A year out from surgery, what is your daily diet consist of?

[finallyfree! 84]

I wonder when we talk of small portion sizes that we eat now, how the size compares with a person who 'naturally' weighs the same? The portions are tiny for us because most of us ate much, much more pre surgery. I mean supermodels eat extremely small amounts. What I mean is, are we eating the same amount as other people our goal weight and it only seems small to us, or is it a 'normal' portion for our size? If anyone can understand that ?

I wonder when we talk of small portion sizes that we eat now, how the size compares with a person who 'naturally' weighs the same? The portions are tiny for us because most of us ate much, much more pre surgery. I mean supermodels eat extremely small amounts. What I mean is, are we eating the same amount as other people our goal weight and it only seems small to us, or is it a 'normal' portion for our size? If anyone can understand that ?

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

@@FinallyFree! ... good point about portion sizes.

When someone says, "I eat only small portions ...." I know I don't know how large or small their portions really are.

When someone says, "I ate 3 ounces of chicken ...." I assume they either (1) actually weighed the chicken they ate or (2) they guesstimated how much chicken they ate, in which case they were either right or they were wrong.

Portion creep happens. I have to periodically measure everything to keep creep from happening on my plate.

And the one food I ALWAYS have to measure (or I will always under-guesstimate how much I'm eating) is cheese. Damn, cheese. I love it so much. And that's why I keep weighing it.

[finallyfree! 84]

Good point. I adore cheese. I can see I will have to put in some structures. I am still on mash but I learn from you guys, and bookmark the warning bells. Thanks.