For those of you who are 3, 6, 9, 12 months out

[momnear40 1]

How much is a typical meal for you? I just wonder how long you go on eating so very little. I would love examples!

[CheckYes 46]

Im at 3 months out. I generally eat three times a day. I eat about 3/4 cup to 1 cup at a time. I will sometimes eat a serving of mixed nuts as a snack in the evening because I'm having a hard time keeping my calories about 700 a day. I haven't had a fill but am just not hungry anymore. I know I should be eating more and I try to but I crave cauliflower now and stuff like that. I eat fish once or twice a day.

[reverie 49]

I eat 6 times a day. I never ate very little as I don't believe eating 1/2 cup of food at one sitting is any type of healthy. Normally I eat a cup per meal with 3 small snacks; always 4oz+ of dense Protein, vegetables, and some sort of healthy carb.

[Melissannde 41]

My main meals are 3oz of Protein and 1/2 cup of veggies. I've been banded 2 years.

I do eat more frequently than 3x a day come to think of it, but strive to stay around 1200 calories. I don't sweat it if I go over for a day or two or even 3, but start cracking down on myself after 3 days of indulgence.

I know it seems like a tiny amount at the beginning, but as you go on, it really does become enough food.

[Melissannde 41]

Examples?

Breakfast (around 7am or so): 1 cup of steelcut oatmeal & 1 Turkey sausage link, OR 5.3 oz Dannon f/f greek yogurt, 1/4 cup Kashi Go-Lean High Protein Cereal & 2 T. blueberries, today it's probably a container of Carbmaster Yogurt (out of the greek), 1/4 cup Kashi & blueberries. Or I might just drink a 8.5oz carton of Muscle Milk light. Haven't decided yet. Still working on my coffee & Calcium right now.

Yesterday midmorning: 1 scoop of Syntrax nectar in 16 oz of Powerade ZERO & 4 icecubes whirled in the blender. Drank half, saved other half for later. I drink this to help repair my muscles after my vigorous (90 minutes or more) workouts. I take my multi at this time. I never did drink the other half yesterday as I didn't go back to the gym as I had considered. So I will probably have that today.

1pm Lunch: 3oz baked salmon & 1/2 cup of leftover veggies (stirfry of various things, mainly greenbeans). Calcium.< /p>

5pm Snack: 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the rest of the leftover veggies. I didn't measure, but there wasn't as much as at lunch. Usually I'll have some kind of Protein (cheese stick, yogurt) as a snack.. just didn't this time.

8pm (yes, I ate late.. my bad): 3.5 oz of baked porkchop, 1/2 cup of stirfry (squash, mushrooms, onion, peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, spinach). I stirfry with minute amounts of olive oil spray. Calcium.

[JanB23 23]

I eat an egg or small can of Beans for Breakfast, a 1 & 1/2 cup of salad for lunch with fish or cheese and have a reasonable size dinner. meat, small potato and veg or salad. I snack on marinated carrots, asparagus and special K bars.I try to keep my calories below 1200.I avoid bread, so dont know if i can eat it or not. I am 6 months post op and can eat most things as long as i eat slowly(including steak and broccoli). I can eat way too much but try not too as it is very uncomfortable. I have only been "stuck" 3 times and then it comes straight back up, each time it was because i gulped something down without chewing properly.

I am continuing to loose slowly -I am now up to 28kg (61 lb). I walk at least 5 days a week and work out at least once a week and eat chocolate at least once a week.

[AquarianCrab 8]

Breakfast for me is a double Protein shake (2 cups of skim milk and 2 scoops of powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury Protein powder) for 40g of protein down the hatch first every day. I make it up at home and drink it on the way to work. This is followed by 2 cups of coffee at work.

lunch (at 11:30 AM - not my choice, I'm a teacher) is usually about 1 1/2 cups of leftovers from yesterday's dinner. I just mix all the leftovers into one microwavable container like a casserole (meat is cut into tiny chunks when I mix it all together after dinner the night before, and if there's not a lot, I'll put it into a whole wheat soft taco wrap). If I don't have any leftovers, I'll eat one of my emergency backups: either a lean cuisine or one lean pocket.

Mid-afternoon snack (when I get home, around 4 PM) is usually my daily treat of a sugar-free jell-o chocolate pudding. Sometimes I'll have a lite no sugar applesauce or piece of fresh fruit if I have some. (I'll probably do the fruit more often once it's in season).

Dinner is usually a piece of protein (1 pork chop or boneless chicken breast or fish fillet, for example), a couple of spoons of rice, potatoes, or Pasta, and a couple of spoons of cooked veggies. Sometimes on the weekend, if my husband craves wings or a big mac I'll make a salad and top it with a hard-boiled egg and tuna, chicken (I buy a family pack of boneless breasts, marinate and roast them, then slice them and put each breast in a baggie and put them in the freezer), or 2 slices of very well cooked spam (I buy the single slices in the foil pouches) cut into chunks (hey, some favorite foods are just non-negotiable, but I don't do this one often because my husband hates the smell of it).

Dessert later in the evening is my assortment of Gummy Vitamins, chewy Calcium, chewy Omega fish oil, and this week I added 3 prunes. I know it's not really dessert, but they taste like it.

My nutritionist and surgeon have me eating 1200 calories daily. I enter everything into a food diary on the Realize My Success site (love it, it calculates everything for you and they have some great recipes) at least twice a week - doctor's orders (by the way, he can also access my food diary and stats on the site). Sometimes I'm over by 100 calories, but most days I'm under by up to 500 calories (and I get reprimanded from my doctor more for being under than being over).

