3 meals a day? 6 smaller meals a day?

Let me start by saying, this is not typical and I have not seen any other doctors recommend what mine does. I am just sharing with you my experience. My doctor says don't eat if you aren't hungry and at 8 weeks post-op, I still have no hunger, so I only eat a small portion of lean meat every other day. Sometimes I'll have a little bit of a veggie with it also. Other than that I drink 1 cup of 1/2 decalf coffee, 4-5 bottles of water (2 of them usually with Crystal Light), and 8oz of light soy vanilla milk. per day.

Ideally three meals a day with two very small high Protein Snacks if desired (light protein shake, cheese, egg, etc.).

I'm a week and a half out and am averaging two meals and one snack a day. My calories are sitting between 600-900 and I'm not hungry after eating about 3/4 of a cup. I have 2 cc in a 10 cc band from a passive surgical fill (the Dr. puts a syringe with saline in the port but they don't push anything, they let the vacuum of the port pull in what it needs to balance itself).

My typical day:

Protien shake for breakfast

Greek yogurt mid morning

Lunch--primarily Protein (chicken shortcuts, cheese stick, chopped turkey pepperoni with some low cal dressing)

mid afternoon snack (0ften almonds....)

dinner

sometimes and evening snack.....depends on the day

I keep my calories around 900-1100/day

60-70 gms protein

If I am hungry--I eat

If i am no...I don't

Jackie

Here's a typical day's food for me. I've been eating pretty much this amount everyday since my 1 year surgerversary. :-)

I plan to use my band for portion control and to stop eating before I'm full. Meanwhile I want to use the knowledge that I was giving from several nutritionist and try to eat three meals and to small snacks. And when I say meals I'm supposed to eat a half a cup so I'm probably going to only eat a third a cup. And my snack is going to consist of some type of protein whether it's the serving of cheese, yogurt or protein bar. That way I don't go over my calories but I do keep my metabolism boosted. I'm going to see if that works for me and if it doesn't then I will try something else.

Edited August 6, 201510 yr by fitme

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