Hi bypass friends,
I have a question. Is the pouch of all of us the same size?
I got revision from lap band to rny bypass 6 weeks ago. I can eat very normal sizes. For example I can eat 3/4 of a fish. Or scramble eggs. I eat very normal. Could pouches have different size?
I am nervous of not losing weight. Why am I eating so well?

I don't eat carbohidrates, sugar or any bread or cereal but I don't know if this is right or not.

Helppp!!!

Surgeons can make the pouches different sizes but I think they mostly all make them similar in size.

How big is 3/4 of a fish?  Like how many ounces?  How many scrambled eggs do you eat?  Are you eating the amount recommended by your surgeon or dietician?

The fish fillet would be around the size of my hand I would eat 3/4 of it.
1 egg scrambled with cheese.
Or I can eat i cup of soup. Not the fish and the soup, one for each meal

Most make them about the size of a lemon. Some surgeons do a micropouch.  Mine was a micro pouch and about 10cc.   The cottage cheese test is a way to see what size your pouch is.

The Cottage Cheese Test

1. Purchase a container of small curd low-fat cottage cheese.
2. Begin the test with a full container of cottage cheese, and perform the test in the morning before eating anything else. This will be your breakfast on that day.
3. Eat fairly quickly until you feel full (less than five minutes). Note that the small soft curds do not require much chewing. You are eating rapidly so you will fill the pouch before there is time for any food to flow out of it.  After eating your "fill" of cottage cheese, you will be left with a partially eaten container that has an empty space where cottage cheese used to be.
4. Measure the volume of cottage cheese you have eaten by filling a two cup (16 fl.oz.) measuring cup with water. Pour water into the container of cottage cheese until the water level rises to the original top level of the cottage cheese.
5. The amount of water poured into the container is the functional size of your pouch.

Dr. Flanagan's research indicates that the average volume of the mature stomach pouch, measured by this method, is 5.5 ounces (163 ml). Additionally, he reached the conclusion that, "sizes ranging up to 9 ounces have NO IMPACT on the person's success in weight loss". This means that unless your pouch holds a greater volume than 9 ounces (267 ml), the exact size of your pouch is not a critical factor in whether or not you can lose excess weight and then manage your weight as time progresses.

Thank you!!