I found this very interesting and even though I am less than 3 months out with my sleeve, I am going to try this when I get home! I have always felt like I have a bigger sleeve than most since I have no real issues eating anything and havent from the moment I could eat ice chips in the hospital.

A4 The Cottage cheese Test

So, how do you measure up? Are you accomplishing the feeling of satiety at each meal? Do you know how big your stomach pouch is? Would you like to? Nearly every patient is curious to know just exactly how big their stomach pouch is. The following technique is used by bariatric surgeons and patients to determine the functional size of a patient's stomach pouch.

The idea for this technique began with Dr. E. E. Mason, at one of the Iowa Bariatric Symposia in the early 1980's, who suggested that it might be useful to ask patients to eat cottage cheese, in a structured manner, to attempt to determine their functional meal volume at different times postoperatively.

Dr. Laytham Flanangan (website: Breakfast on that day.

Eat fairly quickly until you feel full (less than five minutes). Note that the small soft curds do not require much chewing. You are eating rapidly so you will fill the pouch before there is time for any food to flow out of it. After eating your "fill" of cottage cheese, you will be left with a partially eaten container that has an empty space where cottage cheese used to be.

Measure the volume of cottage cheese you have eaten by filling a two cup (16 fl.oz.) measuring cup with Water. Pour water into the container of cottage cheese until the water level rises to the original top level of the cottage cheese.

The amount of water poured into the container is the functional size of your pouch.

Dr. Flanagan's research indicates that the average volume of the mature stomach pouch, measured by this method, is 5.5 ounces (163 ml). Additionally, he reached the conclusion that, "sizes ranging up to 9 ounces have NO IMPACT on the person's success in weight loss". This means that unless your pouch holds a greater volume than 9 ounces (267 ml), the exact size of your pouch is not a critical factor in whether or not you can lose excess weight and then manage your weight as time progresses.

Is this book my doctor gave me it has this test and it says if u depise cottage cheese to use thick oatmeal

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never really noticed a smell to tell you the truth! For me it is the consistency that is messed up but I still love it! It makes my husband gag when he watches me eat it so that is a little fun for me too! ha!ha!

Add some sugar' date=' or blueberries, or blackberries or just salt and peper and it is tolerable.... LOL[/quote']

Add some pudding or Jello to it.i like patashio pudding in mine.

Well I just read about this so I thought I'd try it. I am always worried I can eat too much. Well, I would say mine is average. I ate 6 oz in about 8 min and am stuffed! Like feel yucky cause I'm too stuffed. I know it's supposed to be 5 min due to emptying. So if 5.5 is the average, I'm happy I'm average But I can eat more than this depending on what it is. Probably because oatmeal (my daily breakfast recommended by my NUT) is warm and thinner (than cottage cheese) and starts to empty. But I am just so relieved my sleeve is "normal"

If I didn't loathe cottage cheese, I would so try this. I am just so curious about what the functional volume of my sleeve is.

LOL! I was just thinking this....