i am only 2 weeks post-op and I can eat a whole can of soup or refried beans at one time. Why am I not getting that full feeling everyone talks about???

Soup isn't going to fill you up because it goes right through your pyloric valve. Refried beans can be a similar slider for some. Plus your stomach is still healing from surgery, where nerves were cut and tissues bruised. It isn't sending signals properly to your brain yet because it isn't healed. If I were you I would stop wondering why you aren't feeling restriction (it will come - provided you don't keep abusing your healing stomach) and start wondering WHY you are choosing to eat an entire can of soup or refried beans. Is that okay under your plan?

Nothing wrong with you. Those are very soft foods that slip through. When you move to firm protein (don't rush it), you will see restriction.

This is why the nutritionists caution us to measure our food. Right after surgery, you often don't really feel full, even after a larger amount of liquids or soft foods than you really should be having at once. Please be careful. At this stage you are still delicate.

i agree with the others- my biggest concern for you would be causing a leak or popping your suture line. this is very possible from large amounts initially, and i agree that the 'fullness' thing didn't happen immediately. i didn't note 'full' until i went to flaked fish and for some reason, 1 tsp and BOOM it was there. almost to the point of discomfort.

now, 3 wks out I am on puree/softs hybrid sort of thing and i pretty much know about 1TBSP plus 1 tsp and i'm totally FULL. but liquids, they still go down easy, quickly, and in large amounts without issue.

you need to measure your food! you should not be eating an entire can of anything at this point. your stomach is still healing, you are going to hurt something if you eat to much at once.

can eat can of soup or refried Beans at one time.

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why are you trying to test yourself, and see how much you can eat?

as everyone else says, you don't/won't feel any tummy restriction til you are done with the liquid phase

then mush, pureed, soft - and finally solids

important not to rush into anything with your food order/process

you have the rest of your life to eat real food

wait a few weeks to successfully follow the above

remember you just had major surgery

be nice to your poor little new tummy

good luck

kathy

Edited July 15, 201412 yr by proudgrammy

Hope is well god good,

Hope all is well god is good be bless.