Food Visuals and Portions after WLS // How much CAN and SHOULD you eat? | My Gastric Bypass Journey
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- You will see a lot of information out there on how much people are eating after surgery, and whether or not it's "okay." But a lot of times everyone talks about this stuff in ounces. What does that actually look like, and what are portion sizes actually like after bariatric surgery? I put together a few examples to show what visually to expect with smaller meals and a smaller tummy post-op, and how your plate might look after surgery.
I had RNY Gastric Bypass on December 1, 2020 at Mexico Bariatric Center in Tijuana Mexico with Dr. Rodriguez Lopez.
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This was very helpful. Thank you! Another video that's helpful is on the channel "Bariatric Surgery Info" and the video title is "How big is a bariatric portion?" As an aside, I finally got my date!!! November 8th!!! So happy! :)
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Congrats on your date! That time will fly by in no time!
Did you have the gastric bypass surgery or the sleeve gastrectomy? & Do u, or will you please from now on explain what is expected during traditional bypass, or sleeve gastric bypass, please. THANK YOU, obviously this video didn't need any distintion seperation
Dannon (protein) light& fit
Love the visuals! If anyone is struggling with this, my dietician said that the 4oz is not by weight but by volume so 1/2 cup so I use 1/2 cup containers to judge my amounts. Just sharing another perspective 😊
U are correct... For my case the quantity she showed quite a lot for me... I am 1.5yrs post op.. I still cant swallow more than 3 spoons. 3 spoons was maximum... 😢 Is it normal..?
TY!
Thank you for the visuals.. My surgery is in November. I’m very nervous. I think I can do this
This is an interesting upload to watch. On Thursday just gone, I had surgery from complications from my roux- en- Y surgery almost 2 and a half years ago. To cut a long story short, the surgeon (who did my initial surgery), told me I had stretched my pouch 80-100mls (80-100mg) when it should only be at 30-40mls; 40mls is about the size of one small hard boiled egg. He told me, with each meal, I should only be eating 30 - 40mls and then having protein shakes throughout the day, even 2 years out. I was mortified. After I had had my initial surgery, I saw a dietician for over 1 year post op, and she never told me this information. Don't be like me and stretch the pouch (that was not what my emergency surgery was for but it was done by the same surgeon who did the roux-en-Y).
What was your emergency surgery for? I just got my rny surgery on Monday
I'm 7days old after gastrectomy sleeve, really reduced some of my anxiety & confusion about food portions
I wish I found your video 1 week post-op. You are a wonderful teacher and I'm a visual learner too. Thank you.
I just got my sleeve yesterday and am home today. This is very helpful since I am at stage one.
What are you up to now ? Mine was done on May 19 and I’m still not able to eat but I feel very hungry !
@@geetankvatsI had my surgery 4 years ago I still have great restriction and I'm never hungry I have to force myself to eat because my stomach tells me I need to eat I had to try really hard to eat all of the food I was allowed after surgery everyone is different good luck with your journey.
@@geetankvatshow is it going now?
@@lynnk7222 I must say it went pretty well in initial 4 months. My weight went down from 120KG to 95KG. From last couple of months my weight is floating between 95-97 KG. However restrictions to eat are still there. I can easily feel that tool is restricting me to eat freely. To be very frank I’m overall happy with this and I think I took correct decision.
I have started and then stopped the WLS process three times now because I didn't want my life to be all about counting calories and obsessing over every bite I took. This video demonstrates to me that I can live a normal life and have a healthy relationship with food, based on taking cues from my body and listening to my needs. Thank you for sharing.
It’s the best decision I have ever made for myself.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video
34 Oz tumbler * 2 thank you so much and I'm about to go through it.
You make informed, intelligent content. A breath of fresh air in a universe where there is so much quack info out there. Thank you!
Thank for sharing this video..this has been one of the most helpful videos to me thus far..( I haven't had my gastric Bypass yet) still going through all of the insurance requirement stages
How did your operation eventually go?
