This CAN'T be true.....
Proximal RNY Lap - 02/21/05
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Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
No, you won't stretch your pouch by eating 6 small meals a day. The important
thing is to follow your doc's eating recommendation. I was also told to
eat 6 times a day and I do or I get too hungry. Some surgeons say only
3 meals a day. My NUT discussed this at length with me. She said some
people push the 6 meals thing to include lots of snacking and carbs which
can stall weight loss and ultimately lead to weight gain. The 6
meals still need to fall within the carb and calorie guidelines for the whole
day. Whether you're eating 800 calories in 3 meals a day or 800 calories in
6 meals a day...is still 800 calories.
I eat six times a day, and that does not mean there is always food in my pouch. Um, I do sleep about eight hours most nights and I'm not waking up during the night to eat. And anyway, how would a couple ounces of food in my pouch, even if that must was in there all the time, stretch my pouch?
Whoever told you that does not know what she's talking about. Maybe her doctor told her that, but if so, he lied to her.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Now, I can see how grazing would lead to taking in too many calories during the day, which would cause you to regain weight. But since grazing usually means eating little bits of food all day long, I don't see how little bits of food would stretch the stoma.
As far as what happens when your 2 - 3 ounces turns into 6 - 8 ounces 6 times a day... well, I do eat about 8 ounces six times a day. What happens to me is that I feel satisfied, my blood sugar stays stable, I get enough protein and calories, and I maintain my weight where I want it to be. Other people may have different results, but it works very well for me.
I ended up here because I needed to develop new and better habits, too. Eating one cup of healthy food six times a day is a new habit for me. I did not get to be 270 pounds eating only one cup of healthy food six times a day.
Certainly you should do what works for you. I don't think there is one plan that fits everyone. We are all individuals.
The reason I posted was because what you said about eating six times a day stretching the pouch did not make sense to me. So I posted a question about it because I wanted to understand. The explaination you've given here still doesn't make sense, though.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
If controlling how much you eat is likely to be a problem for you then you ARE better off eating only 3 times per day, but I would like to see medical EVIDENCE backing up your nutritionist's assertion that the human body was "designed" to eat 3 times per day. Do you really think that early man ate three meals at specified times each day?!?
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Of course, now that we've had RNY, our bodies aren't exactly as they were designed. If doctors were trying to design bodies that should only eat three times a day, it seems like they would be giving us bigger pouches and/or doing surgery that left us with a pyloric valve.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
