Did I have Surgery?

I am just over 3 months out and sometimes I feel like I didn't even have RNY. Tonight I ate around 5-6 oz of halibut and I was satisfied but not full. I also have never experienced any vomiting or issues with eating too fast or not chewing my food well enough. It usually only takes me about 10 minutes to eat an entire Boca veggie patty. I'm concerned that my stoma is too big or my pouch is already stretched and that I won't be able to maintain my weight loss. 4oz of food a sitting doesn't seem to fill me anymore. Should I call my surgeon and let him know my concerns or have others felt this way?
I follow my food plan to a tee, don't drink for 30-45 minutes after eating, and always eat my protein first. I take in about 700-900 calories a day but really get this in with 3 meals a day and 1-2 snacks. Is this feeling normal?

Your nerves may not have healed completely and that is why you don't feel full but for me the point isn't to feel stuffed, it is to be able to be satisfied with a small amount of food.  

You say you are following your food plan to a tee.  Let me ask you something.  Think about the last time you were on a diet.  Do you remember ever feeling satisfied with that amount of food you were allowed?  Or were you like me, always hungry, always wanted more, counting the minutes until the next meal?  The reason I know I've had surgery is because for the first time in my life enough is enough.

You know what's funny ?? I can get SOOOOOO much more full now (4 months out) than I would've on the same exact amount of food at say, 2 months out.  And I had never even heard about (or thought about) nerves being cut during surgery (which makes COMPLETE sense !!), so I also had thought maybe my pouch was too big. Until I had the endoscopy thing done (after surgery to make sure everything is cool inside) where they show you what it looks like inside (after drinking barium), and my pouch was the same size as the technicians thumb !!!  But seriously, you are going to get fuller much quicker very shortly ;)  I was also so concerned with being able to chew enough, like I had heard, but honestly, as of now.... I chew like I always did in the past (still swallowing chunks of unchewed portions) and have not had any problems yet (I'm probably jinxing myself lol)

Are you are aware that, because what we eat no longer encounters the normal stomach gastric juices, that our body relies more on us chewing (and the action of the saliva) to break the food down?  If you don't chew it well enough, it is much harder for the body to digest and can contribute to constipation.  Just because it doesn't make you sick not to chew thoroughly, the are other consequences to swallowing chunks of unchewed food.

Lora

Yikes, I didn't know that !!  I thought the only negative effect was the food getting stuck. Thanks for the info Lora !

*TMI alert** What Lora said and might I add that if it causes you constipation and you have to use a laxative to go, looking down into the toilet to see undigested meat (looks like it did on the plate) is very freaky!!! Seriously if it looks like that did our body get anything from it? or was it wasted space that could of held well chewed protein our body had a chance of absorbing?

lol that's crazy !!

I wasn't aware of this. Sometimes I get a tummy aches or a little nauseas. Maybe it's because I'm not chewing my food. Thanks so much for this insight.

I worry about this too, I think we had surgery the same week and I'm worried that I am ALWAYS hungry and NEVER feel full. I can easily eat 5-6 oz of food with no discomfort as well and have been on a 3 week weight loss stall,,oh and I don't dump either. I have an ulcer so I do feel burning pain with that with certain foods. I wonder if I've stretched my stoma too. :(

5-6oz of weighed or measured food? 5 oz of steak is far denser than 5 oz of yogurt that slides through.

You shouldn't always be hungry though unless it's head hunger, that is far different than physical hunger and takes brain work. They operated on our guts not our heads. After a year of therapy my first year post op I can tell the difference and rarely if ever do I have physical hunger, cravings yes, hunger not very often, and never if I eat by the clock instead of body signals.

Full is also different after surgery. Many of us equate full with that feeling we had after a plate or two at thanksgiving, that isn't full that is stuffed. You don't want to feel that now. Satisfied is the new full.

I have heard from others with ulcers who stated they felt "hungry" but once the ulcer was healed they didn't, I don't have data to back it up but my thought would be perhaps the body is interpretating the pain as the hunger feeling?