Video very helpful. I’m 4 days post op
Thank you. Right in line with what my doc and nutritionist recommended
Great video! 10 months post-op from VSG and recently hit my goal. I'm considering trying for another 5-10 pounds in the new year just to firm up a bit, but I've decided to eat at maintenance calories through the holidays to give my brain and body a little break. That said, I've been a little worried that some days I can eat a little more than I could in the past (i.e. some days I can finish 7-8 ounces at a sitting instead of 5-6), and your reassurance that I'm still within "normal" parameters was helpful. Thanks for these videos--there's lots out there for folks planning for surgery or in the first few months post-op, but not so much for those who are a little further out, and starting to shift from the rapid weight loss phase to exploring sustainable approaches to maintenance.
Maintenance is a whole new beast and so many of us are used to always "dieting" and in the weight loss phase that switching over to maintaining and not actively trying to lose can be such a different and tough change. I hope to keep adding my voice to experiences with what it's like years after surgery as so many people kind of phase out after that point.
Could you do more videos like this I found like to be helpful.
I'm so glad I found you ❤️ thanks from the UK
Love the visuals ❤
Great video. Thank you!
That is SO COOL that you have ducks and they give you eggs!!! That is new to me, and I just find it so cool :)
Thank you so much for doing this video....I'm four weeks post op. I'm so excited to get started on this journey! Your explanation of what to expect was exactly what I needed!! Thank you!
I have evaluation next Monday. Thank you, very helpful!
Super helpful! Thank you!
I was told to get a TOTAL of 60-70 gms of protein/ day. So estimates to 20-24 Gm s of protien/ .
I so enjoyed this video! Thank you,we need a channel like this!
Thank you for your videos very helpful. You look great
So nice of you, thank you so much!! 🥰
My dietitian is crappy! I had to go over her head to her boss for her to answer my questions. I feel you when you can't eat the full amount of food. But I make it work.
You look great! Love the vids, keep ‘em coming!
Thank you!! ❤🥰
This is one of the most useful videos on this topic I have watched. Thank you for this one 🙂
Thank you immensely for this video. On August 6th, it's going to be a month that I had my gastric sleeve and I feel so overwhelmed on what and what not to eat. Going back to work in a week and now I kinda have and idea what to take for the day. Thank you against for this video again!
I’ve watched a lot of videos on this subject but this by far is the best
Thank you ! This is so helpful
Yes I myself love the car master yogurt
this is so helpful! thank you. I got surgery in 2 weeks.
How are you doing?
Great video. I just had surgery and this was very helpful. Thank you
5 weeks post RNY and I get worried when I can eat what I have measured out. Like am I even supposed to be eating that much. I need to check my papers, but I just know that the protein needs to be 3 ounces. What is everything else supposed to be? Like veggies or fruit, healthy fats and starch? I see my dietician on the 5th. I definitely get restriction faster on different foods than other foods and sometimes when I eat, I get sick of what I'm eating and call that meal done. Lol it's for sure a learning experience.
Everyone's medical team is a little different. At that stage, I was told 6oz total, so 3 of those being protein and then I could do 3oz of fruit, veggie, or other healthy side. I wasn't always able to eat the full 6oz as like you said, some things fill me up quicker. And sometimes I could eat all 6oz without any issues. It's weird like that 😋
Thank you for the video and being so real!! Loved it!
I loved the visuals thanks 😊
I love your videos so much! You inspire me
Thank you so much!!💗
Thank you so much for your input.
They have wheat tortillas and some have 30 grams of protein
Great info! Thank you! Glad I found your channel!
Thank you for your help/information 😊
So informative...Thank you!
Is decent size meal! Also, where is your veggies? 😂 Lol, they r telling me protein, Veggie, fruit, mutugrain. Trail mix is great idea. Like the beef jerky ( that's not too salty) Ham/or chicken & broccoli & cheese! Yummy
Wonderful video. Thank u
Thank you
Thank you for this video.
Oh man I look forward to your videos!!! I am getting a vsg with a intestinal switch like the duodenal switch
Thank you so much! When is your surgery date?
@@1FatBeet I am still waiting 😭 but I completed all of my pre-rec classes
But my insurance person who works why because of what happened
😊 Thanks for sharing good information
Preach girl!
