you will lose . Eating the carbs also makes you think your pouch has stretched. I am the same way,when I eat carbs I can eat WAYYYY more than I can when it is dense protein,but it is the same sleeve/pouch,no? It didn't go out and get itself changed from one meal to the next.

If you drink 100 oz of fluids a day,you won't have room for all the junk you are eating,I guarantee it. I get over 100 oz most days and it makes a huge difference to me.

In another post you wrote that your husband was worried about you and was always making you healthy meals. Why not eat those for lunch dinner instead of non nutritive things?

As far as no time to cook healthy meals,phttt,just an excuse girly.  On the weekend marinate a whole bag of chicken breasts and grill them all at once. use them all week for lunches and dinners.  Make up a pound or two of ground beef into0 low carb meatballs and use them al;ll week with marinara sauce and no pasta.

Use some of that grilled chix and make a bowl of chicken salad;make a bowl of tuna salad with eggs,boil a dozen eggs and eat them all week. Buy beef jerky,eat it all week. Make ham salad,egg salad,whatever meat salad and eat it all week.  Eat that tenderloin without the bread. Know why you can only eat 1/2 tenderloin sandwich? Cause the meat is so dense it fills you up. Bingo!! That is the whole point,you need to fill up on dense protein and you will not be hungry and you will  lose.

What about vitamins? I saw in another post where you were thinking about the DS? you know just because it has malabsorption that you still can't eat carbs and non dense stuff and lose weight,right? There is NO surgery that is gonna make that happen,sorry to say.

If you are noncompliant now with vitamins,son't even get a DS or you will be killing yourself if you know you won't be STRICTLY compliant with vitamins.

You can preportion all the menu items above into containers/baggies so you are ready to grab and go.

Celery dipped in hummus helps with the crunch and before you say I don't want celery let me say I know that. Me either,but if all I want is crunch,celery will work just fine. Now,if I start saying oH I NEED popcorn,biscotti etc cause I NEED to CRUNCH.that is head hunger,your head talking to you and not a physical need cause if it a PHYSICAL need,ANYTHING will fit  the bill. When we start picking and choosing only certain items that will work,that is old devil head hunger.

That's probably true. 

A typical day for me usually starts with: 

Breakfast:  light and fit yogurt, a hard boiled egg and/or a banana. 
Lunch:  Lean Cuisine (I was told by him that I need to stop eating those.  :(  ), a chicken sandwich or 1/2 tenderloin sandwich,
Dinner:  Some type of sandwich w/cheese and mayo or lean cuisine.
Snacks:  I like buying those biscotti's from bariatricchoice.com that have 15 cals. and 0 carbs.  They are expensive though.  I usually eat a few during the day.  In the evening, I sometimes have a bag of popcorn (big no no I know!), or a couple of skinny cow pops.

I think I'm doing fairly well with the protein.  My blood work came back ok anyway.  The carbs I am doing horribly on I know.  I am trying to do better on that but it is very hard.  Most of the time I won't drink with my meals unless I'm eating Mexican. I'm trying to drink more water.  The dietician said that I should drink 100 oz of sf liquid/day.  Good grief!   I do some walking but again I need to do more of that.  I have joined the Y. 

I don't have a lot of time to fix nice healthy meals but I don't know what I can have that doesn't have a ton of carbs and is easy to just bag and go plus helps with the crunch cravings.  :(

He most likely thinks it is good medicine,and it is, to make sure WE are doing everything WE are supposed to do before he starts doing a lot of invasive testing. Right now,he doesn't have any reason to think there is something wrong with your pouch.

What he is hearing from you ,by what you say,is that the problem is not with your pouch but with how you are using it.

What is a typical day of eating like for you?

Getting 60+ gms protein a day?

Getting 20gms or less a day of carbs?

Getting 64+ oz of sf liq a day?

Are you drinking with your meals?
Exercise?

He probably would like to see you get back to basics and you can probably turn this thing around without another surgery.


Eating carbs,esp white carbs,will make you hungry. The more you eat of them the more you want. Hunger can aalso be dehydration in disguise. Your body may be begging for water instead of food.

You CAN do it. When I quit (25) years ago, the first week was the hardest. Keep busy and you will make it!

You're right, Holly.  He doesn't have a lot of patience for patients who are non-compliant.  He takes his work very seriously.  At my first follow-up visit, I was struggling to get my protein and vitamins.  He was firm yet not so intimidating as I thought he would be.  When I regained 10 pounds at two and a half years out (due to non-compliance), I got the full on attitude.  I've since lost that ten pounds by getting back to basics and won't have to see his LOOK in October at my 3 year follow up.  Can't quite describe his LOOK, I just know I'd rather not see it.