It feels great to feel full

I am 15 days out and was allowed to eat walleye and carrots. 1 oz fish and 5 crinckle cut carrots . And I just wanted to share for any one that is pre op and has a problem with feeling full. I never felt full. I could eat 6 tacos , or a box of Mac and cheese , I could even consume a whole box of speghetti! Now I'm so full , as if I ate that much. Sometimes I feel guilty for feeling full, but today it's a great feeling! I hope it lasts. I'm so greatful for WLS & all you guys who listen and give me advice.

Love the full feeling! There are some days when I can just eat anything and not feel it, and some days 3 bites and I'm done.  You never know...

I noticed if I don't allow the full 30 minutes between drinking my water and eating I am very full much too fast. Starting to get into more of a routine though.

You are doing great.  Isn't it amazing that we can sometimes eat so little and feel so great.

Many times, I don't get full until I am too full.  Some folks have a signal, hiccups, sneezes, runny nose, but I don't until it is too late. 

Early out, I weighted or measured everything because I don't want to get too full and I wanted to eat on plan.  Now I weigh a lot of the time because it is too easy to let portions creep up.  Almost always, I can eat an extra ounce of something and hardly notice it.  Could I eat it, yes, did I need to eat it, usually no. 

So feeling full is good but don't count on it long term as a way to tell you when to stop.  Use the year to learn how much 1-2-or 3 oz of something looks like.  Use it to retrain your brain to accept that 3 oz is enough.  Even with our new little tummies, it isn't how much we can eat but how much we should eat.

I'm a little bitty person.  1200 cal is my baseline.  That isn't much.  So with no exercise, it I consume that extra ounce on a regular basis, I will gain.

 Thanks! Great advice ! I think I'll have to be a " lifer" to weighing and measuring. Since my problem is portion control . I just hope I can do it. 

I still have what I call my "tiny tummy" days...where very little will fill me up. Then there are days that I can eat lots (okay, not compared to pre-op, but compared to now, LOL)

Example, this weekend, we went to a friend's house for her husband's graduation party. He got his Bachelor's after 20+ years of being out of school. Anyway, they had hotdogs and hamburgers, along with other stuff. I started with the meat, of course but did have one small spoon of m&c, and a bite of the potato salad...ate a few more beans than I had planned on but still only about a spoon's worth. Ate all the hotdog & most of the burger but did NOT have any bun on mine. When we got home later, I had a yogurt for supper cause that is all I wanted.

I don't eat much fish...dh hates it and cooking two separate meals is too much of a pain, esp since he also had the same surgery I did. We are eating a LOT of chicken right now, I can get the whole ones at .89 cents a lb and put them in the rotissere. Then make several meals (as in about 8) out of one.

The rotissere has saved me this summer.

Liz

 Yum I think I'll have rotisserie for supper! 

That is great! I can't wait to finally feel full. It seems like I presently could eat everything on my plate times 2 and still not feel full. Just waiting for a surgery date.