Why am I able to eat n feel no discomfort 3 weeks post op??

It's completely normal to have moments of emotional eating and concern about your restriction. At four years post-op, your stomach has naturally stretched some, which is expected. Early on, your sleeve was swollen, making restriction more noticeable, but as time passes, your body adapts.
Being able to eat 5 oz without discomfort isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Many VSG patients can comfortably eat that amount by this stage, especially if the food is soft or high in protein (like meat and cheese). The lack of pain doesn’t mean your sleeve isn’t working—it just means your body has adjusted.
That said, if you're consistently eating larger portions and feeling hungry more often, it could be helpful to assess your habits as:
Are you eating slower? Eating too fast can allow more food before satiety kicks in.Are you focusing on dense protein first? This helps with fullness.Are you drinking with meals? This can push food through faster, allowing more intake.Are you experiencing actual hunger or head hunger? Emotional eating can sneak up, especially during stressful times.If you're worried about losing restriction completely, try resetting by sticking to smaller portions, eating mindfully, and incorporating more solid proteins. If you still feel concerned, a follow-up with your bariatric team or a barium swallow test could confirm whether your sleeve has stretched significantly. But based on what you’ve described, it sounds like your body is just adjusting over time, which is completely normal.

Hello, I hope you are well. Not feeling restriction results from adaptation. It seems like you are eating larger amounts of food than adviced and your stomach is adapting to larger volumes. I would recommend you approach your bariatric team so you can get nutritional and psychological follow up, so you can benefit from your surgery to full extent.

There are several reasons why some patients have more or less restriction when starting with solid food after a sleeve gastrectomy: Calibration bougie size, a larger size equals more capacity in the sleeved stomach. inflammation varies from patient to patient some patients have a lot inflammation which could even prevent them from tolerating solid food even up to a couple of months after surgery, if the inflammation is minimal this will usually allow a person to tolerate more with out pain. The end result specially after 6 months of continuous weight loss and restriction not loosing "to much" restriction over the following years a key for the sleeve to work properly.
AMG