Stomach stretching!?!?

[tlah 40]

I started weight watchers 6 weeks prior to surgery it has helped tremendously also made approval easy ww counted however if anyone is interested sparkpeople. Dot com is free and its like ww online while we all fund our way to this lifestyle along the way if you graze substitute it with lower calorie carb items. We can do this

[Banned member 320]

I thought I was eating a lot per meal until I started measuring my meals and 1/2 cup of food makes me full. Hell I just measured out 2/3 cup of food and couldn't finish it. I'm 7 months post op and still have great restriction. I did slip back into grazing but a meeting with my NUT has me back on track. I measure and weigh my food but I don't bother with counting calories since my NUT told me to stop counting cals. If I grazed I could easily eat 2000 cals and I have before! Now I'm back to eating under 1000 cals and it's a lot harder now that I'm further out but now its easier.

[orthoman 114]

I would definitely say that it's possible to eat more now at 4.5 months postoperative than I could the first month out, but I'm really not all that hungry, and I find that I am still Satisfied on WAY less food than ever before in my life. However, all of the slider foods, like carbs, crackers and the like, really go down easy and you still have to make a conscious decision to NOT eat that stuff all the time! BUT staying away from that junk is MUCH easier mentally for me than any time I can remember in my life! not sure how much of that is mental, and how much of that is the physical limits of the sleeve, For me personally, my desire to eat bad stuff has gone WAY down....