joleza

First of all I want to tell you I love your screen name, chunkarella, that's really cute. And secondly thank you I think that's very good advice

Oh my gosh I just got on here to post the exact same thing I am now 8 weeks out and have lost 22 pounds. But for the last 10 days I've been at 22 pounds. while my diet has not been absolutely perfect I'm averaging between 509 and 800 calories a day, how is it even physically possible that I am not losing weight my gosh if this is a plateau and I finally get over it I'm going to drop 10 pounds overnight hahaha.

Yes that is the amount of search and told me I should eat at each meal no more than that sometimes and in the early weeks it was enough but now I want more

That sounds like that would be a wonderful amount of food. No my surgeon told me 4 teaspoons per meal and then at 4 months I can go to 1/4 of a cup and then increase it a fourth of a cup out until a year where one cup is the max I can take in but how that equates to ounces I'm not sure thanks for your input

According to my surgeon at 6 weeks out I should be having about 400 to 600 calories a day I don't know how you're able to take in 1200 calories without being really in pain. Are you choosing bad calories? One thing I'm finding out if this is not easy but I do know this, if you do the right thing the results will come

gaaa! this is a hard week. i am hungry. doesnt feel like head hunger, i feel it in my stomach. I want to eat more than my puny 4 teaspoons of food for dinner. is this a phase common to this time out (6 weeks) or am i just having issues?

really good question, i was also wondering that. my dr is saying 4 teaspoons, which depending on what that is could be several ounces, or not even 1. it is all very confusing. i am at week 6 today. i am just excited that in 2 more weeks i can move up to 1/4 cup, which is more than 4 teaspoons for sure. this is hard, and i want to eat a big salad.

wow, that sounds like so much more than i can eat at one time. and certainly more than you should be eating. No judgement, i am still in a place where i want to eat more. but i know if i ate even half that i would feel so uncomfortable. wish i could offer some advice. you posted a week ago, is it still this way?

You both are exactly right I need to be very diligent in practicing the portion control. My real question was why was I even able to ingest that much food without feeling sick it seems like when I took that one bite too many I should have felt something. I realize now I was emotional eating due to a personal issue but my question stands if I can't always make the best choices shouldn't my reduce stomach size stop me in my tracks? I'm feeling much better today thanks

So the first time I ate a little bit of crab meat it was all I could do swallow a couple of bites now here I am at week 4 and I ate one and a half crab cakes and they went down just fine is. I'm concerned that I was able to eat that much other than the fact that I shouldn't have shoved all this food down my gullet. have I done permanent damage? Why in the world was I so hungry? Or was it may be emotional eating now after I have eaten it I'm starting to feel kind of sick to my stomach but it went in just fine I'd appreciate your thoughts

Thanks guys I feel a lot better knowing this

Yesterday I had my post surgery 2 week checkup. All is well. The nurse told me I should begin taking my bariatric vitamins the next day and then she said something that kind of shocked me. She said I no longer need to eat vegetables or fruit because this vitamin will give me everything that vegetables and fruit can give me. I find this horrifying because I love vegetables, and can't imagine never eating them again. Have others been told this?

hey there. go out to you tube and type in leslie sansone. she has a million walking videos you do in your house. fun music and easy stuff. a great way to start. give it a try.

yes, totally. i call it eye hunger, or memory hunger. my stomach is not telling me i am hungry, but i so badly desire a chipotle bowl or a slice of pizza or even a big salad with tons of stuff in it. only 2 weeks out. i have notice that if i take too big of a gulp of my chicken broth or protein shake, i get a very uncomfortable feeling in my stomach, so that sort of tells me i am not hungry. lots of talking to myself these days to change old behaviors. you will get there too.

10 days out. Still on my liquid diet of protein shakes and chicken broth and sugar free popsicles. I feel ravenous like I could eat everything I don't know if it's eye hunger, or just the deprivation of anything resembling chewing. Tonight I went over to visit my boyfriend and I ended up meeting a small piece of chicken jerky. I chewed it and chewed and chewed it and now that I've eaten it I feel so guilty and I'm waiting for my stomach to explode or something. I needed to confess because I feel like I've done a bad thing anyone else had this happened to them? I'm getting nervous that when I can eat I'm just going to eat everything please somebody tell me that the smaller stomach and the ghrelin reduction will kick in