Sleeve Capacity - Cottage Cheese Test

[Lisa :) 231]

I'm not sure how I came across the subject, but I found a site where this surgeon came up with a way to test the pouch size of patients after gastric bypass. I figured that this particular test should work just as well for sleevers and, after a little more online research, I found that sleevers HAVE used the same test!!! So, I gave it a try. Here's how it works:

The Cottage cheese Test

• Purchase a container of small curd low-fat cottage cheese.
  
  
• Begin the test with a full container of cottage cheese, and perform the test in the morning before eating anything else. This will be your Breakfast on that day.
  
  
• Eat fairly quickly until you feel satiated, but not overly full (less than five minutes). Note that the small soft curds do not require much chewing. You are eating rapidly so you will fill the pouch before there is time for any food to flow out of it. After eating your "fill" of cottage cheese, you will be left with a partially eaten container that has an empty space where cottage cheese used to be.
  
  
• Measure the volume of cottage cheese you have eaten by filling a two cup (16 fl.oz.) measuring cup with Water. Pour water into the container of cottage cheese until the water level rises to the original top level of the cottage cheese.
  
  
• The amount of water poured into the container is the functional size of your pouch.
  

At one year out, my sleeve is holding almost 7 ounces.

I was also reading that this same test can be done using egg salad if you can't stand cottage cheese. Just be sure to cut the eggs up into pieces similar in size to cottage cheese curds.

Anyway...just wanted to post this since SO MANY people here ask about sleeve size on a daily basis!!

Hope this helps!!

[cataro 39]

Good to know, thanks!