How much can you eat?

[Lufferly 7]

So I'm on purees now and I feel like I can eat way more than I should be able to. I'm able to eat like 5.5 oz of food over 30 minutes before I get the full sensation. I just had the RNY, shouldn't I only be able to eat like 2 oz before I feel full?

Is it different because of the food texture? Will I be able to eat more of the purees/soft foods, then less of the solids? I've lost 10 lbs since surgery, but haven't lost anything (in fact I've gained about .5 lb) in the last 3 days.... I'm already feeling like this was for nothing if I'm eating enough to gain weight! **I do think part of it is that for the majority of the first 2 weeks, I was only able to drink about 4 cups of Water a day, and I'm finally starting to drink closer to 8 cups**

So yes... how much can you eat post op? How much of softer foods? How much of more solid foods? How far out are you?

[downlbs 1]

I feel the same as you about the quantity I sometimes I can eat. Really the only time I know I have had RNY is when I try and drink Water and can't drink that fast anymore. I am 6 weeks out and I can pretty much eat whatever I want. I stay with high Protein turkey chicken deli meats egg whites and vegetables mostly, more of healthy diet. I do find it easier to stick to this diet now than before pretty much I an only attribute it to the RNY. When I first started eating "normal" food I would see what it would take to get full and I realized for me the full feeling is different than before. Its more of an uncomfortable feeling now but maybe for others it is different. I know I can eat more than a few ounces which on Thanksgiving I proved that but never got that super full feeling like before. I work out twice a day and my weight loss has been a steady 4-5 pounds a week. I am sure it will slow down but I feel great being almost 50 pounds down in 6 weeks.

[DeletedMember 715]

A couple of things I can offer from my own experience:

1) I could actually eat more a few weeks after surgery than I could a month or two out. When I was still actively healing, I really had no "full" sensation (nor did I have a hunger sensation), so I just focused on eating what I was supposed to and trusted it would all work out - it did.

2) Now that I am a little over 8 months post-op, I get the sensations of both being hungry and full. When it comes to quantity it totally depends on WHAT I'm eating. If I eat meat, I can eat very little. I can get in MAYBE 2-3oz of chicken or shrimp at most, and even that can be a struggle. However, I could eat a ton of Soup if I chose to. I generally limit myself to 1 cup (8oz), but am pretty sure I could put down 2 cups (16 oz).

So I imagine I could eat an almost endless amount of purees (my plan did not have a puree stage).

[pammieanne 269]

Don't think about what you CAN eat... think about what you are supposed to eat.

At a few weeks out, you are healing. Please don't experiment to 'see' what you can possibly eat, just weigh it and eat it.