Second part of my question...

Would you consider this too much to eat at one sitting?

About 5 sugar snap peas, 5 baby carrots, 3 pepper slices and some dip...two teaspoons of cottage cheese...a 4oz snack thingy of canned fruit and about four bites of a piece of pizza?

I am amazed I could eat this all because the past two weeks have been a struggle with restriction...way too much...PB'd and slimed alot...and then all of a sudden it's gone...

Even with the restriction I haven't lost anything and think I've been stuck on a plateau...so I read that you have to eat to keep your body from going into starvation mode...so today I ate!

Does this all seem right? Today is my 4 month bandiversarry and sometimes I feel like I just got it yesterday!

Hi Jennye,

Nope, I wouldn't consider that too much to eat at one sitting at all. Unless you're only sitting for 5 minutes, in which case I'd say yes, you're eating too much.

But over the course of a 20- or 30-minute meal, I'd be able to eat just about that much and be satisfied but not stuffed.

It's astonishing that I think that's an adequate meal now. Prior to banding that would have been what I ate while getting dinner on the table.

Alexandra,

Thanks for the reply...sometimes it just helps to bounce ideas off of my fellow bandsters...I guess the main reason I've been concerned is I had been SO restricted and now I could eat all that and not even feel like PBing...oh this damn fickle band!

I have tried to figure an angle or two on this restriction changes. I have a couple ideas. One the amount of sodium in you r body will effect the way you feel as in titer. I also believe if we go many hours without eating or drinking we relax and constrict. I think this is why most people are resrticted when they wake up. The hydration and sodium was brought to my attention by the Dr. the other is my own brainchild. I can eat what you did easily by the way. If I drink with meal and I know I need to eat I can wash it on down. If I haven't ate well for a few days and I am exercising intense I will try to get some major proteins down in a days time.