5 1/2 OUNCES?

[buforu21 33]

Guys, help! I am so worried my sleeve is stretched out

I just ate 5 1/2 ounces of a combination of chicken and rice in some peanut sauce, it comes out to almost 2/3 a cup. I am a little over 7 months out, and I am so scared my sleeve is huge! Can anyone help or give advice? I'm really worried my stomach is too big, especially since most people on here say that they can only eat 2 or so ounces. I know that eventually out sleeves are supposed to hold a little more, but I feel like that comes way father out, like a year or so! So my concern is that my sleeve is going to continue to get big and by a year out I'll be able to eat like I used to! This may sound irrational, but I am very fearful! Please help if you can!

[soocalchic 1,087]

It will if you continue to overeat.. measure your food and keep track

[WorkItOutWoman 185]

It will if you continue to overeat.. measure your food and keep track

Wow straight no chaser. I am looking for a sponsor are you available?

[buforu21 33]

It will if you continue to overeat.. measure your food and keep track

I wasn't overeating, that is why I'm concerned...I ate until I was full. Four months ago I was full off of one ounce of nuts, but now I can easily eat two cheese sticks just as a snack and not feel a thing! I am only human, but I do try not to overeat and weigh my food. But sometimes I fail.

[soocalchic 1,087]

Try eating more dense foods ie steak or different textures like an apple you'll really feel the restriction then I can put down a lot more soft food than something denser or dryer

[buforu21 33]

Try eating more dense foods ie steak or different textures like an apple you'll really feel the restriction then I can put down a lot more soft food than something denser or dryer

Thanks! I'm one of those people who eats the same thing...so lots of tuna salad and pre-cooked turkey sausage (jimmy dean)...which I guess is not as "dry" as some of the other meats, but i would think they are as dense? I'll try incorporating chicken into my meals and see if I can see restriction there.

[pottergirl 261]

you may not feel restriction but we you hungry after that meal? how long did you take to eat that . did you eat over a bit of time? keep the carbs away and concentrate on Protein and veg

[soocalchic 1,087]

I try to eat foods that sleeves would consider harder foods to eat fit example I can eat about a cup of rice or Pasta but I can only eat about 1/2 an apple it's a texture thing for me..

[soocalchic 1,087]

Wow straight no chaser. I am looking for a sponsor are you available?

Sponsor? What do you mean?

[WorkItOutWoman 185]

Sponsor? What do you mean?

It means that I am a bullshitter and there will come a time when I will need some straight no chaser words of wisdom from time to time.

[soocalchic 1,087]

It means that I am a bullshitter and there will come a time when I will need some straight no chaser words of wisdom from time to time.

Lol I get it now I can do that

[FishingNurse 1,210]

Honestly volume of food is not as important as content. I could eat that amount of food too. As long as you keep your cals and protien where you are supposed to it doesn't matter if you eat 1oz or 12oz. The sleeve is just a tool to help us stick with our plans. Don't freak out! You will notice your restriction change, and it's ok. Stick with a plan and you'll be successful!

[NurseGrace 509]

Guys, help! I am so worried my sleeve is stretched out

I just ate 5 1/2 ounces of a combination of chicken and rice in some peanut sauce, it comes out to almost 2/3 a cup. I am a little over 7 months out, and I am so scared my sleeve is huge! Can anyone help or give advice? I'm really worried my stomach is too big, especially since most people on here say that they can only eat 2 or so ounces. I know that eventually out sleeves are supposed to hold a little more, but I feel like that comes way father out, like a year or so! So my concern is that my sleeve is going to continue to get big and by a year out I'll be able to eat like I used to! This may sound irrational, but I am very fearful! Please help if you can!

Honestly, its probably because of the sauce. Peanut sauce is usually oily. oil = slip, and slip = stomach clearance.

I'm 46 days post op so WAY newer than you but even now for me, I find that certain things will to through my pouch at a much faster rate than others. I try not to eat things too "wet" for that reason. I don't feel hunger at this point at all, but I still don't like to eat stuff like that because I know I can eat more of it. If you are worried about stretching the only advice I can give you is to NEVER put that much food in front of you in the first place. You can't eat what you don't have.

[NurseGrace 509]

I wasn't overeating, that is why I'm concerned...I ate until I was full. Four months ago I was full off of one ounce of nuts, but now I can easily eat two cheese sticks just as a snack and not feel a thing! I am only human, but I do try not to overeat and weigh my food. But sometimes I fail.

You might consider that you don't want to eat to max capacity Full isn't the feeling we should be shooting for. I always try to remind myself to go for "comfortably unhungry" rather than full. Basically what I was told by my surgeon was that while stretching the sleeve is not really likely to happen under normal circumstances anything is possible if you try hard enough and he told me the quickest way to do that was by pushing it all the time, eating till full every time. That's why I'm just a huge proponent of weighing. I've said it before and I will repeat it here If you limit whatever you are going to eat to 3-4 ounces its very unlikely that you are ever going to experience weight gain and/or sleeve dilation of any sort.

[WorkItOutWoman 185]

Thanks for that I am very concerned about knowing when I will be full. I am trying not to but too much before surgery but based on your advice I am going to purchase a scale.< /p>