Hello all!!

I'm 3 weeks post op well 19 days and down about 17 lbs so far which I'm thrilled about.I am on the puréed food stage and I have about five small meals a day no more than 4 ounces. Sometimes I still feel hungry afterwords. I don't know if it's the anxiety or is it me not having enough Protein in my diet. When I eat pudding I don't care for off of the one little container I don't want to over eat nor stretch my sleeve. How do you know when you start your sleeve. And how do you avoid this? Please give me your input

Track your food. Honestly the small amounts we can eat, especially at your stage make it difficult to over eat but tracking may put your mind at ease.

Measure for now. It's basically impossible to stretch a sleeve on things like yogurt, pudding, applesauce, etc. unless you ate a quart of it. And you'd get sick before that happened anyway. You don't wan't to get in the HABIT of taking in more food than you need.

When you get to solids, you will start to feel "full" and know when to stop.

Post-surgery I was eating a lot of Amy's No-chicken Noodle Soup (strained, just the broth with lot's of added water) because I was hungry. I was afraid I was going to stretch my sleeve and my surgeon started laughing. He basically told me that as long as I ate slowly, the liquids would pass right through me. The same with pudding and all that. Go slow and stop. You can always have more.

I don't understand how many calories we are suppose to have I eat 2 oz of beans of fat free re fried beans and 2 oz hummus four times a day and one Greek yor get and two suger free Popsicles Is that too much ?

@@fredawyatt - I don't think so but it doesn't sound very enjoyable. Have you spoken with your nutritionist? You don't mention how far along you are. She might be a better guide.