Need Advice: Am I eating too much?

[Graceful One 4]

Second part of my question...

Would you consider this too much to eat at one sitting?

About 5 sugar snap peas, 5 baby carrots, 3 pepper slices and some dip...two teaspoons of cottage cheese...a 4oz snack thingy of canned fruit and about four bites of a piece of pizza?

I am amazed I could eat this all because the past two weeks have been a struggle with restriction...way too much...PB'd and slimed alot...and then all of a sudden it's gone...

Even with the restriction I haven't lost anything and think I've been stuck on a plateau...so I read that you have to eat to keep your body from going into starvation mode...so today I ate!

Does this all seem right? Today is my 4 month bandiversarry and sometimes I feel like I just got it yesterday!

[Alexandra 55]

Hi Jennye,

Nope, I wouldn't consider that too much to eat at one sitting at all. Unless you're only sitting for 5 minutes, in which case I'd say yes, you're eating too much.

But over the course of a 20- or 30-minute meal, I'd be able to eat just about that much and be satisfied but not stuffed.

It's astonishing that I think that's an adequate meal now. Prior to banding that would have been what I ate while getting dinner on the table.

[Graceful One 4]

Alexandra,

Thanks for the reply...sometimes it just helps to bounce ideas off of my fellow bandsters...I guess the main reason I've been concerned is I had been SO restricted and now I could eat all that and not even feel like PBing...oh this damn fickle band!

[bobby_hamrick 0]

I have tried to figure an angle or two on this restriction changes. I have a couple ideas. One the amount of sodium in you r body will effect the way you feel as in titer. I also believe if we go many hours without eating or drinking we relax and constrict. I think this is why most people are resrticted when they wake up. The hydration and sodium was brought to my attention by the Dr. the other is my own brainchild. I can eat what you did easily by the way. If I drink with meal and I know I need to eat I can wash it on down. If I haven't ate well for a few days and I am exercising intense I will try to get some major Proteins down in a days time.