cottage cheese test?

I guess this is something you do to test the pouch size? So....anyone have more details? Or other tests? I fluctuate on how much I can eat. Sometimes nothing and then other days I am able to eat half a jimmy johns sub and chips for lunch. Scary very scary! Thank you!

If I remenber from a past post.You get a container and eat at one setting.Than  you ad water to see how much your pouch can hold

DX from the men's group forum has all the details about this...he can tell you everything you need to know..

Here's some info I copied and pasted for you, hope it helps!! First each of us will lose at a different rate so please don't compare yourself to anyone else- you are unique! I was told that the pouch should be able to hold 2-3 oz and after the 1 yr mark about 6 oz. I recently read in OH magazine we should never eat more than 5 oz after having surgery. Now for the cottage cheese test- it can be found in Colleen Cook's Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients- buy a 16oz carton of small curd low fat cottage cheese -Eat fairly quickly until you feel full (about 5 min)- you essentially do not need to chew due to the small curds so the pouch should fill up before it begins to empty- you are now left with a partially empty carton of cottage cheese- Measure the left over cottage cheese into a 2 cup measuring container- then add water until the level reachs the original level the cottage cheese had in the container- the difference between what is left of the cottage cheese and the amount of water it takes to reach 16 oz is the functional size of your pouch.                                                                                              DeeAnn

Here's a website that I found. I just did a search for "cottage cheese test" and this came up. Looks like it should tell you everything. Hugs,    Piggybabe http://www.pfamos.org/Test.htm

Can anyone tell me if there is another way to test the size of your pouch besides eating cottage cheese?  I cannot stomach that stuff and I would like to see how big my tummy is after almost 5 years post-op.   Thanks... Tammy

Has anyone done this and then dumped or vomited from doing it?  I want to know th size of my pouch but am wary of doing that to myself Thanks