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I am whole liquids phase since yesterday, and have found myself able to eat 3 oz of cottage cheese at a time. My Dr. told me at discharge that my pouch was approximately 3 oz, so I guess this makes sense. However, I was told before the surgery that it is usually only 2 oz and my diet instructions indicate eating 2 oz of cottage cheese at a time and I started out with that but don't feel satiated without the extra ounce. Is it because this is still the liquids phase or am I overeating, or is this really the size of my pouch?

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I don't know exactly how much I can eat in oz but I have been able to eat half a cup of cream of Soups and 10 min later have 2 tbsp of pudding. I don't know if I am overdoing it be cause I feel I am eating about a tbsp every 30 min and every 4~5 a meal.

At night I slow down though. I had my surgery on the 17th of July. So less than a week ago

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omg, that actually helps sooooo much! I am hoping that when I start eating solid foods I get full quicker

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I never ate food during the liquids stage because it was the liquids stage. I only had liquids. 3 Protein Shakes a day plus broth.

2 ounces is what they suggest because your nerves are not reconnected and by the time you think you are full, you have already over ate. I wouldn't eat more than 2 ounces at a time until week 3 or 4, but everyone is different.

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Just now, shazwott13 said:

omg, that actually helps sooooo much! I am hoping that when I start eating solid foods I get full quicker

I am on full liquid as well but it took a lot 3 days to eat more than 2 tbsp at a time

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11 minutes ago, OutsideMatchInside said:

I never ate food during the liquids stage because it was the liquids stage. I only had liquids. 3 Protein Shakes a day plus broth.

2 ounces is what they suggest because your nerves are not reconnected and by the time you think you are full, you have already over ate. I wouldn't eat more than 2 ounces at a time until week 3 or 4, but everyone is different.

There are 2 liquid stages in my diet, clear liquid and full liquid, I am in the full liquid stage and can have pureed foods with no lumps. The one exception is that I am allowed to eat cottage cheese without pureeing it first

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I can get down about that much of cottage cheese too. Cottage cheese seems to be the easiest for me to eat. I get no pain from it. Ricotta cheese hurts. Puréed refried Beans hurt. Tofu hurts. Everything hurts. Haha.


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1 hour ago, shazwott13 said:

There are 2 liquid stages in my diet, clear liquid and full liquid, I am in the full liquid stage and can have pureed foods with no lumps. The one exception is that I am allowed to eat cottage cheese without pureeing it first

There are 2 in mine also. I stated what I did.

Just because things are allowed doesn't mean that everyone eats them. I was allowed oatmeal but I never had it because I do not like it. I do not like yogurt or cottage cheese so I don't eat them. Same thing with crackers and toast, they are on my list I never had them.

I just stuck with liquids because I didn't like the pressure from more solid foods. It is a pretty short time period. I was more interested in healing well than eating food.

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Up to week three I was able to eat about 1/4 cup of Soup. Took me about an hour to get down a priemer shake.

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