Portion

Passive aggressive food shaming. Classy.

I'm only 14 months out and I can eat two eggs if I don't combine it with much. In fact, if I opt not to have sausage/bacon/cheese with my eggs I won't be satisfied until lunch unless I have two.

I really only see a concern with portion sizes when people are eating 3-4oz of dense protein and they are only weeks out from surgery. I also think certain food**** people differently. I can eat 4oz+ of scallops, but only 3oz or so if beef. Chicken breast I can do 3.5oz if it's not dry. It's very specific to each person.

My snacks are regularly 3oz of weighed protein. So that could be (2) meat sticks and a string cheese. A babybel wouldn't be much of a snack by itself.

Wow, what a ****ty passive aggressive post. Why would you pick on Daisy, who is one of the more successful long term posters on this board? Daisy has maintained at her goal weight for several years and is truly a role model for many people here.

I agree that there are a lot of new people making poor choices--either in food choices or in portion size, but to call out a successful person in maintenance was just obnoxious and completely counterproductive.

Warning people against the use of NSAIDS and making sure they take their vitamins (or they may end up with ulcers and osteoporosis/broken bones like you have had to deal with) is a much more important message than telling us not to eat 2 eggs or 2 babybell cheese. You should stick to that.

I am thankful I can eat much more than one egg and one babybell and still maintain my loss. Most of us can.

If all we ate was eggs and baby bels we would never have gotten fat to start with. It's the pasta, toast, sugary fruit, candy, donuts, etc, that made us fat. I'd argue tha****ching food composition rather than portions is slightly more important from the biochemistry side of things. That's a tangent, however.

I had a long convo with surgeons, and both a VSG sleeve and an RNY pouch are expected to hold ~ 1 cup post-op after a year. A DS sleeve holds more because it's typically larger, but not always.

This is why whenever I read menu threads I take this into account. Vets can simply eat more, period. Also, that's not necessarily bad? I mean, we need to eat things to, well. Not die. And, it's far preferable to get food from whole sources rather than processed whey whenever we are able. Even in treating eating disorders, there is no way two eggs for one meal would be considered disordered or inappropriate eating that would lead to weight gain.

Close to surgery is another matter...I mean, a month out and I can barely eat an egg. Like, I don't fathom how people get fast food on the way home from surgery and eat whole sandwiches or tacos and stuff.

Me, I have two ounces of fish tops, and that's if I eat slowly over 30 minutes and it's later in the day, and Harvey Jr. is done for a few hours. Early morning, forget solid food - he's a rebellious scamp early, and it's still protein shake time. There's no way I'm going to be eating anything like vets who have been doing this for years, because I would seriously damage my stomach doing it - never mind the fact I don't even have that capacity to.

All that aside, it's actually unlikely you would stretch the RNY pouch eating two eggs. For starters, eggs are not, well, that solid. Once masticated their volume is drastically less. Secondly, over time the pouch capacity is more because swelling has gone down from the procedure, and that's actually a good thing because it's far more preferable to get protein from whole sources vs. whey as much as you can.

I am almost 3 years (yes, YEARS...Not months) and 5 ounces at each meal is what I can handle.

I still weigh my food on a scale and use the smallest paper plate they sell at Costco. Why? I've seen too many people fail at this surgery. They forget or simply never learned "mindful eating" rather than mindlessly eating.

You should always be aware that you can stretch out your stomach after you have healed. I am surprised that some weren't told this in their pre-surgery hoops that they had to jump through.

Or maybe, they chose not to listen to it. (Gotta love the "magic bullet" theory...not!)

A two-egg meal is not going to stretch a matured pouch.

I'm a forty year old woman who tells it like it is and everyone's pouch is not created equally! Good for you that you eat 1 baby bell and 1 egg! Some of us eat more some can eat less , however I'm pretty certain that taking vitamins should be considered more important than eating a few more ounces of protein , because if you let you teeth fall out .... all you'll be able to do is gum your soft scrambled egg ( bleh )