Amazed (maybe a little concerned) at how little it takes to be full...

I just ate breakfast...here is what I prepared:

1 container of egg-beaters
1 slice of low-fat cheddar cheese (broken into quarters and melted in the microwave in the egg-beaters)
1 slice of Pepperidge Farm thin sliced white bread (it's also smaller in all dimensions than a standard loaf of bread) toasted (really toasted...almost charred).

Here's what I consumed:

Approximately 25% of what I prepared.

I'm not complaining...in fact, just the opposite...I'm marveling.

Two weeks ago, I would easily have put away an entire: Subway Sunrise Melt (foot long), Starbucks Classic Breakfast Sandwich (sausage) or Egg McMuffin....as I've been reading, the day will come when I will likely be able to eat that much again (but if I'm not I won't be disappointed - really).

What comes to mind this morning is this: is this providing sufficient nourishment and nutrition?

This is apart from the daily vitamin and protein intake...

I don't want to stretch the pouch more than it naturally should be.

Can anyone provide some insight?

Thanks so much in advance.

When was your surgery? 

I am almost 2 year out and my portion size is that of a 6 year old!  I typically eat 6 times a day and for example my first thing to eat might be 1 hard boiled egg.  Then later I have a serving of friut.  I do that all day long.  Lunch and supper is usually a spinach leave salad with 3 oz of protein.  I get about 1200-1500/cals a day.

If you pay careful attention to making sure every bite counts from a nutritional standpoind and eat your protein first,  the vitamins fill in the gaps.

For me...because I am not a big person and I am 50 so my metabolism is no longer so good...I avoid all "white sutff"...that means no sugar, flour or rice.  That helps me to get enough in to stay healthy. 

 I had my sugery on WED 04 APR 2012...

Oh when I was newly post-op I could eat approximately half of nothing! Unfortunately I didn't have a good reaction to that. It freaked me out and I didn't like it.

Now at four years out my portions look like that of a healthy eater and that's good for my mentality. I can eat a portion of meat and veggies and be fine. I usually don't include starches with my meals (personal preference).

The changes that happen as a result of surgery are really amazing aren't they?

 Truly...and I'm liking them...

What you're eating is providing sufficient nourishment for the short term.  It wouldn't if that was all you'd ever be able to eat, but as you say, you'll be able to eat larger amounts later.  And because you're taking plenty of vitamins and will be getting labs done regularly, you know you are getting the nutrients you need for now.

I will be very surprised, though, if you can ever eat a footlong sub again.  At 3.5 years out, sometimes I can eat a six inch sub.  Sometimes I can only eat about half that much.

I know male-post ops who can eat a foot long And have the nerve, years after surgery, to weigh vastly less than me who eats MAYBE three slices of bread in a week. Life is not fair.

Depending on the day I can do a whole six inch sub. On Thursday I had a turkey breast/ham sub for lunch (no cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, olives and banana peppers!) and ate the entire thing. That kept me sated about five hours and I wasn't overly full after eating it. Some days, I have to leave some behind. Yesterday a Jimmy John's unwhich (made with lettuce instead of bread) got the better of me.

 I know post op males in the military now that eat terribly (big macs and the like) and don't gain a pound so I concur. In fact one in particular I'm thinking of I had no idea he was post op til I mentioned it around him.

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If I can never eat a foot-long sub again it will be far too soon...

I love this being full after only a few bites...how liberating!!

A friend of mine who is 4 years post-op tells me that when dining out (depending on the type of establishment), he will occasionally order from the children's section of the menu...I think that is a great idea...

You asked: is this providing sufficient nourishment and nutrition?

Nutrition, somewhat...along with vits and other macronutrients, yes.

Nurishment, no, but that's why you are losing weight, your energy needs are being satisfied by using your body's stores of fats to provide the necessary energy/nurishment to survive.

Pretty cool, eh? I always personally found it amazing that a body can't survive more than (what?) 3-7 days withou****er, but can survive on stores of body fat for a surprisingly long time.