My First Holiday with a Pouch

My first holiday with a pouch, rather than a stomach, was as successful as I could have hoped for.  I watched as my family ate numerous things I could not-shrimp (too dense for my pouch right now), bread pudding (expands so my pouch can't handle it yet), chips and salsa (wasted calories), and cookies (wasted calories).  I measured out my  my ham for dinner.  My brother's jaw dropped when he saw how little meat 2 ounces actually was.  I ate 4 roasted potatoes with my ham and that was my dinner.  Not much for the average human...but thanks to my pouch it was a great holiday meal for me.

All in all the holiday was great.  I went through a lot a lot a lot of mind hunger.  For those unfamiliar, it is when you mentally feel like you should be eating, but you aren't physically hungry.  It takes a ton of work to recognize the difference and I'm trying to reprogram my mind in addition to my body.  The battle I'm waging with myself right now is a lot of work, but its all worthwhile.  I certainly wanted to eat more than I allowed myself, but again that was my mind and not my actual stomach.

Obviously, as my first holiday passed I feel I was as successful as I could be.  And I'm thankful that it went as well as it did.  :)