Has any one had too much at a meal and still felt fine? Maybe my sleeve too big. Hunger hormone is still around if you ask me.:thumbup:

How do you know you over ate?

When I over eat, my mouth fills up with saliva and it just keeps coming into my mouth for a couple of hours. I have to keep spitting it out and my stomach feels like it's going to explode. It's miserable.

How much did you eat that you consider over eating?

I ate a boiled egg at 4:00. Then at 0630 at 1 cup of fat free turkey chili then a cheese stick. I am worried that maybe I can eat too much without side effects. I would welcome some of the saliva right now so I could be punished.

I can't over eat without being in pain, but I just ate some chinese chicken dumplings and felt like I could have kept going. I haven't had the saliva problem before.

What does it actually feel like when you eat too much. How much do you eat at a meal?

I get very, very uncomfortable if I eat too much. It almost feels as though the food is trying to push itself back up into my chest. I am only able to eat about 3-4 ounces per meal. My family ordered pizza the other night, thin crust. I was only able to eat a half a piece. For lunch today, I had one slice of bread, folded over with roast beef and a slice of provolone cheese. I was able to eat about 3/4 of it.

Maybe I should eat till I feel it so I know that it is working? That would be silly but I really want to know.

Yuck...I would not go there!

Not to mention the fact that if you vomit, you are risking a leak every time you do so. Not worth it to be experienced in it!

Believe me, it's not fun. The first time I ate too much, I was in terrible pain. I felt like my stomach was going to explode and I was really afraid I was going to do something to the staple line.

If I overeat - one of two things happens -- I get that "stuffed feeling" like when you eat too much at Thanksgiving or I get the stuck feeling and feel as though I have to puke - and sometimes it happens. I wouldn't suggest going there just to see what it feels like, although Dr. Aceves says everyone will do it on a few occasions as it is the only way they will know what "full" feels like.

By the way, chili would be considered a mushie. We can eat more soft mushie food than we can eat solids. Solids would be something like steak. I can definitely eat more soft foods than I can dense foods like steak.

I had four small bites of egg on Sunday morning. Three must've been my limit because I knew it quickly. Felt like someone had poured concrete into my chest and, as I have seen others write, I was drooling like I was at a seed spitting contest. I have to learn to take time between bites as my stomach acclimates to new foods and all. If you can avoid this, do! What a God-awful feeling that was.

Keep in mind that your stomach may be a bit smaller in the morning than it is after being up for awhile. Fluid in the body naturally shifts to the upper areas of the body when lying down. Some people even have puffy eyelids and just below the eyes (bags) when they first get out of bed. So of course the fluid shift will lessen the diameter of the stomach, not by much but with our greatly dcreased stomach size, still enough to feel tighter when we eat and things will tend to take much longer to pass through. The sensation decreases as we progress through the day and gravity causes the fluid to recede to the lower body again.

I have also found that eggs just don't seem to be an easy food to eat -- other than poached -- but then I need toast to soak up the yolk ... and well that's not an option ...

I ate a boiled egg at 4:00. Then at 0630 at 1 cup of fat free turkey chili then a cheese stick. I am worried that maybe I can eat too much without side effects. I would welcome some of the saliva right now so I could be punished.

You are beating yourself up over eating ONE EGG?! That's 1/4 of a cup of food!

You feel fine because you are hardly eating anything... overeating would be eating 2 or 3 eggs early out and more when you are farther out.

Does your program have a counselor or a nutritionist who can guide you? Wanting to be punished for eating less than normal amounts of food concerns me.

Btw, chili is a slider food... you'll be able to eat a lot of it. Cheese sticks are considered a soft too so some people can eat a lot of them. But most people can eat one even early out. I can eat 3 now but not always so mostly I just eat two so I don't feel uncomfortable. But sometimes I eat 2 and wish I had another one...

I had a 1/2 of a large chicken breast for dinner last nite 230 calories. Lots of protein but the calories sure add up fast even if it is healthy. Any meat ideas out there that are not so high in calories?