Frustrated need ideas

I am 4 months post op and so far I have listed 63 pounds. But I'm feeling like I'm constantly eating, it's like I'm always hungry. I'm not eating junk, fast foods, or anything horrible. I've been trying to keep my meals at 4oz. My doctor said I should be at 4oz for a year. However, I feel like I'm going to gain weight. I don't feel like I'm losing it fast enough. Should I just stick yo protein shakes and pass on the food? I fight with my head telling myself it will be ok. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? 

I have some suggestions as a pre-op candidate.  I'm a mom.  I would start with singular food items, like a hand full of almonds, a boiled egg and some all bran in the morning for breakfast.  spice it up with some natural food groups and vegetables, like quinoa, and corn for grains, gluten-free bread and less sugar intake. Lots of green veggies.  If you're baking muffins add zucchini and some cocoa, you'll taste the cocoa.  Plain out the food items. I remember one banana counts as two fruits in my world and is high in iron, whereas raisons may just hike the potassium for a snack.  I would want to see food as energy, small portions of what the body needs.  Be creative, and have fun with starting to naturalize.

Actually, post-op diets are quite a bit different from pre-op.  We are to focus on protein FIRST and avoid carbs/sugars.  I would NEVER eat corn, muffins, all-bran or even bananas.  In fact, I am not sure I wouldn't dump if I did.

To the OP -- follow your plan -- you are doing wonderfully.  6o-some pounds in four months is fabulous.  Eat solid and dense protein first, take in your fluids -- I still stick to around 4 oz per meal and it works.  I have lost 164 pounds in 10.5 months.  Sounds to me like you are being too hard on yourself.   

Kat W,

I am having surgery on 12/15. Could you please tell me what you eat every day? Sounds like you have been so successful. Also do you exercise. Thank you for your help. I'm so proud of you!!!

Yeah, I'm with Kat on this one. All those grains and fruits are a hurtling train to reactive hypoglycemia hell or outright dump city for a lot of us.

OP, I know it can seem a bit frightening to advance your diet after years or even a lifetime of dieting. Stay protein forward, then vegetables, then complex carbohydrates if you have any room left.

My apologies to the person posting this for wrong and not good advice.  I didn't fully understand the benefit bodily behind protein today and that that really matters. 

I am going to have to go through changes and transitions dietarily during this whole process.  The diet I had mentioned above I am quite comfortable with for myself, at this stage.  

Yes.  You will not be able to follow a diet that looks anything like what you posed once you have had your surgery!

Lora

I started eating high protein/ low carb years before my surgery. ( I did Atkins in 2010 and never fully stopped that way of eating. ) It made everything SO much easier post-op because I didn't feel like I was depriving myself of fruit or grains ( aka carbs ). 

Being a meatatarian makes life after surgery a lot easier.