Thank you for the info
Dang I was told no nuts or seeds for 2 Mos.
I am six months post op and I am getting super annoyed. i've only list 12 lbs the past month, i feel like i can eat a lot more and I am getting annoyed of always eating protein. I am also craving sweets all the time now. I sometimes weigh myfood, but i really need to start doing that again along with logging my food. I am still loosing weight but I feel as i should be much farther along at six months post op than 76.2 lbs loss post op. sigh. Maybe i should do a video about it instead of spewing all this out at you LOL. Keep up your work, you were the inspiration i needed to start my channel, but i have not consistently posted because i feel like i have no charisma on camera lol
This is why I always end my videos telling everyone to make sure to look at the big picture. Losing 12 lbs. in a month is phenomenal. Losing 76.2 lbs. in six months?! That's amazing! That's an average of almost 13 lbs. per month! Forgive me if I'm being too forward, but why do you not think that that's a good amount of weight loss? When people are looking into fad diets and advertisers are shoving information in your face on why you want to choose their service, they advertise losing 10 lbs. a month and everyone blows their mind. Yet us bariatric patients are not okay with 10-15 lbs. a month, even though it's way above average to lose that amount of weight per month. The CDC recommends losing 1-2 lbs. per week for healthy, steady weight loss which is only 4-8 lbs. a month compared to the 12-13 lbs. you're losing. Take a breath and try to look at the big picture on how far you've come. I know it's so difficult and I've been there, but all you'll do is stress yourself out and make yourself really upset over something that is worth celebrating and being proud. At 6 months I started putting more variation on my plate and eating more veggies because I was also tired of protein-everything and I really missed vegetables. Always prioritize the protein, but start to branch out with fruits and veggies and other whole foods to get a more varied diet and maybe that will help the monotony. You've got this, I say all of this with love because you are doing GREAT, you just need to see what I see! 💗💗
I never lost 12 lbs in a month. But I did lose 100 lbs my first year. I'm 1yr 2 months post op now and not really losing at all. I'm not gaining and I can eat whatever I want. I look at it this way 12 lbs is amazing 👏 be proud of yourself because what's the chances you could've done that before surgery?
I think it's really important to remember everyone loses differently. I'm one year post VSG and I've lost 80lbs. It's not as much compared to other people, but I feel really great in body and don't have the pain I did 80lbs ago. Do I wish I've lost more yes, but 80lbs is still incredible. :) Try not to compare yourself to others! ❤
@@1FatBeet This is so true. I am 6 months post RNY...lost 87 pounds since and lost another 87 pounds prior to surgery. I felt the same way. I saw a therapist yesterday. Take EVERY NSV in the world and use that as your guide! Down 175 pounds and doing things i could NEVER EVER do! Still want to lose another 55 pounds over the next 6 months. GO GO GO!! YOU CAN DO IT!
I really liked your video. You aren’t selling a product, just giving your own information. I haven’t had the surgery yet so seeing amounts of food is helpful for future reference.
Great info! But is that a duck bong on top of the fridge?
LOL no, it's a long cup from Vegas for the adult beverages 🤣
@@1FatBeet 🤣🤣🤣
I'm the opposite with the water. I prefer to drink out of a pint jar. It's 16 oz so I know I need like 4 or 5 of those and they go down pretty fast. A big cup is daunting. Also, I am like 5 days post surgery and I can drink a premier protein in like 10 minutes or less. Is that bad? Lol
Were told to sip alow. 1 ounce every 5 min. with my surgeon.
I drink mine down easy peasy
Get worried then bam any meat etc really lets me know I am a Bariatric patient
That’s a ton of meat! Yeeet nope
I am struggling with water intake 😢
I just had my surgery two days ago I can’t even focus on eating at all! I’m struggling with pain management, trying to sip protein shakes and IV water
One day at a time - you've got this! It definitely gets easier, but right after surgery can be tough.
Can I get both my liquid and protein in by using clear protein powder?? Would that be like a cheat code?
Did you feel safe on traveling and paying up front money for surgery?
