What's your full sign? What's mine?

[meganliz0824 65]

So I had surgery 11/19 and I can sip and sip my Clear Liquids all day and I don't feel full. Am I possibly not taking in enough at 1 time to feel full? I space out my drinking and sip all day long but my sips are small and I have trouble getting to the 64oz. I can drink more and take bigger sips but I don't ever really feel anything. Am I supposed to? I occasionally burp but I also still have some gas left from surgery. Help!!

[magtart 603]

Your tummy is still healing and swollen. liquids pass through quickly. You probably won't feel the normal feelings for quite some time. Once you start on real food you will feel restriction.

Just keep on doing what you are supposed to do and everything will work out fine.

[FocusOnMeNow 599]

To achieve your 64 oz you have to take 1 shot (oz) 8x per hour for 8 hours like it's your J-O-B. This is your job right now. So please take a shot of Fluid every 7-8 minutes. I alternated shots of Vitamin Water zero with Premier Protein shakes for days on end, adding liquid vitamins to the vitamin water just one teaspoon at a time at first. You can do it!

[lahhleslie 30]

To achieve your 64 oz you have to take 1 shot (oz) 8x per hour for 8 hours like it's your J-O-B. This is your job right now. So please take a shot of Fluid every 7-8 minutes. I alternated shots of Vitamin Water zero with Premier Protein shakes for days on end, adding liquid vitamins to the vitamin water just one teaspoon at a time at first. You can do it!

I like this idea. I'm having a hard time but this might work better for me. I don't know if I'll get there right away but I'll try. Thanks for your suggestions. All your posts have been so helpful!!!

[Yaberhoo 358]

Many people develop a signal that they are full. I did not develop mine until I started eating pureed foods in week 3. I never felt full drinking my fluids the first two weeks. The Water passes through the sleeve very quickly.

I am in my sixth week. My warning sign of being full is that I hiccup once. If I hiccup twice, i've usually taken one bite too many. Some people have a runny nose, others hiccup like me, some have a combination of both. Eating slower has been the hardest part for me to learn. My sleeve (Runt) makes me pay dearly when I eat too much or too fast.

[thenewandbestme 81]

Amen to that! I've a couple of those instances where I had one bite too many and paid dearly for it.

That too, is my biggest challenge , eating so slow and taking such small bites.

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[FrankyG 1,450]

My full signal is I burp. I know once that starts, step away from the food!

I usually try to stop before the burping starts, as I hate trying to stifle the burps because it's embarrassing to just sit there and sound like a bullfrog for the next 10 minutes.

But the few times I ignored the burp signal, I ended up with a gross feeling of fullness and for some weird reason, a tightness/tension in my jaw bordering on pain.

[curvybritt 53]

I got a big drink bottle and subtly marked every 100ml on it. It's hard to remember to sip every 5 minutes, so if I haven't drink it all in an hour I'll try to make it up in the next hour, or I'll chug it down on the hour.

Fluids go through your stomach easily, and on my Clear and Nourishing Fluids stage I never felt full at all. My dietician says that you can drink 130-150ml at a time (the size of your stomach now) as long as you leave enough time for your stomach to digest it. I tend to leave 10 minutes. So if you think about it that way you can really get quite a lot of Water down if you concentrate on it for an hour. But then again you can also get a lot of Soup down as well.

Edited November 28, 2015 by curvybritt