Hi All,

I just had a quick question, I'm about 6 months into my gastric sleeve. I've been getting complacent lately and feeling like I "really have this thing down," I have it!! So I wasn't measuring my food and I realized that I was eating over a cup of food perhaps sometimes a cup and a half. So, no I dont have it! Very far from it. I'm very concerned about this. How much have I stretched my sleeve in doing this? What's weird is I didn't feel overly full. It was dense food so that is concerning. :-( I know that even though we CAN eat more we should NOT eat more.

This has been a realization to me that I don't have it down, not at all. I AM STILL learning that I really have to measure because I cannot eyeball it, correctly.

Anyone have any similar experience?

:-(

It takes a lot to stretch a sleeve. I'm talking eating until you are so full you throw up every day for a couple of years a lot. The "stretchy" part of the stomach is the part that is removed during surgery, leaving the less pliable part of the sleeve.

Being able to eat a little more is just the natural progression of the sleeve after several months of healing and reduced swelling.

But yes, you are correct. The best way to not over do it with the portions is weighing and measuring. I'm in my 9th month, and I find myself overeating too if I just "eyeball" things, so I have to measure most of the time

Thanks Babbs!! Its so funny when you think you have it all figured out, and then I realized I really don't have anything figured out!

I never did measure my portions, but I know I could eat way more at 6 months than 3 months. And way more at a year than at 6 months. the first time I saw my parents after my surgery was around 6 months post. They were very concerned over how little I was eating. Then I saw them again at 12 months post and they commented on how much more "normal" my portions were.

I think being able to eat more as you get farther out is normal and doesn't necessarily mean you've damaged or stretched anything....it's just normal loosening of your stomach tissue as you heal. Despite being able to eat more this far out It's nowhere near what a "normal" stomach can fit. I can count on one hand how many times I've eaten to over fullness, so I know I haven't "stretched" anything.

Just keep making healthy choices and you will be successful.

A cup of food is nowhere near the volume I used to eat. If I went to a buffet, I could heap my plate twice, have dessert, plus drink two or three glasses of soda. I had to go back to measuring and logging, too. My dad was a scientist, and he was right when he said, "You cannot control that which you do not measure."

Thanks Friends, I feel better xxoo