I'm 3 weeks post op, doing mushies now, and I'm afraid I'm able to eat too much. Everyone here says at this point they either have no hunger, or get full after a couple spoonfuls. I'm rarely feel full and feel hungry every couple hours. I have yet to feel any restriction at all. I make myself stop eating after 3ish ounces just so I don't over eat. My nutritionist tells me that it's basically impossible and I should be eating 1/4 cup of food 3 times a day and I'll be fine but that's not a reality. Maybe I just healed too quickly, but if I only eat 1/4 cup per meal I'm literally starving over the day. I'm eating like 2-4 oz. every 3 hours. I'm on a PPI and getting in 80-100 oz. of water a day (I drink a lot when I'm hungry). Am I doing something wrong?

Typical menu:

Breakfast - 3 oz. of protein oatmeal (plain oats made with fairlife milk, 0% Fage, and a scoop of unflavored unjury)

Morning Snack - 2 oz. mix of fat free refried beans and guacamole with a scoop of unflavored Unjury, with 1 oz. of melted cheese

Lunch - 1 serving of Shelly's Ricotta bake

Afternoon Snack - 1 Morningstar Sausage blended with Soft Cheese

Dinner - 3 oz. of beef Chili

Am I doing something wrong? Am I just unlucky/lucky to have a quickly healed stomach that can handle more food than most?

Edited November 22, 20178 yr by ToughButFair

Ok,

I'm so guilty of this myself but you have to remember that u are an individual and every one is different! You are fine ! I'm 10 weeks post op and can definitely eat more than right after surgery but your body has to progress to eat more we eventually have to teach our selves to be ok around food and stop when we are full. just push your protein first and fluids. you will have up days and down days but you cant hold your standards to this person or that person because it will seriously drive u crazy. Follow your program and start your walking or gym and things should progress normally

You're not doing anything wrong. At this stage, you still aren't really eating the foods that will trigger your restriction. When you get into more solid protein, you'll definitely feel it. For now, just follow your doctor's plan even if you feel like you want to eat more. Head hunger is a very, very real thing and I have found that you just have to push through it.

When you move to dense protein you will feel restrictions. I was also meant to just eat three times a day. I manage it now. Also drink water when you think your hungry ..your doing the right thing stopping before feeling full your actually still healing so you may not feel full yet. I burp sneeze tummy gurgles that's what my signs were at first.

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I address this in my videos, you really need to find an eating pattern that works for you, not a cookie cutter eating plan given out by a nutritionist. Im 5-11 and down to 225lbs and muscular as hell. I could never eat 3 times a day, my metabolism is too fast. I eat 6 to 8 small meals a day. Eating every 2 to 3 hours is how your supposed to eat especially if your athletic and working out, it keeps your metabolism moving.

I basically do this, if I'm hungry, I eat..... If I'm not hungry, I don't eat.....I don't follow my doctors BS eating plan, I follow my body.

contrary to popular belief, you have to eat to lose weight....Its the Types of food and quantities as well as timing that is the trick.

But I've been stalled for a week now. I hope that isn't because I'm eating too much...

Ok ok I t0 am pretty tall at 5"10 258 I hear this different crap 3 meals don't snack or eat healthy snacks or 6 small meals a day ok I just hope something falls into place for me it's aggravating and frustrating . I'm trying to build my endurance after being sedentary fir so long. I'm up to 40 minutes treadmill 2.25 miles 10 flights of stairs and misc muscle buliding excercises at least 6!sets of 10 three different things . So I'm really truly trying