Anyone else have food troubles like this

Sup boys? So here is my dilemma (SP). Four months out and have the ok to eat all foods. I don't dump per say, I just end up feeling like ass for an hour or so. Vegtables all go down with ease, and I can usually put down a good amount considering the pouch size. Same with fruit. I eat maybe a 1/4 cup of blueberries in my 8 oz of Fage Greek yogurt and eat the whole thing. Meat is the tough part. I can do meatballs easily. Chicken goes down some days and other days sucks. Same with fish. The only seafood I rarely have a problem with is grilled shrimp. I can't even get into the part about the constant constipation even when eating colace like Skittles. Anyone else go through this sort of thing? I have a feeling that it is because the stuff is "dry" to me. Can I look forward to things getting better or after 4 months am I pretty set in what I can and can't do?

How much water are you drinking a day?  I'm just short of 3 weeks out and have found that If i short myself water, I will feel a bit "Ruff" and end up slightly constipated.  Also I might be a problem with too much food.  I have had that twice now.   What works better for me is 5 smaller meals a day makes me feel alot better than 3. My 2 cents. Will

4 months, thing were still pretty limited even though I had the green light to eat what I want,..with my newly learned proper eating parameters,.....oh yeah,..thats right.  The new rules,...not the old preop rules. I am at 7.5 months and just getting where it all seems to go down OK if I go slow enough but I still fill pretty quickly and choose to not push or eat more than  I should as part of my new mindset is, I can take it home or put it in a container and fin**** at another meal.  After you've actually done that, it is a kind of victory over the old habits.  I was kinda proud of myself for putting some back after serving myself the old portion and realizing I'd never eat that and even if I could, I really shouldn't. Use the limitations as continuing mental conditioning for healthy lifestyle eating training.  We never want to go back.  I chose to have my plumbing altered so I could be a different person with a different digestive capability.  I have to choose to make the mental adjustments to accompany the physical changes or I will just bend the pipes back into the old shapes. I think one of the cliches on this board is: "nothing tastes as good as being thin". Brother,  that is the truth. For the record, fish and chicken still give me trouble but less than in the past.  At 4 months, I'd get sick every time I tried.

Yeah, I am definitely not going to the old me. I usually take things home but I rarely eat it again. I am very conscious of what goes in. I haven't "tried" new things that I shouldn't, and I don't snack. I try to get what I think is enough water in. I find myself getting sick of things also. No longer can I eat eggs, chicken salad, Wendy's chili, and some others I cannot think of right now.

just be glad you are doing as well as you are. I'm about 3months out,  I can eat  vegetables and fruit  and most grains, but i can rarely keep meat down, ground beef is okay once in a while, but never had any good luck with chicken. I just try to eat and drink as much dairy as i can, usually  1qt of milk a day and a yogurt. of course i am also cursed with good luck, i don't dump on sugar or excess fat usually. I would trade the lack of dumping for the abbilibty to eat a nice piece of meat once a day. just keep drinking and doing as you are able, and keep walking\

Hi Tom, I started to say add veggies but I read your post again and you are eating them. That is what helped me. I will be 5 months in a week. At first I was just focussing on protien and passing the bricks were tough. Then I started to eat veggies and that really helped.  I would have to go along with adding more water. I have a 20 oz. bottle at my desk at work and I drink three of those at work a day plus what I drink at home. I keep the SF single serving drink mixes at work so it's not just plain water. Wal-mart brand "grape" is my current favorite with the "orange early rise" a close second.   pan head

Hey Pan,
Those Wal-mart SF drinks mix really well with a scoop of unflavored Unjury protein powder. FYI. Become a bit of a staple for me.

Tom, It does keep getting easier for the first year and a half. Moist, Moist, Moist!!! Chicken just at the moment it’s done, not a second longer. High water content veggies along with meat. (zucchini, tomatoes, cucumber, etc…) Also, chew more and eat slower. Even if you are sure that you are eating tiny enough bites And chewing stuff to death, go slower and chew less food more times. Beyond what seems sane! Once it becomes habitual, you won’t feel like you are eating too small of bites, But the "old-school" gulp and chomp habits will be broken. Yes? I’m right at 4 years now, and if meat is too dry And I don’t eat it along with enough wet veggies, It’ll sit in my pouch like I’ve swallowed a brick. For that constipation thang? More soluble fiber (have an apple a day) up the water intake, And add a little fat to your intake. It "lubes the tubes." If you add monounsaturated fats like olive oil it’ll also lower your "bad cholesterol" levels. Yep, it gets easier….. Faster if you keep working on consumption habits. Best Wishes- Dx

I know chicken i**** and miss for me.  The best thing for me is having it as moist as possible- even adding sauce of some sort.  I am just starting to be able to ease red meat in now, about 10 months out.

I'm at 6 weeks and chicken isn't much of a problem for me, but most of my chicken (twice a week) is coming from a local Thai restaurant, and I order the dishes with large pieces stewed in a curry sauce, very tender.  (Mmm, I think it's leftovers time.)  Indian would also do the trick.  I also chew everything compulsively even by WLS standards, because I spent two weeks throwing up (it was a stricture, no amount of chewing was going to fix it). The only issue I'm having right now is that on days when I feel I need a second protein shake (or I do a double), they can leave me a strange combination of sickly and hungry. Now  that I think about it, I don't think I've tried a fruit or non-starch vegetable since the surgery.  Maybe it's time...