Re: I can really eat whatever I want

[Guest guest]

Hi Nan;

Pre-op I would eat a soup bowl filled with fried rice and BBQ'ed pork and then half a bag of Kisses and then some kind of chips or a sandwich and by then it was dinner time and I would eat lets say 2 large pork chops, a large baked potato, or some kind of noodle mix a mixed veggie with butter, more chocolate and then maybe another bowl of fried rice before bed. I could eat a whole large NY steak and baked potatoe a couple of hot rolls and some kind of veggie. I could and would eat a plate of spaghetti with clam sauce, French bread covered with butter maybe a salad and then something again before I went to bed.

Now I am again able to eat fried rice, (took me about 2 years to be able to eat rice again) it is very filling to me but I eat a much smaller bowl, I can actually eat quite a bit now that I am 27 months out but I absorb so little of it that the surgery does what it is supposed to do and if I eat that one bit to much my tummy will return it to me as if to say, "You know better, let me remind you!"

I still eat about every 3-4 hours when I am hanging around the house but when I was at the doctors on Thurs for some test I was NPO from midnight on and did not eat until 1:30pm the next day and other than I was in pain from not taking my meds I was fine, I knew I was ready to eat but it wasn't anything that mad me feel bad. I know when I am out shopping or driving that if I don't eat I am fine but I do get thristy.

Hope this helps.

Huggles,

Tiger