5 day pouch test - day 1 report

[amyon2wheels 31]

I decided to do that 5 day pouch test I've heard about over the years. I don't think for a minute that my pouch is "broken" but I've heard from others that this 5 day plan gets you mentally and physically back on track and since I've gained 20 lbs over the past couple of years I figured I needed to try it.

I've noticed over the past year I have a bad binge cycle. I eat well for a few days and then go crazy. This probably scares the new sleeve patients and it should....bad habits lurk around the corner and our sleeve is a tool only not a miracle cure. Anyway, I am now an endurance athlete cycling long distances and running half marathons so I eat ALOT. I should choose good things to fuel my body but honestly I haven't been. So, time for change.

Google 5 day pouch test if you want to know details but basically it is liquid protien for 2 days, then soft protien for 1 day and then firm protien the last 2 days. A very shortened version of what you do right after surgery but you are doing it in only 5 days.

Yesterday was liquid only for me. WOW was it hard!!! I had forgotten what it was like to not eat food. I had a protien mocha frappe in the morning, protien hot chocolate, then a protien shake for lunch, chicken broth in the afternoon and evening and drank half an adkins shake. I felt very tired. I was supposed to ride about 40 miles on the bike and after 18 miles I called it good. Took 2 naps and I never nap.

Today I'm at work and have already had a cup of hot mocha protien coffee (Fit Frappe by Big Train) and then took an adkins shake blended it with a little PB2 and some ice. I brought broth with me and more powder for another shake. I am supposed to ride about 27 miles after work but we will see about that.

Weight loss so far - ready for this? NONE. That was not even right. No food and no Water weight loss? What the heck? LOL However - I feel so much more in control and so encouraged by doing this. I really am okay that the scale didn't move yet. It will. Stay tuned.

[Roo101769 742]

Very interested in hearing what your results are once you complete the 5 days. I have yet to be sleeved, but I am very curious about long term maintenance. This sounds like a very reasonable and "do-able" method of getting back on track. So much better than without the sleeve for sure...LOL

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

Some of us veteran's are doing the fastdiet. Also know as 5:2 diet. This is where you eat normally for 5 days and 2 days you eat 500 calories. We have done very well losing some of the stubborn lbs that we regained....Check it out in the Veteran's forum....

[amyon2wheels 31]

Thanks so much...I will check out that 5/2 plan. Once I finish this 5 days maybe I need to transition into that until the weight is off.

[Fat Pat no more 89]

Hang in there you can do it. Then you'll be back on track.