Good afternoon, I just had a surgery, a partial gastrectomy and I'm finding it difficult to eat small portions more often, I tend to get full up quickly meals. Did anybody experience this? Do you have any suggestions?
Eating is a challenge after a partial gastrectomy. I wrote a Blog which you might find helpful- you can read it by clicking on my name. I found high protein, high calorie foods was important as I lost weight before the op. It does get easier as your new ‘baby’ tummy gets bigger.
I didn’t drink and eat at the same time as fluids fill you up! I ate foods like coconut porridge with yoghurt for breakfast, avocado and poached egg , fish pie, cottage pie …. I used my Fitbit to count calories and found I gradually built it up.
I was told by the dietician to have pureed food the first 2 weeks after surgery then from week 3 to week 6 anything I can mash with a fork thereafter, snacks, sandwiches, nuts...Is this about right?
Yes it’s soft foods for the first six weeks so I ate things like porridge, avocado and eggs , fish pie, baked potato…
A Fitbit measures your exercise - you wear it on your wrist. There’s an App on your phone and you can enter the food you eat. I used it to count the calories to make sure I was having enough as I needed to put on weight! It helped me as I couldn’t eat large portions so I needed to pack protein and calories into what I did eat..The opposite of trying to lose weight.! There will be an App to measure calories so you could do it that way..
After 6 weeks I gradually started to eat more normally!
It does get easier!
Jac
Life is what happens when you are making other plans!
There are lots of Apps that count calories, they are for you to lose weight but you can use it to count the calories you eat. I found it useful because I worked out how many I was having in a day - as I was eating such small amounts. Hope that helps!
Jac
Life is what happens when you are making other plans!
