So right now I'm back at home while I do the surgery and recover I'm 55 days out from surgery. I had the sleeve done and I'm on soft foods, my mother has been super supportive. Also she's driving me crazy.

So basically whatever I'm eating I'll serve myself and sometimes when I would puree or cook myself something it would make a few days serving. I won't serve myself all of it but let's say for an example I'll serve myself a bowl of soup a serving size worth. Often times my mother will say "You are serving too much for yourself! You can't eat all that." I know. I know I can't eat all of that I never do. I will eat until I'm satisfied and put the rest away for later. Because usually I can eat half a serving of whatever then I'll go back and use the rest as one of my snacks it's easier for me to calorie/protien count that way.

I don't think that's unreasonable? I dunno should I measure it better? I'm being careful what I'm eating and I'm not stuffing myself by any means. How do you guys measure out your food? Am I doing something wrong?

You should weigh/measure out your proper portion and eat that. Putting more food on your plate now is setting you up to over eat later on. Right now you are healing and your restriction prevents you from over eating. That won't be the case in few months.

There is a reason a lot of people stop losing at 6 months and start regaining. They never made good habits to start and once they are healed at 6 months, their restriction doesn't save them from over eating or eating the wrong things.

It is good to get in the habit of serving yourself proper portion sizes so later when you are places you can't weigh and measure you have a better idea of what the proper size looks like.

It only helps you.

Thanks for asking this question!

You have to hate it when Mom is right It will make her feel good if you tell her that you've decided to take her advice (without mentioning the message board).

Outside, thanks for your succinct explanation!

You should be able to eat 2 to 3oz of food now. Or 1/2 cup.

For the soup it's a liquid. Don't be surprised if you able to do 8oz because liquids go in the stomach and leave the stomach quick.

I measure all my food out on a food scale and track all of it on a app called mynetdiary.

I think that far from surgery I was getting about 500 - 700 calories.


HW: 420 (January 2016)
CW: 273 (March 2017)

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Thanks for the feedback guys!

You should weigh/measure out your proper portion and eat that. Putting more food on your plate now is setting you up to over eat later on. Right now you are healing and your restriction prevents you from over eating. That won't be the case in few months.
There is a reason a lot of people stop losing at 6 months and start regaining. They never made good habits to start and once they are healed at 6 months, their restriction doesn't save them from over eating or eating the wrong things.
It is good to get in the habit of serving yourself proper portion sizes so later when you are places you can't weigh and measure you have a better idea of what the proper size looks like.
It only helps you.

Yes, I see!

Putting too much on the plate now is just setting myself up for failure![emoji12]