Just can't stomach this!!

10-30-2005, 01:06 PM

I have a question for anyone who can answer. While you are losing weight does your "old" stomach shrink ? You would think that it would get smaller because of less food going into it so I was just wondering.
Thanks,
Jolynn

10-30-2005, 03:05 PM

Hello, is anyone out there today.lol
Just check'n
Jolynn

maysa · 10-30-2005, 03:41 PM

In my experience, yes I can definately say that my old stomach has shrunk. When I didn't have good restriction I could eat and my pouch wouldn't fill up, but still with a small amount of food I would feel a fullness in my "old" stomach that was different than having a full pouch.

NJChick · 10-30-2005, 04:10 PM

Well I think the stomach shrinks. Before I lost 150 lbs (YEARS ago) I could down 2 big macs, nuggets, fries, apple pie and a shake w/no sweat. After I lost the 150, I couldn't even finish a regular burger.

Of course the more I gained the more I could eat...vicious cycle isn't it.

vinesqueen · 10-30-2005, 04:38 PM

yeah, I think it shrinks, but I can't prove this :)

adorKable · 10-31-2005, 04:06 AM

According to Anne Collins:

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Your stomach is a muscular organ and like any muscle it expands and contracts according to usage. So it stretches when it's full and returns to it's initial size when empty.

However, it's not possible to permanently enlarge or reduce the size of your stomach by eating.

Marimaru · 10-31-2005, 02:53 PM

I think mine has definitely shrunk. I can tell this most when I eat soup, or something else that goes through the band. Even when I eat things like this now, I can't eat nearly the amount I used to be able to eat, and I can feel that it's in the main part of the stomach, not that my pouch is full. The same thing happens when I drink alot of water or something like that.

HarleyNana · 10-31-2005, 09:34 PM

Yeah it shrinks, that's why you have to get fills silly girl!

Jachut · 10-31-2005, 11:33 PM

Well the amount of fat around the outside of it reduces, that's why it "shrinks" but physically the actual muscular stomach doesnt shrink (and you'd have to eat an AWFUL lot in one sitting to stretch it) but you do make hormonal and psychological adjustments to less food. My surgeon told me that they dont know exactly why and dont really understand it but the body does make enymatic and hormonal adjustments to being banded so that you're not constantly starving. Remember that the pouch "tricks" you into fullness but your body would logically still know its on smaller rations. Yet it magically does adjust.

sunnykim · 11-01-2005, 12:05 AM

Im almost positive it shrinks i know i feel it when i guzzle water and things like that.

Kim

**Jack** · 11-01-2005, 08:11 AM

.....my current theory is the Band is a metaphysical example of how something can be smaller or larger on the *insided* without changing much on the outside.....we respond 'as if' it were smaller....and much of my preBand experience was dedicated to expanding the inside....which was never possible to satisfy of course....

I think what changes sizes is 'the Dragon' within....that Beast of Appetite and personal ruin....that savage creature that takes away our volition and reduces us to serving the pleasure of 'the Dragon'....and the more we feed it the more it wants and the more powerful it becomes....

This concept is a handy tool for me to use in mounting an effective assault on all those Old Habits when I feel control of what I stick in my mouth slipping away....

It's as if our old 'reptilian brain' kicks into a higher gear....switches into it's own Power Ranger mode....and seeks to fill the Cave that Can't Be Filled....from the outside, the only measure of this is ever-expanding waistlines.....

Curses upon the Dragon whatever the size....