Am I eating too much?

I am post-op one week today. Dr. Olham in Georgetown Ky did my Realize Band. The question I have is am I eating too much? I thought you were only supposed to be abel to eat approx. 2-4 oz. I just finished a meal of 6 oz. homemade vegetable soup, 6 tsp of Sugar Free Jello and 4 oz. of Sugar Free Pudding. It was only after eating this much that I felt full. Any input would greatly be appreciated.  http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/victorianviva/

Hi Victoria, First off, mushies seem to go down easier and through your stoma (banded area) much quicker so you might have been emptying out the bottom before you finished the meal. What each person can eat a week out from surgery is hard to judge.  I was eating maybe 4 to 6 oz at a time.  My hubby was eating 10 to 12oz at a time by then!  What does the information you received from your bariatric group say as far as volume of food per meal?  My group (Norton Bariatric) suggests that a person who is banded and at proper restriction shoouldn't be abe to eat more than a cup of food in volume at a time and to try to stick as close to that as possible until.  The key words there are PROPER RESTRICTION.  People who haven't had fills yet and haven't found their point of restriction likely can (and many do) eat much more than that 1 cup!  I am guilty of this myself from time to time! It's very possible that the Bluegrass Group's recomendation for lap-banders is 2-4 oz per meal but that very much sounds like diet recommendations for gastric bypass patients.  Every once in a while someone comes to the local support group and after some discussion it comes out that they are on the wrong diet for their type of WLS!! Have you found the lap band board yet??  The KY board is great but sometimes you will get a quicker and more detailed band question answered over there!  If you need the link let me know!