Then will I feel Restriction?

I will be three weeks out tomorrow. I am on full liquids. I do not feel any restriction, I feel like I could drink gallons of soup! I don't though. Just wondering. Thanks!

Ha, ha. It should read "When will I feel restriction?"

It could be that you are still numb inside. You might also have a sleeve that can hold a bit more, it depends on the surgeon.

There seems to be two sets of people - those who feel no restriction with liquids and don't know what it is until they start on dense protein and those that feel full from day 1 and even liquids are hard. You probably won't feel much restriction until you are eating meats.

Most people don't feel restriction until their stomach has fully healed - which is normally around 6 weeks and when you can eat solid food.

It's super important to measure what you eat as a result, because it's easy, when you're healing and your nerves aren't communicating properly, to unknowingly overeat!

I don't think I did much at that stage either. But I my nut suggested that I probably wouldn't be able to do more than 2-4oz per "meal", so I just kept it to 2-3oz tops.

When I started pureed 2 weeks out, I started to detect some fullness. When I started soft solids is when I could tell a little better. Guessing it was a combo of more bulky food and nerves reconnecting, hormones going back to normal, etc. Talking to my nut and from what I see around here, different people have different "full" signals. Funnily enough, my nut told me that some patients start to get a runny nose. For me, it's a small burp. As soon as I feel a burp, I know it's time to put down the fork. I don't know if that will be forever, but it's helpful now.

The way your stomach works, if you consume something too liquidy, the pyloric valve opens and it goes right through. This us the primary reason we should drink while eating. The fluid can carry solids right on through, and we can eat much more, yet still not feel full.

The full feeling comes when our stomachs expand a little, causing a nerve to send the full signal to our brain. Those nerves are interrupted by surgery, so until you are healed, there will be no signal to receive. Also, it takes about 20 minutes for our brain to get that signal, even when everything is working correctly. That's why we are supposed to take 30 minutes to eat. If you eat too much in a short time, the signal hasn't had time to get through.

A lot of us have easy recoveries. Many start to think that we didn't have surgery at all. Then one day you will eat a little too much, or a little too fast, and you'll feel like you got hit by a truck.

Measure everything you eat. Don't push things too far, or too fast.

Grim means "shouldn't drink while eating." :)

Oops. Good catch. Absolutely . No drinking while eating, or 30 minutes after.

I got your back, Grim! lol