The hardest thing since the surgery is learning new habits. Chew thoroughly. Eat slowly (SO hard for me, I’ve always eaten fast). Take 20 minutes to finish a meal. STOP as soon as you feel full.
I have found that I can only give myself what I know I can finish comfortably with my new stomach. I grew up in an Italian household who enforced the “clean plate club”, no matter how much food you were given, if it’s on your plate, you eat it. This is a VERY hard habit to break! So I’ve started using smaller plates and bowls, and only serving myself a small amount.
This is EXTRA difficult when you also have a family to feed. Finding a balance between what is healthy for me, and what my kids will eat, is still a work in progress.
Tonight we had pasta with meat sauce. I made two chicken sausages for me, one for tonight and one for tomorrow for work. I ended up only eating half of tonight’s, so I adjusted and took only a half to work tomorrow. I also split one serving of protein pasta between the two meals. Most days this is how it goes, I substitute where I can, and where I can’t, I just eat the protein part of the meal.
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