Sometimes I scale sometimes I dont. I have to sometimes convince myself to stop eating because I wieghted it out and I should be able to eat whats on my plate but I cant take another bite
Ditto. The mental struggle is still very much there to clean my plate, and sometimes I'm like "but it's 6 oz. and already dished up!" I stopped weighing my food mostly and started focusing on just my internal fullness cues but there are pluses and minuses with that just like anything else. So far it seems to be working well for me at this point at least!
Felt like death without POACHED eggs or cottage cheese etc.
lots of shake protein
I'm 6 months post surgery and yet everytime I try to eat chicken or beef or pork even if it's like Chipotle or something even a kid's meal I wind up throwing up immediately. Yet I can eat Wendy's chili all day long or the chili that's from Campbell's I can eat in put a bunch of cheese and everything and eat far more of that and have no issue. Why is that?
What all of those kinds of cheese circles can i get & i didn't have a Kroger near by? & We can FREEZE the cheese " hockey pucks" Can u give me a list maybe i can order from Walmart or Amazon?
Did you have Rouen-y surgery or Sleeve surgery. I am dealing with a sleeve with Rouen-y and hiatal revision.
Dried fruit not in my diet due to high sugar content.
We all make our own decisions for what's best for us individually.
She is nice lovely girl but still eats carbs as crackers. She focused on weight of food but more importantly is the quality of foods, the timing and frequency how many times we eat even same amount of food and calories. Intermittent fasting healthy life style to deal with root cause of obesity even after gastric surgery. Body weight is just one thing but metabolically healthy is more important and needs education and application. The food she eats mostly processed foods. We should eat natural whole foods no human beings produced it and sold it in plastic containers.
I'm not allowed to enjoy a cracker now and then? Look, if that works for you, please by all means. It doesn't work for me to cut that out of my life completely. We have to all find the balance of what is realistic in our lives, and then I put in the work to make small improvements over time. We are all doing the best we can.
Also, just a disclaimer: please do not intermittent fast after bariatric surgery without consulting your doctor and ensuring your nutrient intake and vitamin levels are okay to support that kind of change.
You seem to have disappeared from your channel? too bad.. enjoyed your content
I'll be back.
@@1FatBeet That is 👍 The portions are bigger than I would have guessed. what is interesting to me comparing you and your food with Alexandria Rodriguez. She just posted about her " failed surgery". She is eating more and different food. You seem to be about the time out from surgery. She is clearly gaining weight again. Your habits are working for you. Good for you. I cant imagine going through the pain of surgery and gaining it back... heartbreaking but habits have to change.
I'm not familiar with her channel and I only watched a couple of her videos, but what I saw was about a month ago she said that the comments saying she's failed her weight loss surgery are really bothering her because she's lost over 100 lbs. since her surgery, her doctor says her bloodwork is great, and she feels better than she ever has. I wasn't able to see anything clearly posted from her about her weight and whether she's gaining/losing, nor was I really able to get a sense out of what she's eating on a daily basis. It sounds to me like she is doing her best and found success after her surgery, which doesn't look the same for everyone.
Just as a word of caution, it's hard enough trying to destigmatize the idea that weight loss surgery is the easy way out and is a lazy person's response to weight loss. Adding in the idea that then, after surgery, other people will scrutinize your every move and won't think you're doing it the "right" way can be really damaging. I haven't posted what I eat in a very long time, and in the last three months I have eaten VERY poorly (unbalanced, higher processed foods, over-snacking) due to huge amounts of stress and life events. It's a struggle to keep myself from buckling knowing I'm not doing everything "right," and I've taken a step back from CZcams because I know that trying to film and post videos would add to my current stress levels but also there would be unhelpful comments and discussions about whether or not I'm doing things right, whether or not I'm gaining weight, and whether or not I'm failing myself and others. The internet is full of people waiting around to point a finger and say "SEE? I knew it wouldn't work!"
