Meal Question

[gina O]

What is the standard amount per meal portion. After 2 years. I forgot does anyone know. Is it really true that soda stretches out the pouch. If you have one cup a day, will it really stretches out. I fine myself able to eat more now then before. Just worry. is that a bad thing, and if it is true about soda how much can it stretch over time. gina

[elaine]

Hey Gina,

Don't you still have your blue folder girlfriend. You really need to come to the meetings. Pat did a meeting a couple of months ago on soda. It can stretch your pouch. Ckeck the post about the meetings I am sure Regina made notes on it. You should post to Pat and ask your questions or maybe call her, shes always willing to help.

later girl.......~elaine

[Regina]

Your ABSOULTLY Correct Elaine. Pat did talk to us about drinking soda. I wrote about it in this month’s newsletter. Here is what was said about it at our meeting:

Pat our nutritionist talked about drinking carbonated beverages after gastric bypass surgery. What she told us is that it is not a good thing to do. The reason that she gave was that when you drink carbonated drinks even if it is seltzer or diet soda it still has carbonation in it. If we drink this, all it does is stretch our new stomachs and fills us up with air. Pat explained that we only have a small stomach and there isn’t as much room in there as their used to be. Therefore, what happens is by drinking the soda we are filling up with air. If we are full then that means we will not have room for food. If we try to eat when we have all that gas in our stomachs from the carbonation then we will more then likely get sick. One of the patients asked what if it was flat.
Pat said that you woudn’t know if it was flat or not and so she suggests that it is something that we should just stay away from, although the choice is yours in the end.

The best thing Gina is to stay away from it. It serves no purpose at all. The only thing it is going to do is stretch your stomach. Try to find other things to drink.

If you can remember that when we first started and we saw Pat that was one of the things that we were told that we couldn’t have any more. We all knew going into this surgery that there were things that we won't be able to have anymore and soda from what I remember was one of them.

So try to find something else all it is going to do is fill you up with air which means you won't have room for the food that needs to go in your stomach. The other thing is that it will stretch it out and then eventually you will have more room for food, which in the end can mean a weight gain.

So the choice is yours I know my choice is and has been NOT to have it.