How much can you eat at 10 months out?

I feel like I eat too much at times. I am 5'7 and have gone from 281 to 165 in 10 months. I wear a size 12 now as I did back in college 11 years ago. I do not think I will lose too much more. I have alot of skin around my stomach so the last 10-15 lbs I have to lose will have to be lost with a tummy tuck. Anyway, when I am at work I eat better than when I sit at home. Generally, I eat 2 small breakfast quiches or dobie muffins (the recipes are under the cooking and baking section) for breakfast. Lunch is probably a frozen lean cuisine dinner, if I go out for lunch(which I do 1-2 times a week) it might be a $1 menu salad from Mc Donald's with $1 chicken sandwhich ( I remove the bread and then cut it up and add it to the salad) or a cup of chili, or 1/2 a 6 inch turkey sub from subway, for snack a 1/4 cup nuts or trail mix and for dinner some kind of meat like baked chicken and a few veggies. If I am hungry after dinner I may have a protein shake, NSA vanilla icecream with 1/2 cup flat A&W diet rootbeer and protein powder or a cup of carbcountdown milk with NSA Nestle quick. What do you think??? How much do you eat at 10 months out? I must admit some days are better than others. I do dump when I have too much sugar or carbs so I try to monitor my carbs and sugar levels, but I can eat mostly anything in moderation. When I eat out I eat far less than when I eat alone. The slower I eat the faster I get full. The quicker I eat the more I eat. Does that make sense?I am sometimes hungry within 3 hours after I eat. Head hunger is annoying. I am just a little worried because I know a few people who have gained back their weight a few years out and I don't want that to happen to me. Any input is greatly appreciated.

Hi T.J. I understand exactly what you mean! I too worry about gaining it back. I went from 272 wearing a size 22 jeans and 24/26 top to a size 2 or a 4 depending on the cut. I weigh nore, but I'm a smaller size than I was in High School! Lot of tummy skin though. My eating has been all over the place. I still don't drink with meals and recently measured my bowl of chili the other night because it looked like so much. It was 3/4 of a cup. I got almost too full with it. I can eat almost a whole grilled cheese sandwich, a whole chicken drumstick. 3 egg yolks over easy and 2 sausage links, etc. When I eat at home, I eat less than I do when we go out to eat. The last three days I ate constantly (every 3 hours and sometimes sooner) I just thought I was famished but then the good ol' period showed up and now I'm back to being full from a tiny bunch of grapes. Like you, when I eat fast, I eat more and when I slow down I notice when I'm full and stop. I've started writing down what I'm eating and what time just to see how many calories I'm putting away. It's averaging around 900-1200. I notice I eat more at night too. Do you still dump? I find that I get sooooooo sleepy when I have sugar. No real dumping like in the beginning, just a sugar coma/hangover. Hope some of my rambling helps. I'm curious too. Hannah

I too get sooooooo sleepy with sugar. No sickness or dumping though. But oh my... sleepy like there's no end. LOL!! And here I thought I was the only one. C ~

I am 5'10 started around 300 and now weigh 176. I went from a size 24 jeans to size 10. I still want to lose 25 more pounds. I can eat very little and struggle everyday with eating something that makes me sick as a dog. Carbs, sugar, fat all make me dump. Eating to fast makes me vomit. 1/2 scrambled egg 1cup of salad, 1/2 if I add meat 1/4 grilled cheese and I start feeling yucky 1/2 of a lean cuisine..most of the time I just eat the meat in there 3-4 bites of a subway sub

Boy all I can say is ditto ditto ditto!!! I think I eat alot more now than before / months ago/ not before surgery!!! but, if you think of what we ate before I guess we're eating probably what they would call a "normal" portion.. we aren't really used to a normal portion!! We're used to gigantic or peanut portions. Not normal portions.. I don't want to gain..HELL NO!!!!!!! I think if I start I'll freak out and stop eating..lol... I think we're all doing great. Keep up the great work. Mary

WELL YOU NOT ALONE I JUST DONT KNOW WHATS GOING ON WITH ME LATELY I EAT AND ONLY THINK ABOUT FOOD JUNK FOOD REALLY, I CAN EAT ALMOST ANYTHING JUST SMALLER PORTIONS EVERY HOUR IF IAM HOME IS REALLY BAD AND TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH I GAINED 2 POUNDS AND ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAPPENS TO ME AND IAM NOT EVEN 10 MONTHS POST-OP YET I WENT FROM 255 TO 158 BUT GAINED SO NOW 160. I CAN FIT IN A SIZE 9 PANTS AND LARGE SHIRTS I HOPE TO GO DOWN AT LEAST TO 150 AND THATS IT. SO YOU NOT ALONE IAM SO AFRAID OF GAINING BACK THE WEIGHT IT DRIVES ME NUTS. TAKE CARE AND TRY TO EAT SENSIBLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY PROTEIN AND NO JUNK FOOD ( I SHOULD REALLY TAKE THIS ADVICE CAUSE IAM THE ONE DOING THE BAD STUFFS, LOL)