I do not enjoy eating any more.

I know people tell me all the time they wish they could eat like me and be full so fast. But it is just taking eating a bother to me.

 I am all most two years out. I have found the last several months I do not enjoy eating any more. I love going out with family and friends to eat. Love to cook for the family and friends. But I find I can eat half a chicken Brest and than be full. I know this when I start eating that I eat small.

I save the rest for later on but it is starting to bother me just when I am getting in to my food I am full so fast and to have left overs is not so thrilling to me. Wonder if others feel like this?. I can say I still am very happy I had my surgery or I would be over 400 lbs. Just want some ideas what others are doing and feeling about eating. 

It is funny that you bring this up. I am finding now that I have to eat more solids to maintain that I just find myself not wanting to eat. I would rather slurp shakes all day and not worry about it. Such a huge difference for us all I bet. I never got good at eating slow as I had 32 years of shoving as many calories into my fat butt as quickly as possible and have found that hard to break. The biproduct of that is I feel sickly after I eat regulalrly. I am smart and even working on a masters but I am not smart enough to stop shoving food down as quickly as possible knowing it is going to make me uncomfortable for the next hour, go figure that one out and check back with me. Anyway, I have no good advice as I am in the same boat but I am right here with you my dear. Maybe someone else will post the magic bullet, haha.

 Good to know I am not a lone on this. Just like you I would rather drink than eat. At least I am able to enjoy the taste. I do not think their is a magic bullet just need another way to deal with this. It is so strange going from eating so fast and so much to not want to eat or eating so small. But like I said I am happy I had my VSG just need to deal with this problem. 

When I go see my doc this month for my 2 year I am going to tell him and see what he tells me or find out if others have told him this. Thank you justeric I do not feel so all a lone now.

So funny that you say this.  My eyes and food amount perception is now calibrated to my stomach size.  It has been like this for quite some time.  I guess we all change at a different rate.  I remember feeling like you do at one time though, and it really sucks!!!!!

As far as the chicken breast goes, I never cook chicken breasts anymore because it messes with my head to have a bigger piece of food on my plate than I can eat. Since as a former obese person, I am programmed to eat everything on the plate, and leaving food on the plate feels like a crime. 

  Instead, I make chicken tenderloins and can eat 2 of them.  2 of them equals around 3 ounces.  Eating two chicken tenderloins versus being unable to eat one chicken Breast is psychologically more satisfying.  I never put more food on the plate than I can eat, since I am a recovering food addict, and will overeat my sleeve if the food is on the plate.  I still have to measure and weigh my food so that it does not happen.

With steak, I cut off the best part of one steak off for me, my husband gets one steak and my other half steak.

Well Val I am 3 1/2 years out and feel exactly like you.  I want to eat but when I do I don't feel good.  I am still super restricted and sometimes it just plain sucks.  I don't so much mind the small portions but the yucky feeling after eating.  I always feel Thanksgiving full...even on 2 oz of meat and a few bites of veggies.  I have several sleever friends and they do not feel this way.  So I guess we are not all the same.  I feel ya honey,  I really do.


Laura

 Thank you so much for posting this I posted something similar a while back I am 3.5 years out and always feel bad after eating it Is frustrating because I live food I love to cook I look forward to it and then bam I feel terrible. When I posted awhile back I got responses as there is something wrong with me get checked but seems like I'm not alone I am grateful for the restriction and actually sometimes for the feeling bad keeps me in check so I have mixed emotions over my feelings after eating just hoping someday I can get use to this thanks again so good to know I'm not alone 

I'm 3 years out and i wish I still had that much restriction.

I remember  a time when I would rather drink a shake than eat. I am not sure when that changed.

I wish there were more people who are more than 3 years out. I am hoping I am not going to stretch anymore than I already  have. Most of the time, I don't  eat until I am full, and just eat the amount i am supposed to eat.

soon I will be 2 1/2 years out, and I feel just like you do also.
I can't eat until full, or I feel yucky, but it is really hard to predict how much I will be able to eat on any given day. I have excellent restriction, and know that I cannot eat much, but it varies greatly depending upon what I eat. Since I am mostly vegetarian, and rarely eat meat, I find it much harder to gauge my meals. I get most of my protein from legumes, and sometimes soy meat substitutes. Never have used protein shakes, and have never had trouble maintaining below goal for the last couple of years. Honestly, it is difficult to get enough protein with my restriction, and using actual food to get it, but it is part of what my long term goals were, and that is to eat a healthy (mostly) vegetarian diet, and be able to maintain a healthy weight. I really have to focus on eating to keep from losing weight constantly. When I am really busy with my grandchildren etc., I can easily lose 3-5 lb per week, without realizing it.
I love my sleeve, but the leftovers are far from thrilling, and I have never thrown out so much food, as I am doing these days. Seems like I am throwing things out every single meal.
Love my sleeve, though. It is an answer to my prayers. Very thankful that I cannot eat an entire restaurant meal, and probably never will again. I hope not anyway.

I have periods like this. But they pass. It won't be forever. Nothing is forever when it comes to WLS.