Does anyone else hate eating real food because you’re afraid to stretch out your new stomach?

I’ve been watching my 600 Pound Life and the Dr. Says gastric sleeve is just as effective in the short term as gastric bypass. Is this because the sleeve is easier to stretch out?

Stomach stretching is NOT a thing. Total myth:

Your stomach is a muscle so it does stretch & it also contracts - it’s elastic. If you are very determined to eat huge volumes of food, overeat past your full signals, multiple times a day, for a very long period of time you may be able to stretch it or at least reduce the muscle’s ability to contract again (worn it out) as well as it did. As Dr Weiner says: eat & drink to your signals & when you get the signal stop. Together with eating your appropriate portions & not more often than your appropriate meals & snacks you won’t stretch your tummy. Eat up & get in your nutrients & enjoy.

PS - Dr Weiner is fantastic. Great videos on a wide range of topics on his You Tube channel if you’re interested.

Thanks @Arabesque I will have to look that up.

Losinglosinglosing thanks for the link unfortunately I couldn’t pull the video up.

agree with Arabesque. it supposedly takes a lot to permanently stretch out your new stomach. As in overeating day after day after day. An occasional day of overeating is not going to do it.

Your stomach is a muscle so it does stretch & it also contracts - it’s elastic. If you are very determined to eat huge volumes of food, overeat past your full signals, multiple times a day, for a very long period of time you may be able to stretch it or at least reduce the muscle’s ability to contract again (worn it out) as well as it did. As Dr Weiner says: eat & drink to your signals & when you get the signal stop. Together with eating your appropriate portions & not more often than your appropriate meals & snacks you won’t stretch your tummy. Eat up & get in your nutrients & enjoy.

PS - Dr Weiner is fantastic. Great videos on a wide range of topics on his You Tube channel if you’re interested.

Dr. Weiner and Dr. John Pilcher are both so informative to me, and so calming to watch whenever I have questions about WLS.

Dr. Weiner has informative videos. He is in Tucson, AZ now and in the same practice as my surgeon, Dr. Guillermo Higa.

Thank you everyone!

8 hours ago, Tomo said:

Dr. Weiner and Dr. John Pilcher are both so informative to me, and so calming to watch whenever I have questions about WLS.

Oh yes I agree. Dr Pilcher is very good too.