Question:
I'm so ashamed...
I'm now almost 5 weeks post-op, Lap RNY. Down 37lbs. I was around a lot of food this past weekend and lost control. For breakfast I ate 1 egg scrambled with some cut up ham in it. For lunch I ate 6 to 8 small bites of breaded chicken and a bite of a biscuit. For dinner I ate 4 or 5 good sized bites of thin crust pizza with everything on it. I made sure I chewed up everything very well. I didn't throw up but did have some discomfort. I've also tried potatoes chips and french fries, just a few though. I don't know why I even thought of eating this way. I decided I needed to smarten up and am now eating 1/4 cup scrambled egg for breakfast, 1/2 cup yogurt for lunch and 2-3oz steamed fish and 3 tablespoons mashed potato for dinner. Oddly, this satisfies me, to the point I'm comfortable not too full. Have I stretched out my pouch? I meet with my surgeon this week and I'm so embarasseed to tell him about what I've ate. Should I tell him? I know I started eating solid food too soon and am very ashamed, please tell me some of you have gone through this too. — Angie B. (posted on April 9, 2002)
April 9, 2002
So you slipped up a little.. Don't beat yourself up over this!! You
recognized that eating that way wasn't right and decided to correct it..
you know that anything you put in your body has to be of good nutritional
value!!! I think we all will or have eaten something that wasn't the best
for us. If you are still able to eat small portions and feel satisfied my
guess would be your pouch is still intact and doing fine. We only had to be
on liquids for 4 days and I barely made it through that!! We have tried
Pizza too however .. I doubt any of us would have just had a few bites..
try a few (or more) slices... You are doing fine!!!
— Allie A.
April 9, 2002
Don't be ashamed. I don't know how you kept it all down. I wasn't ready
to eat any of that stuff for about 8 weeks, and when I did it was very much
in moderation. Be careful and try not to binge too much. I would ask your
doctor "how can you stretch your pouch". If he asks why, then
let him know.
— dolphins94
April 9, 2002
I MEANT to say that I doubt PRE-surgery many of us would have stopped with
a few bites!!!
— Allie A.
April 9, 2002
I know just how you feel. I am 5 mo.posT op .and I can eat anything.Even
if it is sweet or fried or what ever.Ihave lost 108 pounds.What I want to
know is I am almost eating 2 cups at one meal and 1 cup at the other 2
meals.I AM AFRAID I will end up eating like Idid before.I can't understand
why Ican eat sweets and fried and never get sick.It is harder this way
cause Idon't have any will power and if I CONTINUE EATING this way I'M
AFRAID I will gain all my weight back.anyone have any idea s of how I CAN
GET IN CONTROL.I GET IN ALL MY PROTEIN PLUS MORE USUALLY AND ALSO ALL MY
LIQUIDS.thanks NANCY m.
— NANCY M.
April 9, 2002
Honestly I don't see anything wrong with what and how much you have eaten.
6-8 bites of chicken, 4-5 bites of pizza? Did you eat that small of an
amount before surgery? You are doing fine. Don't beat yourself up over
this. As long as you're not eating fried foods and greasy pizza everyday,
and limit it to occasionally, it won't turn into something 'forbidden' and
then daydream about it. Our surgeon won't send us home UNTIL we have eaten
solids and everyone does great on his program! They do recommend staying
away from meats until 4 weeks though as it it more work to digest. You
probably had some discomfort from eating 1 bite too many, and from this you
learn. You are still new at this and will keep learning what your new
stomach can handle.
— Cheri M.
April 9, 2002
Hi -- I'm still pre-op, so maybe I have no right answering this question,
but I don't see that you did anything wrong. I'm going to be having this
surgery in order to live a NORMAL life, and everybody eats pizza and
chicken. If you're still losing weight, what's the problem? Of course,
you know that it's probably best not to eat like that all the time, but why
feel the need to deny yourself of things you like? I thought the whole
point of the surgery was to limit the AMOUNT of food you eat so that you
can still eat (most of the time) the kinds of food that everybody eats,
just in much smaller portions. Just my two cents' worth!
— Kristie B.
April 9, 2002
Angie, if you were the only person who slipped up then you could be
ashamed. Truth be known, each and every one of us has done their share of
not following the diet to the letter adn anyone who says differently is
either lying or a much much better person than I. I would tell the doctor
about the food, tell him that you are human and that you are now following
orders but that you slipped up. That way, if for any reason, you have a
problem or you don't lose as much this checkup, at least you were honest
and he will know why. Try try again. It's what we all do.
— Barbara H.
April 9, 2002
Don't worry about stretching your pouch. One or two incidents where you
have overeaten (and I'm not convinced this is one of them) are not going to
stretch it out permanently. I'm looking at what you've been eating since
this incident and it doesn't look like all that much. Be gentle with
yourself. You didn't do anything so wrong that you need to be ashamed of
it or hang your head about it. You're human and humans are not perfect.
— garw
April 9, 2002
oh, how i identified with this. i was only 5 days post op however. i was
only supposed to eat 2 oz meals and i ate a 6 oz container of yogurt.
i,too, thought i cannot tell the dr this, i am so embarrassed cause i knew
better. well, at my first postop appt, i confessed. he said that i couldnt
stretch my pouch, if i over ate, i would vomit since that was the path of
least resistance. i was so relieved. he didnt chew me out either. thanks
dr. simper, you are the greatest. hope this helps.
— PATSY N.
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