Question:
Just want to know if I am eating too much 4 1/2 weeks post op

Today I had about 4 and a1/4 oz of homemade turkey breast chili, one power crunch protein bar which is 1.29 oz and one teaspoon of lowfat ricotta cheese with a teaspoon of spaghetti sauce...I am worried that the protein bars that I love to eat are too fattening for me and that it will limit weight loss sometimes I eat one or two a day because i don't always feel like eating a meal but today I had one and ate lunch and the ricotta snack the cals for this bar are 190 w/9 g of fat and 4 grams of saturated fat..Am I doing too much I can a whole protein bar being that it isn't even 2 oz...Tori    — TotallyTori (posted on April 10, 2003)

April 10, 2003
Tori...I think that you are getting confused on the Power Crunch Bar between <b>volume ounces</b> & <b>weight ounces</b>. The Power Crunch Bar (my PB Fudge ones are 1.31 oz) measurement is 1.31 <b>weight</b> ounces. You need to worry about the volume of food (in ounces) as the capacity of your pouch is measured in volume ounces. <b> With that aside, you could probably eat 4 oz of chili depending on the thickness of it. Whether you should is another story. I limit myself to 4 oz of chili at a sitting at nine months - at 4 weeks, I was probably eating 2-3 oz of chili (I could get 3 meals out of small 8 oz Wendy's chili). The Power Crunch I usually eat only 1/2 off at nine months (definitely 1/2 of it at 4 weeks). <p> I am confused at your wording - is this all that you have had so far today or you had all of this at one meal?? If you had it at one meal, then I think it's too much. I would be eating 2-3 oz of the chili OR 1/2 of a power crunch bar (maybe with that teaspoon of ricotta cheese) for one meal- but not all of it together...JR (open RNY 07/17/02 -167 lbs)
   — John Rushton

April 10, 2003
No I don't have this at one meal, this is what I have eaten so far today. the doctor said it was ok for me to 3 -4oz of chilli and it not really thick at all it has alot of juice, I am full after 3oz but sometimes I can eat 4 oz but never more than that and not with any other kind of food-so are you saying that the protein bar is not 1.28oz of food it is actually more than that-I am confused now???
   — TotallyTori

April 10, 2003
Tori - the bar weighs 1.31 oz - the volume of the bar is more than that. Visualize cutting the bar into pieces and putting it in a measuring cup. It's going to be more than 1.31 oz of volume (which would be about a 6th of a cup).
   — John Rushton