Eventual Capacity.....Why it matters

"Long term is where eventual capacity comes into play when you consider that 100 calories per day over your balance point is about a 10lbs. gain in a year."

So what does capacity have to do with this? 100 calories is 1 tablespoon of peanut butter. You can have the absolute smallest, tightest stomach in the world, and you can get one tablespoon of peanut butter into any meal, much less at any point during the day.

WLS is not dependent on capacity. If it did, the band would work. The other changes brought about by surgery are more significant than capacity.

Ya, that peanut butter is packed with calories, shouldn't eat it.

Most proteins are near 50cals an ounce. One more ounce of chicken and that's the 100cals.

I get your point though.

frisco

kind oof off topic but regarding capacity, I just took a friend to concord to get sleeved.  The surgical assistant was explaining to her that your esophogus and stomach are now more like one long tube and right after surgery, due to swelling, the esophogus is actually bigger. so thats why even tiny sips give you that feeling of having a bubble in your belly and why it goes away. hadn't heard that before.  so whats left of the stomach gradually changes.   having long term good restriction is a good thing and i am grateful for it. but it in no way excuses me from responsibility for what i eat.  its kind of like the emergency brake.   I find that even if i am really hungry (which is no where even near the hunger level I had pre vsg)  I don't feeel the need to eat a bigger meal than a normal maintenance vsg meal.  my former self would have had a giant meal that continued all evening.  I have taken pretty good care of my sleeve (i hope) and it rewards me by still reminding me to stop from time to time.

Frisco is so right.  getting new habbits firmly established in the first year is just as important as the weight loss itself. remember the old days of dieting when we would think " ok, i can't wait til I lose this weight so I can go back to regular eating."   Doesn't work that way..    But leaning a new approach to food is so liberating.

Diane  90% of a vet

Diane, I have never heard it explained this way, makes so much sense. 

On another note, I was out of town the past two weekends, but will be going to the Farmer's market (to get the lemon sprouted almonds) this Sunday.  You should get something in the mail soon.  :)  Ilana still loves, and I mean LOVES her rhino.  I will include a photo.

yeah it really made sense to me too.  good new PA.  don't rush on almonds. i am going out of town for two weeks to see Mom.  glad Rhino Princess is loved.   Diane

Yes...... the esophagus is actually capable of expanding a fair amount larger than our sleeve, even matured.

frisco

Thank you for this helpful post.  I was a bit freaked the other day about capacity.  Then I remembered my daughter always eats several bites of my tuna salads or salmon off my plate & if I couldn't finish the 5 ounce can of tuna or the 4 ounces of salmon I'd come back to it as another meal much later in the day or 30 mins. later if still hungry.  Your posting are always so helpful to me & I thank you Sensei.  Oh & I'm loving that my daughter is making healthy choices with me now too; she's got her weight under control & is healthy but she is enjoying some of my foods & even protein shakes now too.

I just finished reading all of the posts so far.  This was a very good read and I appreciate it all.  Being a bandster, until July, I often sit down to dinner with my salad plate meal, (no 9" dinner plates for me) and catch myself constantly avoiding the band rules.  that is how I regained and I am now preparing myself for the sleeve life.  As a bandster, until 2012, I did EVERYTHING as I should have.  But the past 2 years or so, I have loosened up the rules, and surely the restriction left in the band.  As I catch myself and correct my actions now, I find these sorts of posts/discussions so helpful in getting back to my reality.