[vickyd 24]

Breakfast for me is either egg beaters, 2%cheese and a turkey sausage patty or a Protein shake

lunch is usually 3 oz Protein (leftover from dinner the night before) or 1 chicken sausage link and 1/2 cup veggies or even a small salad with 3 oz protein and a small amount of Salad Dressing (I don't pour it on the salad, but rather dip my fork into it with each bite so I don't use more than 1 tbsp or so).

dinner is 4 oz protein and 1/2 cup veggies.

In order to lose effectively, I have to take in between 1,000-1,100 calories a day so I usually need a snack - not because I'm hungry but because I need the calories. My "go-to" snack is low-fat string cheese or ham rollups with laughing cow cheese.

As you can see, I choose to follow a pretty low-carb diet (it is what works for me). When I write it down like that, it doesn't look like much but I can assure you that I am not hungry at all between meals and am very satisfied on this amount of food.

[Melissannde 41]

Dessert later in the evening is my assortment of Gummy Vitamins, chewy Calcium, chewy Omega fish oil, and this week I added 3 prunes. I know it's not really dessert, but they taste like it.

If your Vitamins have Iron in them, you may want to consider spacing your Vitamin & calcium intake at least 2 hours apart. And also you should be taking your calcium in divided doses throughout the day. We had a speaker come to our support group last month and these are a couple of things that they told us.

If your doctor is telling you different.. go with what he/she said. But if they haven't, ask if you should space them out. I've always been told that Iron will interfere with calcium absorption.

[HeatherinCA 10]

I'm 3 months out, I have 5.5ccs in my band, I'm never really hungry... but I still like food, and I can eat anything without getting stuck, this is a typical day for me:

Breakfast

2 eggs scrambled with cheese & tomatoes & salsa (sometimes w/ chicken if i need a Protein boost)

2 slices of center cut bacon (or a 100 calorie or less english muffin or toast)

(or a 3/4 dry cup bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar and maybe bananas)

lunch

1/2-3/4 cup chicken salad or tuna salad (made w/ low fat mayo and relish, or a premade one)

cucumber slices or crackers

(of yesterday I ate out I had a 1/2 a sandwich and a Soup at panera bread, 460 calories)

Dinner:

4 turkey meatballs with marinara sauce and part skim mozzarella.

(Might do the same thing w/ chicken breast, or ground meat)

Then usually I have a 1/2 cup (dry) bowl of oatmeal sometime during the day, or some other snack like frozen yogurt.

[TKW 501]

I am 9 months out.

Breakfast - I'm super tight, usually have a yogurt about 10:00am, or sometimes a piece of fruit. if I'm not hungry I don't eat until lunch.

lunch - usually a salad with lots of raw veg (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, onion, radish, cucumber - its more veg than lettuce) with chicken, turkey, roast beef, steak, whatever left over meat I have. Sometimes a Lean Cusine or chicken salad on a sandwich thin.

Supper - 4/5 oz of meat, veg and salad. sometimes a starch added in there instead of the salad because I can go several days without rice or potato and then I just really "need" it.

Late Night snack - if I have one it is usually a yogurt or a weight watcher raspberry/dark choc. ice cream bar, or a 100 calorie pack of Cookies... lol which i don't do often cuz one usually leads to two. (cookies are my weakness)

[TKW 501]

If your Vitamins have Iron in them, you may want to consider spacing your Vitamin & Calcium intake at least 2 hours apart. And also you should be taking your Calcium in divided doses throughout the day. We had a speaker come to our support group last month and these are a couple of things that they told us.

So, you shouldn't take your calcium with your Iron? ?? Didn't know that, did they say why? And why space the calcium? Thanks for the info - I take it all at once, will change that.

[Melissannde 41]

So, you shouldn't take your Calcium with your Iron??? Didn't know that, did they say why? And why space the calcium? Thanks for the info - I take it all at once, will change that.

Calcium & Iron interfere with each other.. reducing the absorption of the calcium (and maybe the iron too). Also our bodies can only handle about 500 mg of calcium at a time.. so if you're taking more than 500 at a time, whatever is over 500 is basically wasted.

This is what we were told by a speaker from a bariatric Vitamin company. Holds true for any brand though. I'd heard it before from other sources (a nurse who is a bariatric coordinator with Baylor University).

Also you can take Vitamin C with your iron to help it absorb. Just another little tip.

Just verify with your surgeon/nurses to be sure. I'm only repeating what I've been told.

[mattie7632 24]

I want whoever is preparing these meals to come to my house!

I'm 3 months out, I have 5.5ccs in my band, I'm never really hungry... but I still like food, and I can eat anything without getting stuck, this is a typical day for me:

Breakfast

2 eggs scrambled with cheese & tomatoes & salsa (sometimes w/ chicken if i need a Protein boost)

2 slices of center cut bacon (or a 100 calorie or less english muffin or toast)

(or a 3/4 dry cup bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar and maybe bananas)

lunch

1/2-3/4 cup chicken salad or tuna salad (made w/ low fat mayo and relish, or a premade one)

cucumber slices or crackers

(of yesterday I ate out I had a 1/2 a sandwich and a Soup at panera bread, 460 calories)

Dinner:

4 turkey meatballs with marinara sauce and part skim mozzarella.

(Might do the same thing w/ chicken breast, or ground meat)

Then usually I have a 1/2 cup (dry) bowl of oatmeal sometime during the day, or some other snack like frozen yogurt.

[AquarianCrab 8]

My Calcium is hard to space out because it's just a single chew. Same with the others. I think it would be difficult to eat only a part of it and wrap the rest up for later since they're so small. I'm post-menopause so Iron is not a necessity for me. In fact, I was told if I could find multis without iron that would be better.