How long between meals
3-4 hours between meals.. and push liquids in beweeen
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
18 days post op that is fine! Let's you get all your drinking in that way, too.
I actually do intermittent fasting (IF). I fast 12 hours (from 12a - 12p). I eat my first meal at or after noon, and don't eat after 12. Though, it's really more like 16-18 hours since I don't eat past six. I eat 3 small meals during that time.
I didn't do this close to post-op, of course. For me, IF helps regulate my hunger much better than more frequent meals. I also eat a more moderate protein/higher fat diet (low carb) which it works well with. Paired with Harvey/teenystomach, it's helped me stay on track and reduce cravings a lot.
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