I hope to release a video this week about what I'm going through, how I'm handling it, and how it's affecting my journey because I know people will relate and I always want to share the full story, but I'm also nervous of people scrutinizing my choices and my life because it doesn't fit into their idea of what they think this journey should look like.
im 2 mo out of rny and been stuck at the same weight for 15 days 😢 sometimes i feel like i eat way more than i should but it’s healthy food like turkey taco salad with black beans home made pico, cheese and some lettuce. or like eggs i make two but i never finish it. but why why am i still at the same weight at surgery i was 307 5.2 and half now 280 and stuck
Oh sweetie, you are going to have a lot of pauses and stalls along this journey, and it's totally normal. You aren't doing anything wrong. It's really common after 2-3 months to have a bit of a stall while your body adjusts and catches up with the rapid weight loss. You've lost almost 30 lbs in 2 months - that's phenomenal. Keep being consistent and try to look at the big picture and be proud of how far you've come, I know it's hard, but you're kicking butt!
How often do you eat?
So, you’re going by weight of food and not volume? I’m doing by volume, as I’ve been advised. I can’t imagine eating the amount of food you are showing. I haven’t been able to find a dr or dietitian that recommends measuring by weight. Can you help me understand this?
My understanding is that volume is a lot harder to measure accurately between different foods. For example, a cup of yogurt is very different from a cup of shredded chicken breast. Think of baking recipes where the most accurate way to follow the recipe is by weighing out your ingredients because volume is not very accurate and can depend on how much things are packed in or how it settles in the measuring cup. I've not personally seen many recommendations for measuring by volume, and my surgical team has always recommended by weight. When it comes to "not imagining eating the amount of food I'm showing," that is highly dependent on not only what stage you're at/how long since surgery, and honestly also depends on each individual as well.
Can one drink homemade green smoothies or green juice you after bypass surgery?
I think that might depend on how far out from surgery you are and exactly what is in the juice/smoothies. I would talk to your surgery team or doctor to be sure - too soon after surgery, you want to avoid anything with too much sugar, even if it's natural sugar.
@@1FatBeet thanks. just curious why protein powder which is such a processed food many loaded with sweetener alternatives is ok for the stomach after surgery but fruit isn’t. I’ll defintely ask my surgeon about that in my upcoming consult. Interestingly with the exception of a few people I’ve discovered on TikTok the majority who have WLS seem to eat mostly processed food (based on the posts on social media) after surgery when they get to the food eating stage
What hospital did you go to?
add sugar free jello to it ww hack
Rice HELL NO
Dumping City
Whole grain or wheat only
Not for everyone. Rice has never made me dump 🤷♀️
@@1FatBeet I wish 😭
So the reality is that over 80% of bariatric surgery weight losses fail within five years. The reasons why are very simple .... Continuing to eat the same foods which caused obesity in the first place (things like fried chicken, cake) .... Stretching out the stomach .... And the biggy? Grazing. Keep journaling your food intake and counting your calories.
There are certainly truths to what you are saying, no doubt. But I would exercise caution in saying 80% of WLS fail within 5 years for the simple fact that we are using a very clinical definition of failure. In those studies, they consider 50% excess weight loss as success, so if that threshold is not maintained, they say it failed. But guess what? We are humans. We have thoughts and feelings and nuance. If someone gains some of their weight back over time, but this surgery still saved their life, changed major habits, got them off diabetes meds... did they really fail? Is a specific number really what we should be using to say if you are successful? That's a very clinical doctor thing to do. And hey, statistics don't work without numbers, so it can't be completely faulted. But these numbers are used to scare people and I'm just not about that personally. Everyone has a very important experience they bring to the table that isn't recorded in numbers.
I answer from the perspective of firstly being a doctor, secondly having had a gastric bypass myself, and thirdly as someone whose mother died of obesity. I think the problem is not that someone loses 50% of excess weight (which is an achievement in itself) but that they keep it off - most don't sadly. And we know the reasons why people regain .... Better to have the surgery and be in possession of the facts that improve the long-term outcome. Postings like yours absolutely encourage and educate people. I had my surgery many years ago - last year, I had to have unrelated tests and the surgeon commented that my stomach pouch was so small that it looked as if my surgery was only six months old. However, at one point I had also regained 50lbs ..... The result of "grazing". I have long since lost it again but any information that assists in a fellow bypasser not having to flounder and wondering why they have regained is honestly important in my humble opinion.