A chicken breast should be very filling.  Are you drinking with your meal?

My surgeon lectured me about regain with every visit.

At two years out, I was eight pounds under goal and he advised me to try to get to 20 or even 30 pounds under goal.  I did not do that.

At 30 months I started regaining and quickly added 12 pounds.  It took four months.  I panicked, went back to Weigh****chers, talked to my nutritionist, increased exercise, drank more water, ate more protein.  I finally realized that I had to cut calories to get it back off.

I weigh every day.  It keeps me out of denial.  I am currently 1/2 pound over goal and that does not bother me.  I don't get too upset unless I go up about five pounds.  

You are at a point where it is not to hard to lose more weight.  Regain is a reality and I would advise you to have a cushion for loss even if you look too skinny for a while.  Eight pounds is very conservative.  Twenty might be more realistic. 

If Readers Digest showed up at your door with the prize check, would you say, "Gee, would someone tell me whether to take all this money and be rich now, or should I just try to work harder and save more?"

RNY can give you a chance to live life in a slim, healthy body now.  Don't believe that you will only lose 50 pounds.  It should be pretty easy to lose 80 or 90 and have a little cushion for long term maintenance.  Diet and exercise are short term solutions. 

You have been offered the best opportunity available to get slim and healthy.  You can have the body, health, and life that most people only dream about.  Grab the opportunity, follow the rules, and be grateful for this surgery.  Probably about 3% of people would benefit from the surgery actually get it.  You are one of the lucky ones.  

You can't gauge how full you are because the nerves that do that have been cut.  A half cup of potatoes is a huge amount of food to be putting into a week old pouch.  It took me about six months to work up to a half cup of food at a time. 

Yesterday I saw someone on here who ate half of a fun-size Three Musketeer bar to test whether she dumped. 

Dumping is pretty much an non-issue for most of us with RNY, especially as time goes on.  I have dumped a few times in seven years.  Each time it was from mindlessly eating a lot candy on an empty stomach. 

I am not talking about a few pieces, I am talking about a bagful of something like miniature Tootsie Rolls or a bag of Hershey Nuggets.  I can have that stuff in the house for months and never touch it and then one day start eating it and get tightness in the chest, sweaty, shaky and miserable for 30 minutes or so. 

I vow it will never happen again, but it might so my solution is to never allow that stuff in my house again.  I live alone so that is easy for me to do.

I had surgery over seven years ago and still have no appetite.  I just eat because it is necessary to do so.  I make sure I eat my required amount of protein and then add some salad and vegetables.  I have gotten used to not having an appetite and would rather wear my size 4 jeans than look forward to food.

A fully grown pouch is between eight and twelve ounces.  How big did they tell you yours is?

Compared to a stomach that was about 30 ounces, the pouch size should not matter.  Rapid weight loss ends about six months for most of us.   Are you tracking your food, counting calories and keeping carbs very low? 

You should not have problems keeping soft foods down, but might be eating too much and/or too fast.  A tablespoon or two is a lot at four weeks out and needs to be eaten very slowly.

Paul,

That does sound like a bug. 

I know the team wants you to ride it out, I personally take Imodium.  I also take four doses of Citicel Fiber every day. Two in the morning and two at night.

Set a goal and make it realistic.  Our bodies get very efficient at holding on to calories after a few years.  The body has been starved and is smart enough to learn how to not let that happen again.

Set a goal weight and put a date on.  It will take hard work, but you should be able to lose a pound a week by cutting out 500 calories a day.  To maintain 211 means you are eating more than 2200 calories a day.  I have to go to 900 to lose weight.  That takes time and planning but I do it when necessary.

You need to allow 30 weeks to get to 181.  Plan your menus and mark your calendar each week.  I would cut way back on the meat or divide the five ounces into two or three meals.  Get a food scale to be sure. 

I stick to six small meals a day and make sure they are 200 - 300 calories.  When you start seeing results on the scale your motivation will increase. 

The important thing to have a goal, give yourself the time needed and then go to work on that goal.

Every day that you wait the diabetes gets stronger and you chances of RNY putting it into remission get lower.  You are being offered a chance that most people don't get.

It does not matter why you gained the seven pounds so much as how you are going to lose them.

Gaining seven pounds in a week tells me that you are not weighing daily.  Eating extra calories will not keep you out of starvation mode because starvation mode is a myth.

It will put you into gaining mode which is very real.

I eat 1400 calories a day to maintain 136.  If the scale goes up by more than one pound I drop to 900.  Our bodies become very efficient at holding onto weight after the initial surgery honeymoon ends.

A personal trainer will not understand at all.  Take it from

an old vet, we do not need the same amount of calories as a normal person who has not had their body surgically altered.

I want to  be thrown into a tailspin if my weight goes up even by one pound.