How do you know when you ate a bite too much? Grouchy pouch days!

Today i had 2 yogurts all day to eat nothing else and the 2nd one i didn't even eat all of it. Tonight i had chicken salad with 2 hard boiled eggs and a cheese stick it all measured out to 1 cup. I always measure out a cup. A lot of the time i can eat a cup. Well tonight i finally ate for dinner and i ate one egg and half of the cheese stick and a few bites of the chicken salad. It's actual salad and chicken breasts. I am shocked because normally especially eating 1 meal i could have maybe eaten all of this and i don't know if i ate too fast or overdid it but i got badly bloated for about 10 minutes and thought i would throw up. Did i overeat? Usually i don't get hiccups till a few minutes after the last bite and once i stopped because of the nausea and bloating sure enough came the hiccups. It's so weird being almost 11 weeks out and how different the days vary according to how my pouch deals with food and how much i can eat it's never the same. Does it sound like i had a incident of overeating or maybe just eating too fast possibly?

I have meals where I can't eat as much as I can at other times.  Perhaps its eating too fast or something still being in there from an earlier meal, I don't really know.  I could never eat two hardboiled eggs and a cheese still much less both those with a chicken salad too...that sounds like a bit meal to me.  I had a two egg omlette with peppers, onions and cheese for breakfast today and was only able to eat 2/3's before I started to feel full.

For me, I ate too fast. You are at the point of learning about your personal preferences. You may want to keep a food journal not only of what you ate but your mental and bodily reactions. Then you can look back and maybe see a pattern.

Was the chicken breast in the salad kind of dry? If so that may cause it. To this day at goal and 1 year out, I have a lot of problems with chicken breast. I have to eat the dark parts of the chicken like the legs etc. That may have done you in. Hard boiled eggs are dry as well so that may have caked up your pouch. Hard to say. One day it gives you problems and the next it goes down fine.

Yes it was a bit dry. Maybe i can't do it dried out like this... every other time i have chicken breasts i don't have an issue.

I think you ate too much. Eggs and chicken are both dense foods. I can't eat two boiled eggs still. I can't eat more than half a chicken breast at a time with a few bites of veggies

You may want to check with your surgeon and nut to be sure at 13 weeks out they want you to eat a cup of food. The standard suggestion of food measurement for a mature pouch is a cup to a cup and a half. This is a forever suggestion not a newbie suggestion.

You may want to consider trying half a cup of food at a meal until you can truly feel the post-op full feeling which is not like Pre-op overeating signal.

Yep my brochure says 1/2 to 1 cup is fine per meal. I can't always do a cup it really depends upon the foods and what my pouch is allowing really. I am only 10 weeks out almost 11 wks out.

Are you sure that's the measurement for immediately after surgery and not where you eventually want to be? Mine says that ultimately we should get to about a cup but that it isn't likely early out.

It sounds like you're eating too much. Eggs, salad and a cheese stick all at once is a lot. Why not space it out more and make a protein based snack instead of all at once

I am post op for 20 months and that is  too much for me. Any thing over 1 cup is over my tolerance.

I would check on the amount of food you believe you should be eating because a cup of food is a LOT of food for someone who just had surgery.  I am 6 years out, and I could not have eaten the eggs and the chicken and the cheese!  All three of those are very dense.  i am not even sure i could do just the two eggs together.  I think you probably are too much, but dry chicken can cause all sorts of issues.  I didn't throw up once until I was 18 months out and some chicken that was too dry, and hat I ate a bit too quickly, made me miserable until it came back up.

Lora