How much could you eat after surgery?

[ElseeG 67]

I’m 1.5 weeks out and I just moved to soft foods today. I’ve read so many stories about people not being able to consume more than a couple of tablespoons of food in one sitting. That has not been my experience today at all. I was easily able to eat 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and one cheese stick? Is this normal? I’m of course worried my sleeve is too large.

Edited March 30, 2018 by ElseeG

[Apple203 1,314]

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Did you RD/NUT give you instructions about how much to eat?

Edited March 30, 2018 by Apple203

[aNYCdb 310]

40 minutes ago, ElseeG said:

I’m 1.5 weeks out and I just moved to soft foods today. I’ve read so many stories about people not being able to consume more than a couple of tablespoons of food in one sitting. That has not been my experience today at all. I was easily able to eat 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and one cheese stick? Is this normal? I’m of course worried my sleeve is too large.

It depends on the food. The denser it is the harder it is, plus everyone is different. For example for me tuna was a pain, but cheese wasn't.

[ElseeG 67]

9 minutes ago, Apple203 said:

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Did you RD/NUT give you instructions about how much to eat?

No, they did not. The point is that I thought one point of this surgery was to physically restrict consumption. Otherwise I would just continue to diet...

[ElseeG 67]

3 minutes ago, aNYCdb said:

It depends on the food. The denser it is the harder it is, plus everyone is different. For example for me tuna was a pain, but cheese wasn't.

Ah yes. That makes sense.

[aNYCdb 310]

1 minute ago, ElseeG said:

Ah yes. That makes sense.

Think of it this way you are training your new stomach with every stage. As you advance to the next stage you will always be able to eat more volume of things from the last stage than you can from the current one. For me (about 1.5 weeks ahead of you) this means, 8-12oz of liquids, 4-6oz of puree (in which I include the aforementioned cottage cheese), and 2-4 oz of solid foods. I would add that for me in addition to the density things that are drier I also have a more limited capacity for.