Post-op liquid diet--are you supposed to feel restriction?

[Betelnut 10]

This has probably been answered somewhere--sorry if so!

I'm one week post-op and on a two week liquid diet. I frankly don't feel "restricted." That is, I am able to easily eat a cup of Soup and then drink a shot of liquid protean then a few sips of Water. (Then I do "feel full.")

Of course, in reality, a cup of Soup and a few more mouthfuls isn't much food and, before the surgery, I would probably eat 2 cups or more of soup (plus bread, etc.)! But it also is a lot more than the "few ounces" of food that I'm supposed to be able to eat while banded.

Is this because what I'm eating is liquid and thus it is "slipping" past the band easily?

Please tell me that once I start my "mushie" phase, I will feel more restricted!

Thanks!

[Jodi_620 37]

liquids generally flow right through the band. Mushies are better but not that filling. And of course solids are best. Whether you feel restriction before you get a fill or two remains to be seen (we are all different in that aspect.) I didn't feel real restriction until my second fill.