Anybody who knows about this test please explain.

It is supposed to tell you how much your stomach can hold. You can get a container of cottage cheese (usually they're clearly marked with how many ounce it contains) mark the level of the full container, and then start eating at a good pace until you are full and stop. Then you take a measuring cup filled with Water, and start pouring the water into the cottage cheese to measure how many ounces you were able to eat.

I did a form of the test, but I preferred to do it in a less messy/wasteful way: I measured out 1 full cup (8 ounces) of cottage cheese into a measuring cup, and ate from there. Once full, I tamped down what was left lightly to see how much I'd eaten. My results were my stomach could hold 6 ounces.

I discussed this test with my doctor, however, and he said it's complete BS.

He said that cottage cheese is too liquid to really fill up a pouch without immediately flowing out, so while you could conceivably eat fast enough to feel full, at least some of it had likely already left the pouch since you started eating and would give you a false sense of how much the pouch could actually hold.

He said he would be surprised if I could hold much more than 3-4 ounces of solid food. Liquid foods like cottage cheese or yogurt are not a good measure.

The only true test is to use dense Protein - meat. He suggested cooked chicken breasts (not canned chicken either - too moist). Anything with a high moisture content will slide through the sleeve faster than you think. Weigh a few cooked chicken breasts, then eat until full. Measure what is left. That would be a much more accurate measure.

Edited February 4, 201610 yr by FrankiesGirl

I have to agree with @@FrankiesGirl , I can eat a lot more of anything with moisture content than I can anything dry and dense. 3-4oz of chicken or steak, but 6 oz of fish, because fish has a high moisture content and basically turns to mush

I could eat way more cottage cheese than chicken breast, for sure!

Ditto to the above. I have tried and suggested the cottage cheese test, and it seems to be a medium-high estimate of your true capacity. I've experimented with different things and discovered the following capacities for my sleeve...

Hamburger or chicken breast - 3oz

Cottage cheese - 6 1/2 oz.

Thick Soup or Greek yogurt - 8 oz.

This is what I can eat very quickly (within 2-3 minutes) before I feel full, but not overly stuffed. I'm very pleased with my sleeve capacity considering I am just over 2 years out.

Thanks for all the reply. I'm about that capacity 3-5oz.