eating regular food after GSP

[sassyinvirginia]

Hi

After reading all the posts on the forum it looks to me like the pre-surgery diet and the 3 week post-surgery diet is responsible for a jump start on the weight loss. After the first 3 weeks how is everyone doing with eating "normal" foods? How are they tolerated...is it necessary to eat tiny morsels of food forever? Is it comfortable to have a smaller stomach size? What I mean is.....do you have indigestion, burping, abnormal bowel movements, etc....after the adjustment period of the first few weeks? Does everything seem normal other than the portion sizes?

[shewee]

  On 12/7/2010 at 9:47 AM, sassyinvirginia said:

Hi

After reading all the posts on the forum it looks to me like the pre-surgery diet and the 3 week post-surgery diet is responsible for a jump start on the weight loss. After the first 3 weeks how is everyone doing with eating "normal" foods? How are they tolerated...is it necessary to eat tiny morsels of food forever? Is it comfortable to have a smaller stomach size? What I mean is.....do you have indigestion, burping, abnormal bowel movements, etc....after the adjustment period of the first few weeks? Does everything seem normal other than the portion sizes?

I only lost 5 pounds on my 1 week pre surgery liquid diet. I had surgery 11/17/2010. My weight loss is still pretty steady at around 4 pounds a week. I am now on solid foods. I tolerate whatever I eat pretty well. Some things that are real spicy I have a bit of a problem with right now but I probably won't later. I have no indigestion (Dr. Watkins always looks for and removes hiatal hernias when he does the surgery) BM are normal.

It is very hard to get used to eating on a small amount of food but I am happy that is all I can eat. I am slowly training myself to eat slowly, eat protein first, try to drink plenty of liquids. Just enjoy every bite since you can't take that many..

Any weight loss surgery is a tool only.