gauging how much to eat

claassycarol
on 11/23/14 8:15 pm

I am six weeks out from surgery and still have trouble gauging how much to eat. is there a method to this?

Gwen M.
on 11/23/14 8:45 pm

VSG on 03/13/14

I use a kitchen scale to measure everything.

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Julia HasHerLifeNow
on 11/23/14 10:19 pm

VSG on 10/09/12

Yeah, a measuring cup and a kitchen scale work great for me. Also table spoons and I keep a deck of cards in my mind as well for volume of meat, fish, chicken, especially when I eat out.

5ft0; highest weight 222; surgery weight 208; current weight 120

Grim_Traveller
on 11/24/14 12:04 am

RNY on 08/21/12

Don't gauge. Weigh or measure.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

frisco
on 11/24/14 6:42 am

VSG on 09/30/09

Ultimately it's about where volume and nutrition meet.

Dense meats is best to weigh because it is so dense and nutritional calculations are done by weight...... everything else by volume, your stomach was sized for volume and does not read weight.

Always under eat your capacity !!!! Eating till full is how most of us got fat !

Hope this helps !!!

frisco

SW 338lbs. GW 175lbs. Goal in 11 months. CW 148lbs. WL 190lbs.

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