Stage 3- overeating

[ChopswyfT 1]

Okay everyone, I am freakin out here. I am on stage 3- mushy/soft stage. I was sooo hungry by dinner. I am supposed to only have 2oz per meal. Well, I had 4oz's (maybe 5oz) and I am so worried that I might have over did it. I can feel a very slight discomfort towards the middle of my back.

I've read things about band slippage from over eating. I pray I haven't screwed it all up. I just saw my doc yesterday and he said I was doing well. Now, I go and eat like lil' miss. piggy.

BTW, I had 96% ground beef (taco meat) with a lil' mild taco sauce and a few pieces of lettuce.

Did I totally screw up ?

[honk 780]

I don't think you did perm. damage; BUT you need to go back to what your doctor ordered. Do you have a digital food scale? If not I think you really need one. You can find them at Walmart and other places for like $25. Considering I use the scale mulitple times a day it really pays for itself pretty quickly. I know it sounds harsh but you need to weight out your Protein and call it quits. Trust me it only get "worse" the more you heal/on solids. Until restriction it's all willpower. Having the scale tell you here's your portion helps alot.

[mattie7632 24]

How does it get "worse"? by healing on solids? What gets worse?

[HeatherinCA 10]

Okay everyone, I am freakin out here. I am on stage 3- mushy/soft stage. I was sooo hungry by dinner. I am supposed to only have 2oz per meal. Well, I had 4oz's (maybe 5oz) and I am so worried that I might have over did it. I can feel a very slight discomfort towards the middle of my back.

I've read things about band slippage from over eating. I pray I haven't screwed it all up. I just saw my doc yesterday and he said I was doing well. Now, I go and eat like lil' miss. piggy.

BTW, I had 96% ground beef (taco meat) with a lil' mild taco sauce and a few pieces of lettuce.

Did I totally screw up ?

I ate stuff like that on my mushies. I'm sure it's ok.. mine said 1/2 cup for the mushies I'd maybe at a little more and I was fine. I think you are fine. Just don't go CRAZY or anything. Just make sure you eat filling things, don't waste your 1/2 cup on carbs or junk or Water.

[ChopswyfT 1]

I just went back and measured /calculated everything . I ate a total of 170 calories (ENTIRE meal)...it was more like 3oz's of lean beef. So, I'm not trippin' so much now. I waited an hour & a hour to drink something. Everything went down fine , just had a good burb. So, everything is all good.

Lesson learned....

[honk 780]

By worse I meant after you're healed and before restriction you are hungry and physically able to eat the amounts you could before surgery. At that point it's all will power and being on a restrictive diet always sucks.