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It's different for everyone. You might talk to your group about the level of difficulty you're experiencing and see if they think it's normal. 4 weeks out, I could eat most things, but the stuff with a tough texture needed lots and lots of chewing and teenie tiny bites. Everyone is so different. How your body reacts is different. Surgeon's choice of how much to remove, how fast you heal, how much you swell....lot of variables.

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At 4 weeks I was about to start soft foods. I was only eating about 1/4 of a cup of food 3 times a day & took 20 - 30 mins to eat. I wasn’t hungry or really interested in eating. Plus some of what I tried to eat tasted awful & I couldn’t tolerate the texture of some foods. Sometimes it was almost like a chore to actually prep a meal & then if I couldn’t eat it … ugh! Don’t know if this is anything like what you’re experiencing.

Do you have any pain or discomfort when you eat? (You could still have some swelling.) Is there a degree of anxiety about eating more solid food (damage your tummy, stretch your tummy, stop losing, …)? Not uncommon but certainly issues you need to raise with your medical team.

Some people just need to go through the initial stages more slowly while others seem to zip through them without an issue. We heal differently. Our bodies react differently. Listen to your body. If it’s not ready to move on give it a little longer. If it’s ok, try a little more.

It does take time to discover how this will all work for you. You will eat differently then you did before - when you eat, what you eat, why you eat. It can be scary & cause doubts about what you’re doing. We’ve all been there to varying degrees.

Good luck.

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You are describing exactly what I'm going through. Thank you for the encouragement. Sometimes I feel Male nourished and it scares me. But I will just give it more time. Again, thank you so much.

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