Help I don't know if this is normal...

I am at 2 months post and I never feel full 

I really feel my pouch was not the correct size because day 1 i did not feel really full or never got sick from sweets or anything. I am scared because I do not want to have done this surgery for no reason.

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

From what I understand, the nerves in your stomach are cut during the surgery so you don't feel full.  That is why it is so important early on to measure what you eat. 

Trust me, as time goes on and the nerves heal, you will start to feel very full.  Especially if you eat dense protein. 

Don't eat the sweets.  If you know they don't bother you, you will be more likely to test the limits.  I don't dump either, but I try to stay away from the sweets as if I do.

Keep measuring your food and stick with your eating plan, and you will do fine.

 

 

You won't feel full for quite a while as the nerves have been cut during surgery. That is why it is SO important to follow your plan and MEASURE your food according to your surgeon's plan/ nutrtionist's guidelines. And why are you already trying "sweets"??
Stick to your plan and the surgery will do its job.
Ear right, take your vitamins, drink your water and exercise.
Good luck!

I hear ppl say that all the time but I have felt full from the first day I got home, which wasnt easy because my grandmother died and there was food everywhere and ppl kept asking me to eat or fix them a plate. Now my mind wants to eat more but my stomach will not let me. I had  2 scoops of yogurt and I think it was too much cause I felt as if I had eaten the whole carton.. LOL I just mad 2 months out today 3/3

I felt fullness from the second week post-op.  There was no mistaking it.  I don't know how to explain it (although my surgeon's information book did not mention not feeling full because of nerves being cut and I *did* feel full, so I never bothered to look into it), but I know what I felt.

Lora

"Eat" right, not "ear" right. Lol

Talk to your surgeon. He may have made a larger than normal pouch or a bigger stoma opening. Every surgeon has their own ideas of what is right and there is no standard for pouch or stoma size.

You could always do the cottage cheese test for pouch size. Google that. It is better to know what is going on.

Fullness, like hunger, does not come immediately postop. Be patient and measure your food. At 2 months you can only eat a couple of ounces of food. If the food comes up then you know you have hit your limit. I try to stop eating before that happens. Also, sweets are a bad idea. Just don't do it--you'll end up gaining weight again. Try sugar-free snacks, like SF pudding or popsicles.

The size of your pouch has nothing to do with whether or not sweets make you sick.  About 30% of people that have RNY experience dumping syndrome if they eat too much sugar, not because they have small pouches, but because sugar is absorbed too quickly in their small intestine and causes an abrupt change in blood sugar.

A better question is how many sweets are you eating already?  And why are you eating them?

I could not tell  when i was full in the beging took me about 4 months to figure out that when my pouch starts talking to me its time to stop got it figured out now but if i over eat something dense like steak it lets me noo rite away and i have to go lay down concentrate on eating rite protien first and veggies drink you water and take your vitimans the wheight will come off its all good if you it the rite things i,m 9 months out and have lost a 170 lbs from my heavy wt i coulddrink water and eat with out problems that so many have i conseder it a blessing went from 56 waist down to 44 5xl shirts to 2xl and can walk  again