6 Months Post Surgery

[Reet 18]

I've lost 78lbs in 6 months & feel great. BUT, I've noticed I'm eating more than I was. I'm starting to worry about over eating. Anyone have suggestions?

Yesterday's food: 1/2 english muffin with Peanut Butter & strawberry jam, snack-protein bar, lunch vegetable Soup (1cup), snack-protein bar, dinner 1 stuffed shell & salad, snack-trail mix. 2 cups coffee, 2 servings Water & 1 serving milk.

I'm not a big water drinker. I try & try, but I keep falling short of the 8 servings.

[Holly5.3 423]

To me (but what do I know only 2 weeks post-op), it looks like your daily calories is around 1000. Am I right? Maybe it's the carbs fault! I love to blame carbs for everything! Are you logging your food on MyFitnessPlan or anything like that? Then you can check out your daily and weekly fat, carb. and calorie intake. You may be surprised to be taking in more than you think! I thought I was barely getting my min. Protein req. in until I started entering everything into MFP-now I see that by dinner I've met my max. (80 grams) so i don't need to focus on high protein for that meal, my B, L and Snacks got it covered!

[Fair2bslimLady 72]

wow congra!!! cant wait to get sleeved, . I notice you dont have enough Protein, my nut told me I must keep protein to the majority of my meals to keep the "Hunger demon" away

[Chimera 644]

Well done! I would be careful with the Snacks and the carbs. I am not sure what your NUT has you at for Protein - mine has us at 80 a day which leaves very little room for much else. I just hit 5 months out and notice i can eat more too - I certainly can eat a whole lot more non-protein food than i can of dense protein - I too point to carbs as the font of all evil - certainly processed ones, they just make me hungry and stall my WL.

[bkz3 17]

I would say it's normal to be able to eat more at 6 months out then you could within a few weeks or a month or 2 post op. I'm only 3 weeks post op, so I don't have much "experience" yet, but I do have a very good friend that was sleeved 1 year ago now, and I know she commented that she has to be careful and really pay attention to when that full signal hits. When she feels satisfied she stops, even if she thinks she could eat a little more, because she's worried about reversing everything and stretching her stomach out again, because I've read/heard that can happen if you're not careful. We'll always have to be careful of that, the sleeve is just a "tool" not a "quick fix" or anything, we will always still have to do the work (exercise, eat right, etc) BUT, if I remember right, what my dr told me is that when you're first sleeved, the new stomach is about the size of a pencil (right after surgery), but over time (not sure how much time), as you heal and eat normal, the "final normal size" of the stomach should be about the size of a medium banana and the normal portion of food at meals will be about 1 cup maybe 1 1/2 cups. I was also told just the 3 regular meals a day and no snacking, other then maybe milk or a Protein Shake, or your other liquids. Since we can't drink with meals, we have to be sure to get in our right amount of liquids in between the meals. I may be telling you things you already know, but that's my 2 cents! lol

[Reet 18]

I had stopped using my fitness pal, but I started again yesterday. My Nut. wants me to eat 6 times a day, small meals & Snacks. I've got to replace one of the Protein Bars. I'm still loosing weight, not at the rate I was, but I'm still going in the right direction. I just was worried about getting the feeling back of over eating.

[sheemashema yall 2]

Wow I thought it was only me ,this week made my 6 month surgeversry an I feel great an look great but everyday I stress my self out am I over eating.gosh why does this have to be so stressful I just want to enjoy the success an relax.