Maintenance

Aug 25, 2011

Today I am officially 8 months and 27 days out from surgery....clearly, yes, I am not in the maintenance phase yet but it is something that I think about more often now that I am able to eat a little bit more.  And can someone please explain to me why I can eat more that the next RNY'er?  It is a little frustrating!!  LOL  For lunch today I had a 6' veggie delight from Subway on wheat toasted.  I ate the first 3" at lunch (1pm) and I am having the 2nd 3" now.  Is that normal?  LOL   I won't eat anything else till I get home and then I plan on having broccoli, one of the microwave Green Giant small packs...problem there is that I can literally eat the entire thing...its only like 120 calories in the entire pack but still.  A good friend of mine hardly eats at all and is dropping the weight like crazy.  Ive done good but I am worried that with my appetite (head hunger) and the amount of food I am able to eat that when I get to the maintenenace phase it is going to be a struggle daily just to attempt to maintain.  
I have read about this 5 Day Pouch Test.  Has anyone tried it?  Basically it is back to basics of liquid diet for like 2 days then just protein-small servings I think.  It is suppose to bring you back to the mentality that we all was right after surgery....when we couldn't eat an entire 6" sub in a matter of 2 hours LOL  If you have tried it or read about it or just have comments on it in general Id love to hear it.  I would love to go to just doing soups but they are SO HIGH in sodium and I think that was causing me to retain water so bad.  Maybe I need to get back to having my shrimp for lunch, my egg on 1/2 a sandwich thin for breakfast and a reasonable dinner.  That would not only save me money  on going out to eat everyday but keep my calories down and my serving size small.

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