I am 5 months post op and lately all I do is eat eat and eat. I know I am eating way more than I should be able to and believe me thats not an exageration!! I am eating (snacking) so often and sometimes cant figure out why I can still keep going. I battle the old demons of head hunger not physical hunger and my head always wins mostly because I miss enjoying big meals. Does anyone know if it is possible to have already stretched out my stomach in 5 months?? Sometimes I just want to go to my doc and say please xray my stomach and tell me if ive stretched it just in hopes of finding out im maybe not doing so horrible after all. Would greatly appreciate any incite!!!!! Thanks!!!

I thought I was eating a lot per meal until I started measuring my meals and 1/2 cup of food makes me full. Hell I just measured out 2/3 cup of food and couldn't finish it. I'm 7 months post op and still have great restriction. I did slip back into grazing but a meeting with my NUT has me back on track. I measure and weigh my food but I don't bother with counting calories since my NUT told me to stop counting cals. If I grazed I could easily eat 2000 cals and I have before! Now I'm back to eating under 1000 cals and it's a lot harder now that I'm further out but now its easier.

I would definitely say that it's possible to eat more now at 4.5 months postoperative than I could the first month out, but I'm really not all that hungry, and I find that I am still Satisfied on WAY less food than ever before in my life. However, all of the slider foods, like carbs, crackers and the like, really go down easy and you still have to make a conscious decision to NOT eat that stuff all the time! BUT staying away from that junk is MUCH easier mentally for me than any time I can remember in my life! not sure how much of that is mental, and how much of that is the physical limits of the sleeve, For me personally, my desire to eat bad stuff has gone WAY down....