How many oz of food should I be eating at 2 months out?
I just ordered a food scale off of ebay this morning. I want to be sure I am not going to over eat, so how many oz should I be eating at one meal? And how many at my snacks? I am one of the unfortuante ones who has hunger, REAL hunger, every 3 hours, it is like a baby and my belly gets hungry 3 hours on the clock. I drink inbetween meals, I have even woken in the middle of the night hungry and I had to take a few bites of something so I could fall back to sleep. This even gets tiring trying to eat every 3 hours, mad!!!! I am a busy Mama here and could go 5 hours before surgery without feeling hunger. I do 3 meals a day and snacks between. At one meal I can eat 1 scrambled egg with 1/2 piece swiss cheese. I can't weigh that yet until I get my scale but does this sound normal?
Thanks greatly!
I had the sleeve almost 2 months ago, lost 44 lbs thus far (this includes the 8 lbs I lost during the 2 week liquid diet). 268 the day before my liquid diet, now 224. Does this sound normal?
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frisco
SW 338lbs. GW 175lbs. Goal in 11 months. CW 148lbs. WL 190lbs.
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For two months out..... One scrambled egg and a 1/2 piece of Swiss sounds just about right......
OK... to be technical...... It's not really the weight of food.....
Your sleeve was sized for volume.....your sleeve doesn't know how much things weigh......
As you get a little further out and start adding more foods it would be best to use containers that are sized..... At about 3 months out.....2-3oz. by volume is about right......
I used to go by volume for everything......some things are hard to measure..... you have to imagine how compact some things would be after chewing.....
That all being said..... I have since started using a scale for measuring proteins.....As far as I can tell from several tests.....it comes out pretty close.
Remember.... always eat under your sleeves capacity....it's not about finding "full"..... looking for full is a risky deal.....So easy to go over when you come so close to the edge.
frisco
SW 338lbs. GW 175lbs. Goal in 11 months. CW 148lbs. WL 190lbs.
" To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art "
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Here is my engineer's perspective about weighing and measuring. One fluid ounce of water weighs 1.043 ounces on the scale. Most food is mostly water, so has a similar density to water.
So a portion of most food, weighed on the scale, occupies less than the same number of fluid ounces measured in a cup (i.e., 2 oz. of water on a scale is 1.92 fluid ounces in a cup). Denser foods (say, beef jerky) will occupy even less space in a measuring cup.
So weighing usually underestimates measuring (volume) on an ounce-for-ounce basis. Foods that are less dense than water (foods that would float in water, which are mostly fats) can be over-estimated by this method. I can't image eating enough fat to cause a volume problem. Just my nerdy approach.
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53 yrs old, 5'6" HW: 293 ConsW: 273 SW: 263 CW: 206 
For breakfast- most mornings I will just have a baby bell (not really a morning eater) but I can eat a sausage link and like three bites of eggs if I cook.
Lunch- I can do 1 ounce of cheese and 1 ounce of meat. Occasionally I will add two crackers to the mix
Dinner- I always measure out exactly 2 ounces of meat, and less than an ounce of veggies. I almost always have at least veggies left over- sometimes meat too. I have days I can tolerate it all and days that I cannot.
Snacks- almost always a cheese stick or 1oz of beef jerky.
This keeps my carbs under 40, my calories right around 600, and the scale dropping =)
(I have lost 33lbs since surgery on 9/14 and and lost 5lbs on my week pre-op diet)
Best of luck to you! =)
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start weight-288 pre-op -5lbs month 1-23lbs month2-14lbs month 3-minus 13lbs month4-minus 12lbs month5-13lbs month 6-8lbs GOAL-21months out after having a post-WLS baby!
remember that everyone is different. one persons normal is not everyones
That being said, 2 months out an egg sounds pretty "normal". 2 months out I could probably only eat 1/2 ounce of meat at a stting.
11 months out almost and I eat 2 ounces of meat at a time, a little more if it isnt dense like chili . or 4 ounces of soft stuff like cottage cheese. dont push your sleeve to eat more. take advantage of your restriction.
and make sure you are taking your acid controller, acid can mimic hunger especially at night. if you arent on one it may be the reason you are waking up at night.
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I also weighed 268, and lost 6 lbs by having the flu a few weeks before my surgery. Now I weigh 218, so our stats are very similar.
