Please help is there something wrong with my pouch :(

tyvette007
on 7/13/11 3:42 am
Next week I will be 8 weeks out. I have lost about 40 pounds.
I feel great no pain,nausea, vomiting ever.
I can eat up to 4 oz of food sometimes more. Have I stretched my pouch???

Yesterday I ate:
Breakfast- 1 Turkey sausage
Lunch- Big salad w/ 1 oz Tuna
Dinner- 10 small shrimp
Before bedtime Protein shake

Today I ate:
Breakfast 4 oz oatmeal
Snack Protein shake

I can swallow pills whole,gulp down lots of water and I sometimes eat my food in a rush, and still no problems.
I do vigorous exercise 4-5 days a week .
Am I eating to much? Is my pouch bigger that others??
Others don't want to eat. I do have a appetite.

Please help me understand.
                "THE BEST IS YET TO COME"

    


        
    
WildHeart101
on 7/13/11 3:46 am - Lexington, KY
4 ounces sounds about right....
Cindy    *number on ticker includes 14.5 lbs lost prior to surgery                                                                                
                        
Carrie W.
on 7/13/11 4:09 am - KY
Sounds about right for me too. My plan calls for 3oz of chicken/fish and up to a half cup of veggies. I don't usually eat that much but I could. For me I was able to eat more before I got the sensation of fullness back at about 2 1/2 months. Now I feel full and I HATE that feeling so I eat less at a meal.

I think some people do have bigger pouches. I was encouraged to eat that 3oz of meat at only 3 weeks out. Maybe it's just that I did that and knew I could get more in.
  HW 347/SW 328/CW 176/GW 160                   
 
  
wisaluv
on 7/13/11 4:24 am - Pueblo, CO
I think I eat a little more than you and Ive worried the same thing.  Im 3.5 months out and lost 59 so far (.1 from 60 haha)
        
Anna M.
on 7/13/11 5:52 am - Manchester, NH
I am a little over 8 weeks out and I eat 3 oz protein plus 1/2 cup veg 3xs/day based on my surgeon's plan.

It's strange how different every plan is. Compared to a lot of people here I feel like I am eating way too much at this stage.
    
* Starting weight: 383 * Day of Surgery: 363 * Ticker includes weight lost pre-op *
Sasrah1972
on 7/13/11 7:14 am - NY
I am also 8 weeks out (congratulations) and have lost 45lbs. Tonight for dinner I ate a hamburger patty at a restaurant and I didn't measure it first: it was 150g. Turns out it was 5.25 oz and I ate the entire thing. I shouldn't have, but I did. And although I was STUFFED and felt not marvelous after, I was OK. I do think some of us have bigger pouches than others. I was hungry--hadn't eaten since lunch (no snacks) and ate nothing else, so I guess the protein was good, but still...too much.
sunpat41
on 7/13/11 8:51 am
I am a little over 2 months and I still can only eat about 2 oz, I am afraid to eat more don't want to get sick, I never have been sick or vomited
                        HW 250/ SW 246 CW 137
                      
Lisa R.
on 7/13/11 9:43 am - CA
Isn't it funny how we now worry about 4 ounces of food being too much!  LOL.

Really, put 4 ounces of food on a normal sized plate and look at it, it really is nothing compared to what "normal" people eat.  

Today I went to lunch with a friend and had a chicken salad.  Ate the cut up chicken and some eggs and a few bits of salad, worried I was eating too much, got a bit full and stopped.  Here I was worried as hell I ate too much and my friend says "It is so funny how little you eat" I asked the waiter for a box to take the rest home and he asked me "was there something wrong with your salad" because I barley ate any of it.  

If you can take down a big hamburger with a bun at 2 months out, that would be too much, but 3 ounces of meat with a 1/2 cup of veggies....SOOO not too much~


I think it is perspective.   
  
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand        
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