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I'm 4 weeks out and am only supposed to be eating 2 ounces. But I have no problem eating 4. Maybe more, but I haven't pushed it.

I started on solids today and it was better, but not much. I'm eating slowly. This worries me. I hear so many people say they barely get their 2 oz in and feel like they're gonna vomit.

Anyone have this problem?

Val

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I am 4 weeks out today and worry about the same thing. I feel like I can eat 4 ounces. Do you get hungry within an hour or 2 of eating?

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I am 5 weeks out and I can barely get in 1/4 cup of Soup, and I can get in about 1 to 1 to 1.25 ounces of tuna with ff mayo & 3 teaspoons of 1% cottage cheese.

I also had hernia repair, adhesion removal and some serious complication that caused my surgery to run to 7 hours, when the anesthesiologist dropped the esophageal tube into my stomach while the doctor was stapling and it got stapled in me. It took 5 hours for them to remove it and I think there was some compromise of the size going from my esophagus into my stomach, though I was told there was none.

I just started pureed foods so it's definitely harder to tell. I was only able to eat 1/2 cup of sf pudding at a time, but I did get an entire pudding cup down, so that's a big improvement for me.

I have Lupus, so I think I'm a slower healer also.

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It really depends on what you are eating.

There are some things I can eat quite a bit of, but foods that are dense in Protein are usually very limited in quantity.

I found that refried Beans tend to fill me up very quickly. Even at 11 months out, I can't eat 3 ounces of them.

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I am 5 weeks out and I can barely get in 1/4 cup of soup' date=' and I can get in about 1 to 1 to 1.25 ounces of tuna with ff mayo & 3 teaspoons of 1% cottage cheese.

I also had hernia repair, adhesion removal and some serious complication that caused my surgery to run to 7 hours, when the anesthesiologist dropped the esophageal tube into my stomach while the doctor was stapling and it got stapled in me. It took 5 hours for them to remove it and I think there was some compromise of the size going from my esophagus into my stomach, though I was told there was none.

I just started pureed foods so it's definitely harder to tell. I was only able to eat 1/2 cup of sf pudding at a time, but I did get an entire pudding cup down, so that's a big improvement for me.

I have Lupus, so I think I'm a slower healer also.[/quote']

OMG that sounds terrible.

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I can eat 3 maybe 4 ounces at 5 weeks out....yes, I'm hungry every 2 hours.

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I can eat 3 maybe 4 ounces at 5 weeks out....yes, I'm hungry every 2 hours.

I'm glad I am not the only one who is hungry. I get full and the next thing I know, I'm hungry!

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I am 4 weeks out. It seems like I can eat a lot too. I also get hungry w/in a couple hours of eating. Today's food so far:

B- Chiboni yogurt 6 oz.. I ate the whole thing.

L- 7 shrimp w/ cocktail sauce (tiny shrimp) Later I ate the other 6. It was a total of 3 oz of shrimp. I weighed it at home.

S- A Frigo lite cheese stick

dinner - I am eating meatloaf. I measured out about 3 1/2 - 4 ounces of meatloaf. I will probably only eat half.

Here are the stats in My Fitness Pal but including the whole meatloaf:

Calories Carbs Fat Protein Breakfast Calories Carbs Fat Protein Chobani Greek Yogurt - 0% Peach Non-Fat 6oz (170g), 6 oz 140 20 0 14 ico_delete.gif?1327990161 Frigo - Light String cheese, 1 Cheese stick 60 0 3 8 ico_delete.gif?1327990161 Add Food

Quick Tools 200 20 3 22 lunch Generic - Shrimp, 85 g 80 0 1 17 ico_delete.gif?1327990161 Add Food

Quick Tools 80 0 1 17 dinner Mccormick - Cocktail Sauce, Original, 1/8 cup (60mL) 45 10 0 1 ico_delete.gif?1327990161 Hunt's Meatloaf, 1/8 of recipe 210 13 8 22 ico_delete.gif?1327990161 Add Food

Quick Tools 255 23 8 23 Snacks Add Food

Quick Tools Totals 535 43 12 62 Your Daily Goal 800 40 40 70 Remaining 265 -3 28 8

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How much are you all eating? And what types of food? Can you give me a basic breakdown?

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I'm 6 weeks out and I eat 9 tbsp of soft scrambled egg whites, 4 oz of tilapia, 3 oz of chicken. I haven't really had any red meat yet. I eat half a can of tuna (with a little mayo and pickle relish), 2 light cheese sticks, 1 chobani champ (for kids), etc. I would say I can handle 4 oz of most things, but the tilapia seems be the lightest. I eat a little creamed spinach with that. I do not ever get hungry. I have to make myself eat so I get my Protein in.

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What size bougie did each person have?

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How much are you all eating? And what types of food? Can you give me a basic breakdown?

I had 3 oz of yogurt for bfast, 3 oz of mashed potatoes with a little bit (1oz) of roasted pork for lunch, decried Beans with more pork for dinner.< /p>

I also get hungry in between.

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OMG that sounds terrible.

The mistake made by the anesthesiologist definitely yes, but regarding food, I was never a big eater, I was just a big girl. I never ate Breakfast, lunch or Snacks, just dinner and I had zero metabolism.

I also just moved to purees so instead of starting with light things, I went right to tuna and mayo, which is a lot denser, so it's a learning curve. I should have started with a few teaspoons of refried Beans instead of a heavier meat.

I would still do the surgery again, my surgeon was awesome and even with the complication it was worth it.

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I have no idea what size bougie I have. I just ate my dinner and I only ate 2 oz of the meatloaf.

My counts for the day:

430 calories 37 carbs 8 fat and 51 Protein.

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I think I eat a lot compared to others that are nearly 5 months out.

B- silk chocolate soy drink 6 oz before work out

L- 4 oz refried Beans with cheese n sour cream

D- about 4 oz broccoli n beef . Forgot to measure ate right from take out container

S- grande nonfat carmel macchiato from Starbucks

S- 1 cup all natural aged white cheddar pop corn.

I'm not full. I just no I've had enough bad stuff today. So sip sip sip the rest of the night.

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