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Okay, I am 3 1/2 weeks post op and I am now on my mushies/soft food stage (yay) but OMG it takes me a good hour or more just to eat 1 scrambled egg and I feel so full at that!!!! :blink:

I am curious, how much food can everyone eat post op and when?

Thanks-Tiffany

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I started eggs at about 3 weeks out and it I could eat 3/4 of one in about 15 minutes. I'm a fast eater and always have been. I'm a little over 3 months out now and I can eat a whole egg in about 5 minutes and 2 bites of toast. I'm stuffed after that. Seems the most I can get in is a cup of food. Last night I had 3 chicken wings and 2 french fries. STUFFED. 1 cup of Soup sits very nicely. 1/2 a cup of cottage cheese with nuts on top, 1 peice of toast with 1/2 a piece of cheese and 2 slices ham. Those are typical meals for me.

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Sleeved Dec 6, 2010

Same here, took better part of an hour to finish Breakfast at first, not I'm down to 15 minutes or so. I am NEVER hungry and as I've posted elsewhere I get really turned off by what I'm eating and have to actually force myself to eat the rest. I still eat maybe a 1/2 cup to 1 cup (depends on density) of food a meal. Been loosing like crazy but I actually need a few more calories and a lot more Protein.< /p>

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Sounds like DJackson and I both eat similarly and about the same amounts. My meals last anywhere from 20-30 minutes. It's usually enough to fill me and keep me for 3-4 hours.

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. I have Soup quite a bit. Usually about 1 1/2 cups (with chicken, Beans and vegies). I can probably eat that much because part of it is liquid; other times I eat about a cup. I am 7 weeks out. So far I've lost 28 pounds since the day after Thanksgiving.

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I can tell ya how much I CAN'T eat, 4oz. of lean pork sirloin steak (sans anything else).

How do I know? Well, I just tried to have that as my left-over lunch and it was followed by about half an hour of extreme discomfort and a lot of rumbling in my stomach!

I am 11 weeks out

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It really depends on the kind of day I am having. Some days I seem to be able to eat more than others. I have also always been a slow eater, but since surgery I have turned into a snail with my eating pace.

Typically meals look pretty close to this for me at 5 months out:

Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg w/onion & zucchini cooked into it w/a sprinkle of cheese

Lunch: 1/2 to 3/4 ounce of lean meat or fish w/some cheese

Dinner: 1.5 ounces cooked chicken 1 baby carrot cooked 1 floret of steamed broccoli less than 1/4 c of baked potato

Snacks: Protein drinks, Tbsp natural Peanut Butter, nuts, 1/2 apple or other small portion of a fruit, sometimes a carby treat but not often

I don't know how normal or not this amount is. Sometimes I feel like I am still hardly eating, then other times I feel like have eaten like a piglet.

With the exception of a 1 time week long carb binge, I do not usually feel hungry at all-the carbs in my system cranked up the hunger feeling though. Me and carbs have a very dysfunctional relationship and my body is super sensitive to them.

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I can eat about 3 to 3.5 ounces of Protein and maybe a bite or two of vegetables, and that's about it.

It really depends on the texture/density of the Protein though. I can eat 1/2 cup of yogurt with a little kashi go lean Cereal mixed in with no problem. Soft Proteins like tuna salad, I can eat 3 ounces and two or three crackers. Grilled chicken, pork and beef, three ounces and that's about it. If I'm eating something other than fish, I don't often have room for anything else.

Soups, like Wendy's chili, I can eat four ounces.

I'm 5 and a half months out.

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It depends on the time of day for me. In the morning I usually cant eat too much, maybe a half a scrambled egg and half slice turkey, then I come back and finish it maybe half an hour later. lunch today was 1 oz of tuna salad w 2 black olives. I usually have 2 Snacks a day, one was a Protein shake and the other was 1 oz of plain shredded chicken. dinner was 4 oz of cauliflower and chicken Soup, recipe off bariatriceating.com.

Question: I will sometimes set out a specified amount of food, say 2 oz of meat, and work at it over an hour or so until it is gone, considered as lunch or dinner. Technically it wont all fit in one sitting, but if I just eat what will fit (sometimes a little less than an ounce) I know Ill be hungry again in an hour or so. Is it better to just eat what I can in that specific sitting, then STOP and ride out the hunger w fluids until the next snack or meal, OR eat a reasonable amount (1-2 oz of meat, and thats it) over a timeframe? What are other people doing?

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Okay, I am 3 1/2 weeks post op and I am now on my mushies/soft food stage (yay) but OMG it takes me a good hour or more just to eat 1 scrambled egg and I feel so full at that!!!! :blink:

I am curious, how much food can everyone eat post op and when?

Thanks-Tiffany

Hey! I'm 1 year 1 month out now and can get down 6 - 8 oz comfortably but forget about trying to get down "just one more bite" then I'm uncomfortable. I time myself to have my meals completed in about 30 minutes and if i'm not done, too bad, out it goes. . .

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2 eggs with some cheese in one sitting is where I'm at after 5.5 months.

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Just to add - 4 oz of solid pork steak is too much, 4 oz. of pulled pork is just fine. It seems like it's a lot about sloppy chewing for me

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Same here, I can get down a lot more of mushy stuff verus solid. . I like to take my fish fillets and squish them up then I get down about 6 oz but if i leave it whole i get down 4 oz AND IT'S THE SAME THING!!!!! Funny how the mind works . . . but i truly love mushy stuff way better then solid. . . looks funny when i go out to the restaraunt and start mashing up my food, undoing my enchilades to get to the inside, put the tortilla to the side, etc. . . ugh i'm so weird!:blink:

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Same here, I can get down a lot more of mushy stuff verus solid. . I like to take my fish fillets and squish them up then I get down about 6 oz but if i leave it whole i get down 4 oz AND IT'S THE SAME THING!!!!! Funny how the mind works . . . but i truly love mushy stuff way better then solid. . . looks funny when i go out to the restaraunt and start mashing up my food, undoing my enchilades to get to the inside, put the tortilla to the side, etc. . . ugh i'm so weird!:blink:

Gotta do what ya gotta do!

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I had 1 chicken el carbon taco from El Pollo Loco last night for dinner and that is perfect for me...I'm 5 months out.

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