Each dr says something different! I'm on the pured stage and I can do 2-3 oz of food at each meal. Next week I see the dr and dietician, hope to get moved to mechincal soft stage and 4 oz of food!

How often do you eat? I'm having 3 meals a day and that's all and I'm hungry.

Are your protein shakes separate from your meals? Do you have 3 meals plus the protein shakes? Also, you can still eat sf jello and popsicles and broth if you are still feeling signs of hunger. What are you eating with your 2 ounces of protein? If it is a meal it is meant to be more than 2 ounces of protein only.

Sweetie, at this point... you are not physically hungry. This is head hunger you are experiencing! A nasty head game! My surgeon said that true physical hunger does not come around till at least 6 months post op, that our bodies don't know how to be physically hungry at this point.

Believe me, I thought I was too... but the more I learned to listen to my body, the more I knew it was not real, physical hunger.

At 5 months post op, I STILL do not feel real hunger... just my head stuff!

Hang tough and listen ever so quietly to your body... it takes time, and work...but soon you'll see what I am talking about :)

^^^^^ This girl is brilliant!! Totally worth listening to!!

JJ

Well my stomach feels hungry. I'm eating just 3 times a day- no protein shakes inbetween. Today I had half a yogurt, 2 oz of cottage cheese, 2 oz chicken, and 4 oz of a protein shake because I felt weak and light headed.

Green,

You don't have to have 2 protein shakes a day now???

My Dr has me on, 12-24 ounces of protein shakes per day, I have 16 ounces of protein shakes with 8 oz of skim milk, and then they have me on 1-2 ounces of protein per meal.

Boo

Are you drinking at least 64 oz of fluid per day also??

THat fills you up.

Last night, I felt like my tummy was grumbling, so I heated up a can of fat free, low sodium chicken broth ,and that did the trick!!!

Boo

Yes I'm doing the 64 oz of fluids. They didn't tell me to do any certain amount of protein shakes. I feel like I have no guidance! They say move up to phase 3 but I have no idea how many times to eat a day or how much to eat!

I would think that, at your stage, you should be going one protein shake (1/2 when you get up and 1/2 in the evening maybe), 1 breakfast of 2 oz protein with 1/2 carton of greek yogurt, 1 lunch of 2 oz protein with maybe 3 or 4 spoons of cottage cheese, and 1 dinner of 2 oz protein with a string cheese. Is this about what you are doing?

Greeni, I think what you feel is hunger is really the workings of your new pouch. I spent a lot of time analyzing these feelings as I too thought it might be physical hunger. In the end I still do not have physical hunger, but often feel things my brain interprets as hunger...the rumbling and grumblings and movements of the new piping. It is hard to wrap your brain around the fact that so little food does fill the pouch and that you will survive on it. I am almost 11 weeks post RNY and still working through the head vs pouch feelings...give yourself time. I am allowed about a 1/2 a cup per my 3 meals. Sometimes I eat less, sometimes more for instance salad I can eat more, but not much more. I can have a snack, but have opted not to until the need becomes a real need...lol. You seem to have a lot of anxiety, worries about the RNY. Do you belong to a local support group? Do you have a surgery buddy? Relax, you are doing great with your tool and it will all feel closer to normal for you soon. Also, when you think you're hungry take a walk or something to distract yourself. IK when I am bored those feelings become harder to handle.

I was never on the ounce thing. My nut had me watching calories. I was about 600-800 a day at that point.

No that's not what I'm having. I'm not allowed to have real food yet so I'm not having 2 oz protein with anything. My meal IS 2 oz cottage cheese, or 2 oz egg, whatever and that's all. I'm not allowed to have string cheese yet. When they told me to progress to stage 3, they said I can add cottage cheese, mashed potatoes, soft eggs, and tuna or chicken salad. So my meals have been 2 oz of one of these things but that's all. And I still feel hungry.

Tjordal- no I don't have a surgey buddy. I also don't belong to a support group. I had school on the night if the support group offered near me so I came here instead.

Green - how many weeks has it been since your surgery?