I Can Eat a Whole Sandwich...

[faybie 0]

That website is for gastric bypass. I think for those of us that have little restriction the food flows out faster than it would for a GB patient. Nonetheless, it's probably generally an accurate test. I'm going to try it! Of course, cottage cheese sort of makes me gag, but I'll try it anyway.

True. True. This test comes from a RNY bypass suggestion and even the lady who hosts the information is not even a WLS patient of any kind. I just found it to be very interesting.

faybie[/b]][begin analytical engineering tone now]

Here is a good website that I found on this board that help you determine what your pouch size is now:

http://www.geocities.com/sweetartz19...agecheese.html

I could have worded that statement much better. I should have said "Here is a good website that I found on this board that is suggested to help you determine what your pouch size is now:"

I imagine that this could work with other food other than cottage cheese as long as it wasn't liquid, soft serve frozen yogurt maybe? as long as you had the container to do the measuring and started with a specific measured amount. I also would not do this test in the recommended time myself. A lapband patient doing this test in the recommended time may very well cause a PB. I would do it in the normal amount of time that I eat, because that is in fact what I would want to measure. .....How much you are eating in a sitting, not how much you can shovel down in 5 minutes.

Those days of shoveling are long gone for us. Although, my first bite sometimes goes down like this until I realize what I have just done. LOL. Like your first bite ever of a mushy after surgery.

**Pureed strawberries and a dash of splenda added to the cottage cheese may also help eliminate the desire to gag over the cottage cheese.

[NeenBand 7]

THANK YOU ALL for your responses. My god, what would I do without you people???

I am eating PB&J on whole wheat, egg salad, soy burger or grilled cheese as my sandwich. No, I'm not losing weight. :-(

[NJChick 3]

I remember being able to eat ALOT of food until I hit the 2.0 cc's in a 4 cc band.

IMHO there's a big BIG difference between having 1.5 cc and going to 2.0 cc's. At least it was for me.

[Iulizbug 0]

I agree--for me the difference b/w 2.0 in my band and 2.7 was huge. At 2 ccs I could eat a whole sandwich, slowly but no way even a half at 2.7. Right now I am currently unfilled completely due to being too tight at 3.2 for a month and a half and I know I could eat two sandwiches if I wanted!! Not that I would......its crazy now that I am wide open I really arent' that hungry...I thought I would be ravenous but I guess I am just used to eating smaller portions from before. Its working so far. Not losing but not gaining either

~Liz~

03/10/06

241/168/160

5'7''

[mini_me 3]

.... Its working so far. Not losing but not gaining either

~Liz~

03/10/06

241/168/160

5'7''

i'll say it is working...look at you! you are almost to your 160 goal!! i was banded three days after you,and i am filled to 3cc's and i have only lost 19 lbs, and two of those keep sneaking up on me, like this is some kind of hide and seek game.

[Andy Liz 0]

Leenerbups - this is totally off topic, but I love the cowbell thingy!!! I have a t-shirt that says, "I've got a fever and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!" I laughed my buttocks off when I saw that and had to e-mail it to a friend of mine that finds it equally hilarious! Thanks for making me laugh today!

As far as the whole sandwich goes. I'm almost 4 weeks out now and can eat a pretty good amount of food. I haven't been measuring but I have been stopping when I'm comfortably full - I'm sure I'm eating more than a cup and can so far eat everything but soft bread very easily - as long as I chew well. I've had 2 very small PBs on canned chicken breast that were immediately relieved with a very small sliming and urp. I'm not eating that crap anymore, but I have had pizza, shrimp and smoked sausage without the casings. My weight was pretty well stalled but has started to slowly drop since I've been eating regular food. I just chew until there's nothing left to chew so I figure it has to be going through the band pretty quickly. I worry about stretching my pouch because I'm a quantity eater and I like to feel full, but I'm really trying to listen to my stomach and not my head! It's so hard and I fully understand that the band is a tool and not a free ride to slim and healthy - sucks though!

[itsyvonne 0]

I can only eat about 1/2 a sandwich ... and my level of restriction is on the looser side compared to what I know others can typically eat. From what you say, it seems like you could use another fill, but it would probably be good to get your fill(s) in very small increments since you tend to get irritated.

[liberty2003 0]

I have 1.75 cc in my band. I love the level of restriction i have. I can too eat a sandwich..But its not like i am binging..I eat and it keeps me full.

If i feel i've eaten to much i will just work out extra on the treadmill LOL

~Kristen

[puddin 7]

I have 1.75 cc in my band. I love the level of restriction i have. I can too eat a sandwich..But its not like i am binging..I eat and it keeps me full.

If i feel i've eaten to much i will just work out extra on the treadmill LOL

We're soul sisters, Liberty. I can eat a lot but not binge. If I eat too many calories in a day I work it off. I'm a big believer in being able to eat more and being more active. Of course, if I had that mentality a year ago I wouldn't need the band, right?

[La_madam 20]

There is an old saying "Just because you can , does not mean you should", this is where the band and the head have to work together as a team, the band is not a cure all, we still have to do some of the work. I used to always say to myself even when I did not feel satisfied that I needed to stop eating because I knew I had enough food to survive nutritionally. I now eat only when Iam hungry, not when I think Iam hungry like I did pre band and without my band now this is a battle but a battle I am winning.

[Woodys 0]

I too can eat a full sandwich, at times and only when the bread is very toasted. The amount I can eat and what I can eat is very erratic. I can't eat in the a.m. at all......not until at least 3 p.m. Then, sometimes I can eat a full sandwich, yet other times I can't eat much at all.

I have 8 cc's in a 10 cc band and most of the time I feel like I have reached maximum restriction but then it scares me when I read that some of you can only eat 4 bites of your meal or only 1/2 of a sandwich.

Carol