Question re hungry/full

Im in week 7...and I never feel hungry but, can tell usually when my body needs nourishment (and usually eat based on the clock).  However,  I never feel full.  I also think I can eat more than others I've seen on this board, and faster.   This scares me.  For instance, I had 3.5 oz soft chicken with 2 broccoli florettes and 3 oz greek yogurt w 2 tbsp applesauce.  I felt satisfied...but not full.  I'm so scared about this down the road...so scared about over eating.

Was the Greek yogurt/applesauce in the same meal as the chicken/broccoli?  

Excellent question. The yogurt and applesauce are "sliders" -- eating with chicken and broccoli is not only way too much but also akin to adding fluid to solids making it all slide...

Good point!!  That puts things in perspective!  Thanks!

Your surgery may still have been recent enough that you still can't feel full.

The bigger question is, you know you aren't supposed to be eating this much, but you still do. Why? Particularly when you say you don't feel hungry to begin with?

Measure out the amount you are supposed to be eating, and put the rest of the food away, out of sight. Then eat only the proper amount.

I've been told I can have 4 oz.  I guess I should have stopped aat the chicken and broccoli.  Or had less chicken so I could also have a couple of tablespoons of yogurt.

i miss feeling full.

Here's the conundrum with WLS.  We often don't feel hungry, but we still want to eat to fullness.  

I try to focus on eating what I need to meet my daily requirements - 80 grams of protein.  I try not to eat until I feel full because it's not really the gauge you need to use to determine whether you've eaten enough.

At seven weeks post surgery, your body may still be in healing mode.  It's very important to measure everything you eat and not rely on your stomach to let you know when you've had enough.

Yogurt and applesauce are slider foods.  They will never make you feel full.  The key is to measure measure measure EVERYTHING as a post WLS n00b.  Your eyes are bigger than your stomach right now.  You're used to larger portions which your body no longer needs.  Down the road it gets easier to eyeball the right quantities, but I remember how surprised I was post surgery when I actually weighed out three ounces.  It seemed so tiny, yet when I ate it, it was more than enough.

I don't understand why you are pushing the limits so early out.

The mental part is definitely the hardest.  I hope you work on this or you will be researching a third weight loss surgery in the future.

Wow.  Im not sure if you intended to sound snarky....but that's how your comment came across.

I'm not really sure I'd consider myself "pushing limits"....I suppose having the yogurt could be pushing it...so I won't have again.  I'm only having 2 protein shakes a day plus one "meal."  Less than 700 calorie****ting all my protein and water requirements.  I was told a few days ago I should be having 4 oz at my meal ****il then I was having 4 tbsp of yogurt and cottage cheese 6x a day per my nutritionist's direction).  Being new to this eating meat thing...I just realized, that there is no full feeling.  And it scares me.

I always felt "full" (quickly) with the lapband.  I could not tolerate as much...so it's a very weird feeling.  Very much a learning process.

Why would your surgeon have you jump from eating only 4 tablespoons at a time to eating 4 ounces at a time?!? That is a huge jump, and most people would have trouble eating 3.5 ounces of dense protein at one sitting at just 7 weeks out.  

Eating yogurt is a great way to get protein in. It should NOT be eaten along with something else, though, because it will help the more solid food slide through your pouch... Which may explain why you are not feeling full!  3.5 ounces of any solid protein (beef, poultry, fish, even a hard cheese) should be plenty to make you feel full at only 7 weeks out.

Lora