I trying to get a better understanding of food proportion

Jeez! I don't think I ever ate that much in my life.

You guys really could pack it away.

4 before surgery easily. Now maybe 1 if that.

Depends if it was all at once or not. I think I could eat 2 slices. But later I would go back for leftovers and eat one more.

Now? 3/4 of a piece of thin crust. Early out, maybe just a few bites.

Yep I could easily (and did often) eat a large pizza and some wings while drinking a soda. At 6 months post-op, I have been afraid to try it except once for fear of it being a binge food. When I did eat it that once, it was a fancy place and a type I wouldn't normally order and ate toppings of one piece and maybe half of another piece with the crust.

I could eat an entire small pizza and I'd also be having some wings, breadsticks and brownies!! That's right people. Probably some jalapeño poppers too. I had a huge capacity to eat.

Now I can eat half a small salad, and about 1.5 small pieces. Sometimes. Sometimes that's too much and I can only do half a slice. It's different every day.

Here's another visual- before surgery I could eat this before and would:

Now I can only eat maybe half the little hummus and crackers pack.

I used to binge eat and it's physically impossible for me now, thank goodness.

Yeah, I binged too. Now that in officially post-op I don't know what hungry is anymore. After nearly 3 weeks of nothing but liquids.. I don't look at food the same way.

Things even taste better now, but I'm not compelled to binge... Not even a little.

Worst binge for me?

Large stuffed meat lovers pizza a slice of carrot cake and some cordon blu bites with half a gallon of diet tea...

Or

2 boxes of cheeseburger helper with 3 lbs of ground beef & a half dozen cronuts.

Now my binge is like a cup of broth and a Protein shake with a few sips of Water.

Before = 6-8

After = Lucky to finish one

Of course, thats a single sit-down to eat. WLS helps to restrict the amount of food we can consume at one 'feeding'.

The challenge is to avoid eating 'little meals' throughout the day.

-RC-

pizza Hut was like my personal drug. I could easily eat an entire pizza by myself over a 24 hour period. And I didn't just order one pizza, it was usually two, plus breadsticks, cinnamon sticks and one of those humongous Cookies, all washed down with oodles of Coke Zero. I could be stuffed to the gills one minute, and ready to start eating all over again a minute after that. I could eat it hot or stone cold. I was always hungry.

At five months out from surgery I haven't had pizza, bread, sweets, or soda of any kind. I'm trying to eat and live as clean as possible. I know my weaknesses. Now that my hunger has been tamed though it's so much easier. The longer I'm away from it, the less tempting it's become.