Oh lord no lol. I ate the yogurt for breakfast, chilli for dinner

Friendly suggestion to phone your WLS team for any guidelines they missed giving you.  Mine started out with 1/4 cup, then 1/2 cup, graduating to no more than 1 cup of food at one time for the rest of my life.  I don't count calories but guess my protein drinks/bars easily made it a 300-500 calorie day in the beginning.  Todays' food portions are placed on a six-inch plate or sauce bowl.   I am also instructed to eat every three waking hours making sure it is a DENSE protein first, vegetable second food choice. My own, personal food allowance that ends up more is lettuce salad, but don't tell anyone.  With this new lifestyle routine, words like "hungry" or "full" are meaningless. You'll get the hang of things before you know it.

Hi and congratulations! I think you've managed the worst of it. I'm just past 6 weeks myself but my hardest part so far was right where you are. Everyone told me it would get better and it has! I think the chili and yogurt amounts are fine. According to their website a small chili is less than one cup. So a third of that is what? two, maybe two and a half ounces? Thank God for yogurt or I might have really struggled. Of course you need to listen to your team (that's why they're your team!) but having said that I know how it seems like what they're saying is complicated. For me the trick has been figuring out the foods that agree with me. And according to MY team the amounts listed by another poster here are pretty much spot on. I also have to fill in with a protein shake or even just fat free milk to get my protein. And I've rediscovered cottage cheese and find that helps too. Good luck to you (and me!)

Not much.

Measure, measure...measure.

Off hand, I think Is till in the liquid stage as in clear broths/ and pureed soups.

I believe it was 1/8-1/4 of a cup.

And you had to drink it SLOW.. LIke a sip every minute over a 30 minute period.

And there were protein shakes too.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

My plan had weights and measurements.  And I followed them to the letter (and I still do now).

Hey .Bed Bath and Beyond sells collapsilbe measuring cups of silicone. Consider them. Like another poster..they are in my purse, my desk drawer. Seriously, Ibought 4 sets (some for the drawers, purse,home, dirty in the dishwasher) and i have NEVER regretted it. They come off their ring so you can easily take the size that is relevant to you.

I was told, you can "spring a leak" until 3 weeks post-op if you eat too much. So my plan was very liquidy (i.e. clear soups and protein shakes). I was very mindful that I could spring leaks so I sipped and too things in the smallest volume and as slowly (sipping/eating duration wise) as possible.

Thank you all for your replys :)

I have found it very difficult to measure by volume (how do you measure chicken strips in a 1/4 cup?) so I have relied on a digital kitchen scale I got on amazon.  I use it every single day.  Even at almost 1.5 years out, I suck at guessing 3 oz vs. 5 oz.  So I measure by weight, rather than volume.  

Slider foods are foods that are not dense protein and slide right through your pouch, making it hard to feel full and leaving you full for less time.  Slider foods include yogurt and other liquids, AND carbs like crackers and chips.  I can eat an almost unlimited amount of wheat thins but 3 ounces of chicken fills me right up.  This is why it's so important to eat dense protein first first first.  I hope your NUT helps give you some good guidelines, and feel free to check out the "what are you eating today" posts on the RNY and VSG boards.  It may give you helpful food ideas as you move further from surgery.

Good luck!

^^^This. A kitchen scale is more important than a bathroom scale. Weighing your food is much more accurate than measuring cups.

I'm about the same length out and I posted something earlier in the week that ended up with me getting a ton of advice that was really great that I honestly didn't know because I didn't get a lot of guidelines from my NUT so it sounds like we're in kind of the same boat. And I do get the full feeling but not with things like yogurt really so I'm measuring things now like people suggested on my post and not having any issues with that.

Really depends on what you are eating. Three weeks out and I was still on things like scrambled eggs and grits. I was over a year out before I could eat anything, including chili, with ground beef in it. And even after that time, it had to be a higher fat content ground beef. No chuck or ground round. It sat in me like gravel and made me feel awful.