Brand New Here And 10 Days Post-op

planni · November 26, 2011

I had sleeve surgery on Nov 15th and am doing quite well. I started my journey in Oct 2010 but had to delay my surgery this past Spring because my mom got in bad health. She was doing much better by the end of August so I immediately jumped back in to my program. I'm still on liquids and very tired of the shakes, powder Soups, and puddings but I just force them down. Will be glad to move to purees in a few days. I am down 20 lbs from Nov 10th to now and have no hunger at all. Though my sleeve growls and reminds me of eating times. I think I'm currently holding about 2 ounces at a time, is that pretty normal? I know they've told me I will hold about 4 ounces max later on.

Thomas CPA · November 26, 2011

Sounds normal to me, at two weeks I was down 17 pounds and 4 weeks around 30. As for ounces, just depends. Around month 2 I was eating pretty normal and ending month 4 I can eat a small salad, a 1 inch cube of meat, 1/2 baked potato or other vegetables and some fruit later for desert.

I prefer to think in terms of volume not ounces. Your stomach is the size of a small to medium banana and you can fit more than 2 ounces in there. Just go slow as you stomach is still healing.