Erica Camarillo-Ramos

I'm 5 weeks post-op and I'm concerned that I'm being able to eat too much and not having any tummy issues. For example today's menu: Breakfast 4 oz Protein shake Snack 1/2 cup mixed fruit lunch 3oz chicken salad with 4 wheat crackers and a small cookie Snack SF Popsicle 1/2 a small bag of Cheetos ( my daughters leftover... I know, Shame on me) Dinner: 3-4 oz chicken with 1/2 cup of broccoli rice casserole ( dinner was at 5:30pm) and I know I'll be hungry around 8pm so might have another meal or snack! See, I'm eating tons!! I hear and read people eating 1/3 of what I just wrote :-( Is anyone else able to eat this much?!!

I ate slower today and more protein, felt satisfied it's the 4oz ????. Going to try to stay away from the junk and eat by the diet menu ????. Thanks ladies !!

No, not really. My question to you is do you only eat 4oz because that's all you physically can eat or because you measure and don't see if you can eat more?

Thanks big mama, I think I'll take your advice and go back to liquids for a few days. See if that helps! Carbs have always been my challenge. I stress eat and as you can see, I let it get the best of me. My appt for an upper GI isn't until March 5th but I'm hoping that the doctor here sees that the mexico dr did a good job and it's simply me allowing myself to eat too much. It's silly but I wish I had the problem others do when they over eat ( stomach pain or uncomfortable feeling). That may get me to stop stretching my limit and help continue my weight loss.

At around 3 weeks I ate a bit too much and felt pain in my stomach. After that I never tried to push it until this week. Now I don't feel full but stop eating because I get scared that I may over do it again and because I know I shouldn't be eating that much anyway. So I try to stick to no more than a cup at every meal though I feel that I can probably eat more than that. That's the frustrating part. I want to feel restricted and the fact that I don't makes me feel like I just wasted money

Sorry didn't answer your questions. I've lost 25 pounds since surgery but since I transitionsed to soft foods I haven't lost anything in 2 weeks!

I know, I guess I was just curious as to what my stomach could tolerate since a lot of my friends who have gotten surgery say they can't even eat a cup of food! Granted they had the actual sleeve as opposed to the plication. I set up an appointment with a surgeon here in my home town ( I got the location in Monterrey Mexico) to see what my pouch actually looked like but the soonest he could get me in for the procedure is in a month!! So until then I'll be going back to the original diet( fat free, sugar free, low carb). Still I'm disappointed that Im still having to be in a diet! Don't laugh, but I thought getting this surgery would not allow me to eat the amount of food I ate before. If I knew I could still tolerate all foods and still have to calorie count I wouldn't have even bothered!! I could have done this diet without spending all unnecessary money :-(