Ok, Am I Beating Myself?!

[ANewMe83 21]

Hello guys,

I'm five days post-op, and today I ate a whole cup of yogurt with a little milk mixed in it. Did I over do it? ????

[SkinnyDown 409]

By whole cup do you mean a full cup, or a 5oz yogurt container, or 4 oz yogurt? How did you feel? Are you supposed to be eating that already? I did full liquids for a couple weeks. I couldn't even drink an 8oz Protein shake in one sitting the first few weeks after surgery. I'm unsure how you kept all that down.

I'm almost 11 weeks out from surgery and I still can't eat a whole cup of anything.

Not sure if you over did it, what do you think? I think only you can answer that question. My best advise is to talk to your NUT as soon as possible, and make sure you are eating the right things, and the right amounts. If you are having issues with head hunger....my best advice I tell everyone, get to a therapist, asap. That could be the very thing that helps you if you feel you are eating too much this soon after surgery. I wish you luck with everything.

[IcanMakeit 1,318]

At this stage, it is important to adhere to your surgeon's program very strictly. Check back with them to confirm the types of meals and the amounts you should be eating at your current stage, and then measure to make sure you don't exceed those amounts. Because you are still healing, the feeling of fullness is an unreliable guide.

[Djmohr 6,965]

If you mean 8 oz. of yogurt, I still can't do that and I am 10 months post op. I would probably throw up. At your stage I was lucky if I could get 2 tablespoons in and I would feel uncomfortable.

I also was on Clear Liquids the whole first week and then full liquids the week after.

I had bypass surgery so maybe this was different but you really risk damage at this stage if you overeat or eat the wrong foods.

Is there a reason you ate that much and a timeframe in which you did it? If it took you longer than 30 minutes this may be a slider food for you.

I would stick to your post op diet exactly if you want to remain complication free.

Good luck!

[ANewMe83 21]

It did take longer than 30 minutes ... And I perceived produced a lot of gas! I didn't feel any discomfort other than the gas.

[ANewMe83 21]

And yogurt is on my list as a food of choice.

[ididit5 4]

It's a struggle for me to get down a four oz bottle of room temperature water.. It feels like I ate a whole chicken and some. Lol

[ANewMe83 21]

Yes, it's hard for me to get down Water too, but the yogurt ...I don't know!

[bgirl505 1]

I'm almost two months out. My surgeon said I am allowed to eat the whole 4.5 oz container but she stressed that I need to learn when my body is full. I have only been able to finish the whole thing twice...most times I have left about 1/3 of it.

[TXMissy 211]

I can barely finish a cup of yogurt. I usually leave a third of it. However, yogurt to this day is my slider food. When I'm not very hungry, nothing else seems appetizing or I just can't get anything else down I can get the yogurt down. I know that as soon as I went home I was on full liquid which included yogurt with milk to Water it down. I was scared to push it. So a quarter of a cup at a time was good, but I was so hungry the first few weeks!

[aelovelady 243]

Just be careful! If you did over do it, it doesn't mean you have to do it again, we live and learn!