Hmm, I found something very interesting today.

I was trying to find out where I got the 6oz from, I assumed I looked up the size of the stomach and came up with 6oz to lose weight.

I did another search today to see if I could find more evidence of this and I ended up on weight loss surgery sites. Apparently when they staple your stomach it can be as small as 2 ounces to begin with, then in stretches to up to 6 ounces. In a weight loss surgery guide it stated that after surgery you can eat no more than 3 meals a day of between 4 - 6 ounces.

Now without painful surgery, this is exactly what my plan does. However, I assume that after surgery, eating 4-6 ounces of food 3 times a day would help you lose weight to a certain extent. But I've never seen anyone extremely thin from this type of surgery. So I guess the weight loss must stop at generally the 'normal' weight range. What I am trying to say is that after weight loss, going to a 6oz portion size would surely help maintain weight!

So for me to eat 4oz per meal or even less is I think satisfactory for weight loss. I was unsure about going this low as I thought it may be unhealthybut this is the normal about for patients recovering from surgery AND the weight loss surgery guide has some good tips like making sure there is enough protein etc in the diet. Which is what I do. So I guess I wasn't far off after all.

Since my weight loss has slowed a little, I don't think there is any problem with me going a little bit lower. Perhaps to 3 oz. This is half of what I should be eating when maintaining my weight. So once I've lost the weight I can slowly increase to 6oz to maintain.

I'm excited now, I will hopefully drop the weight easily on 3oz. If weight loss surgery patients can do it, so can I.