No restriction

I've posted on the revision board but I thought i would post here too. I am three months out from removal of lap band and revision to RNY. My issue is no restriction. I never feel any sense of fullness and when I eat I could just keep eating and eating if i didn't measure my food. My weight loss has been at little slower than most (36 lbs.) and I get that....but what I don't get is the never feeling full. And it has been this way from the start. My surgeon's office kind of made me feel like they don't believe me but I am having an upper GI this week. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thank you all!

What are you eating? Can you post a sample day's menu with quantities? I get no restriction at all from a lot of foods but get full pretty quickly on dense protein. I also found that I was hungry all the time when trying to stay under 800 calories a day (which many on this board will swear to when in the losing phase), no matter what I was eating.

The only time I feel restriction is eating dense protein. I can eat as much as I please with carbs and slider foods. Try eating just steak for a meal and see if you get any restriction.

i never had lap band but understand there can be a lot more restriction with it.

I have to weigh and measure food to be sure I am not eating too much.

Thank you for the advice!

Exactly what WhiteDove said. Dense proteins are the only thing that can make me full and sometimes uncomfortably so. Sometimes 2 ounces is enough, sometimes 3 or 4. And things like meatballs don't. Chicken and salmon are my go tos when I feel hungry because it doesn't take much and I'm good until the next meal.

Hi Jenbug, sounds like you and I had the same surgery about a week apart, and I am also expereincing much less restriction than I expected.

Since the band gave me such problems whenever I ate, I honestly feel like now that it is out, I can eat ALL THE THINGS! I don't choke, and I don't feel intense seering pain, so I feel like my food options have been opened wide, instead of the intense restriction that most other RNY patients feel in their first few months.

But, as the other posters said, dense protein does it for me. Yogurt--never full... I could eat 6 more! Even deli meat or chili won't necessarily fill me. But a peice of fish, chicken or turkey? Or even a veggie burger? I am stuffed and usually can't finish.

It sounds like you need a check to see what is going on!... I had a variation of three intestinal surgeries at one time, 20 years ago. I still have very much restriction..a tops of 6 ounces, with sips of warm liquids...( I eat two meals and a snack most days, to get my nutrition in.).. there is a hormone, that makes us feel full. many people who have weight issues, lack sufficient amounts of this hormone.dh

i am 7+ years post op.

When I eat more carbs, specially in the morning - it triggers insulin in my body and I lose my sense of "restriction". I cant explain why... I just know...

I can eat 4 oz of steak with a few bites of cooked veggies and be full for hours.. or I can eat fruits, or soft foods like there is not tomorrow and not feel that I am full.

if I have a few days that are rather full of carbs (i,e too much fruits or starchy veggies ) I get really hungry and feel like I need a lot to eat to be "full".

but low carb diet - moderate fat really work for me. Even 7 years out...

Even with dense protein - chicken, fish, meat - I never feel full. I'm seeing my surgeon tomorrow. I had an upper GI last week and the radiologist said everything looked good. So I don't even know what to say to my surgeon at this point. He doesn't seem to believe me and I truly feel something is wrong but I dont' know what

Please post a daily sample menu... we may have some helpful ideas.

Audrey