Am I Lucky??

Okay, I am four weeks out from surgery.  I really haven't had any real problems.  I have always been able to drink my water, 64 oz. at least even when I was still in the hospital.  I try to remember to sip but I can bigger drinks just fine.  I have never had a prpblem.  At times I have to really watch myself, because I could gulp it and it not bother me.  After surgery for many days I did 120 ounces plus.  Now that I have started eating I do find it harder to just find the time to drink, but still get it in.  I have also not had any problem eating anything!  Which kind of scares me.  I eat from a quarter to a half cup of food.  I ussally try to keep it at a quarter of a cup.  But, I really have not had that "full" or "thats enough" feeling!  I feel like I could even eat more.  I have to much invested in this surgery for it not to be successful.  Am I lucky or is my pouch already stretched out?  Or did I really have surgery?  It scares me!  I remember them saying in our diet class that a meal would consist of two bites of chicken and a green been? Does that mean before you cut it up in little pieces?  They did not tell us to measure our food, but I have started doing it because I do not want to get to much.  Besides not having much hunger, I think I could eat way more than I should. 

I believe that you are just lucky.  The reason my dr tells us to measure food is because we can't tell when we are full early out.  I can't see that drinking water is going to stretch your pouch, it will pretty much just run out.

I have not measured food, I just eyeball it. And trust me, you WILL know when you've had too much....one more bite could be the difference between swallowing and it coming back up!! TRUST ME! LOL. I have had NO complications either--I just told Dr B on Tuesday that I still don't beleive I had surgery and we laughed about it. Food is an afterthought with me! GREAT THING! Chris told me I actually have to eat more!! MORE!!! Yes, the smaller you cut the pieces of food the better...plus the psychological feeling of getting more (if that works for you). The smaller you make your pieces and the more you chew, the more will fit, but you don't HAVE to make it fit! I'm still not hungry, don't know when/if that feeling will come back. Hope not! I personally have to concentrate on sticking with protein and since nothing sounds good or new or different (much) these days, a couple slices of deli meat works fine. I'm such a cheap date now!

Seriously, you will know if you overeat and if you're not hungry, DON'T OVEREAT! This VGS surgery was a godsend and I am SO thankful, SO appreciative, SO blessed to have this turn out like this...it's amazing and I will NOT disappoint myself or my family by not doing right by my new life. MARK MY WORDS!!!!!!

I have already started shopping in the ladies section rather than the fat ladies' section and trust me, THAT is motivation! I'm just about out of my current clothes and my newfound body is really, really enjoying the transformation and the world of new fun apparel!

You know, the not feeling hungry scared me at first, like it couldn't possibly be 'that easy' but really, it's NOT easy! What we think we want and what we have to have are two very different things and you could blow it pretty easily I think...I'm not going to try and find out!!!

MARK MY WORDS TOO!!

My doctor told us to start measuring from the very first day becaus ethat full feeling does take awhile to come back and even when it does it will not be the same feeling you experienced before surgery. Eating slowly and chewing well is another way to make your body think its getting more. Another is to use kid sized plates and silverware. And I have to agree the difference between ok and OH NO can be one bite even now I can take one bite to many and know it immediately. You really have to tune into the new clues your body is sending you, it might be something totally odd that is your trigger you are full. I have heard some that say they have atiny hiccup and if they eat past that they get sick. I was lucky and while it took me awhile to learn my own clues I havent had any complications.  Best of luck in your journey!

I am eight weeks out.  I could have written the exact paragraph you just wrote.  I have experienced all of the above.  I have not over eaten.  I guess I am too scared to eat too much.  I had my  6 week meeting with Chris and she was surprised that I was following all the eating rules.  I to have too much invested in this to not do it right.  I really think you are doing all the right things and what you are experiencing is normal.  At least it is normal for me. I truly thank God for this being such a positive change in my life.  I do not measure my food.  I just know when to stop.

I am one week from being 4 months out and I also could have written your paragraph. But let me tell ya. there will come a day when you will try something new that will not work for you. For me it was chopped brisket...it got stuck and I was miserable for about 3 hours untill I finally made myself puke and got relief...sorry for the TMI. But really other than that one time, i've had a really really smoothe ride. I'm down to 168 from 233 and that's in 4 months. I'm down to a size 10 from a 24 I know it gets hard when you take it one day at a time, and your not feeling like things are working right. I acutally accused my surgeon of cutting me open ( I had open rny) just so I would see the scar and think i had surgery when I really didn't...like I was the placebo in the experiment of WLS....but I wasn't and neither are you. Just keep up the good work, this feeling will pass i promise.