I knew that title would get lots of folk to click, ready to chastise me....

But I do seriously have a question about overeating. Does anyone else find themselves still eating more than you should, not because you want the food but because you want the Protein that's in it trying to hit your goal for the day? I push myself to finish my appropriate portions (1/4 cup, generally speaking) so I don't waste the protein and get it in.

I haven't had my surgery yet but I'm already trying to prepare for this. With eating such small portions it just seems impossible to get as much protein as required. Obviously it's possible, but it just seems like it's going to be hard. Unfortunately I'm allergic to a lot of foods (including seafood) so I'm going to be stuck with probably mostly chicken.

I can have sashimi which can be sushi but not always. Basically fish no rice/roll. This was allowed at my 3 week "mushy" phase.

I didn't worry at all about food until I was able to eat enough to get all my Protein from food. While I was on purees and softs I could do about 1/4 to 1/2 cup. I would try to eat one meal a day as food, to get used to eating again and to figure out what foods I could eat. The rest was just Protein shakes.

At about 4 months now I can do about a full cup of food. I'm still planning meals solely around hitting that protein goal so some meals may be smaller than that and some may be larger. It doesn't worry me too much if there's a little left by the time I get full, if It's just a bite I'll eat it, if it's more I'll set it aside as a snack. I make sure to eat enough to get my protein but I don't push myself to finish it all at once. Since it's all planned out daily anyway even if there's some left over it's not actually extra food.

My surgeon's office actually annoyed me a little in how quickly they wanted me completely off the shakes because I wanted to take my time in increasing portion sizes.

I knew that title would get lots of folk to click, ready to chastise me....

But I do seriously have a question about overeating. Does anyone else find themselves still eating more than you should, not because you want the food but because you want the protein that's in it trying to hit your goal for the day? I push myself to finish my appropriate portions (1/4 cup, generally speaking) so I don't waste the protein and get it in.

I get more food per meal when I take a long time to chew and wait a couple of minutes for the next bite. I can get about 3 oz of food per meal and on a good day maybe 4 oz. if I over eat I feel like puking .

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I ve changed animal protein to vegetal ones. I can't eat chicken anymore or pork or turkey. It hurts too much and I don't like the taste anymore. I eat instead cottage cheese, peanut butter, alpro yogurt, greek yogurt, tofu, black beans, lentils, eggs, milk. I feel is time to become a vegetarian.