I'm not sure why. My doctor's directions were 2 oz for Breakfast, 2 for lunch, and 2 for dinner. When I read what everyone else is doing on the forum, it seems really different. Also different - I did not have to do a pre op diet. My surgery went smoothly, and so far everything is going well with recovery. My surgery was August 22. I really like my surgeon. One thing that helped me make my final decision to have surgery was that when I had an appointment with a different doctor (for something else), she walked into the examining room and I didn't even recognize her - she had lost so much weight and looked great. My doctor did her surgery and she told me he's an amazing surgeon and it was the best decision she ever made to have the surgery.
I am about 6/7 weeks out been on normal foods since week 4+ as was aproved by my surgeon when I saw him.
I thought it would be nice to share my experience as pre sleeve I would research what it would be like after ovcourse its different for all.
So I am on holiday at the moment. We were looking for a restaurant not all you can eat as I had it down ordering in a restaurant, but the tai driver mis understood and took us to an all you can eat buffet were you can not order food of the menu. My mum was worried and said we should go somewere else as I wont eat much here and she thought it was not fair for me to just watch everyone eating lol.
I said it was fine! I will have to come eventually etc.
So I looked around to see what I wanted to eat, and tried little bits, like olives some meat. 2 things I tried was a waste lol but unfortunately filled me up! My family was having a great time.. While they were off getting ice cream, I looked around..
I love people watching. My family ordered milkshakes, and everyone around had a drink with their meal. ( Obviously) The drinks looked refreshing.. I then felt my first moment of ' Aww I wish I could drink with my meal.. Or drink right now" I carried on looking around having a conversation in my head. Then I suddenly felt a burst of happiness " Hold on a minute , I have come to an all you can eat buffet were I usually would have had so many plates then the deserts, and I am not even tempted by the deserts, they looked so heavy. I felt happy then because my tool makes me feel superhuman to have all this food around but I have no choice, I have to only eat a small amount. I told my mum " This sleeve has changed my mind too, the thought of those deserts do not tempt me at all" And I had a great time, I enjoyed spending time with my family, and I was worried how I would deal going out to eat, but also ate at the restaurant in the hotel and I loved the duck and spinach starter I ate and took the rest to my room.
I feel really good, and 'normal' I do not feel like my sleeve is isolating me or making me not be able to do things which I worried about before, and saw others worrying. Even if I was still on liquids or soft there surprisingly was alot of options, so many Soups etc.
3-4 ounces depending on the density of the food. I ate a packet of the Starkist tuna Creations and it was yummy. I think I ate about 2 ounces of steak and an ounce of a sweet potato. I'm at 8 weeks now and it's probably close to the same. I had the tuna tonight and didn't eat the whole 2.8 pouch - i had a few rice crackers with it.
My average calorie intake per day for the last month has been 700 calories.
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