After my surgery was good. It was nice to eat again. I could eat only soft foods for about 3 weeks for me. Then could eat more hardy foods. That changed for me after starting up 4 more chemotherapy treatments to make sure cancer was gone. Now that treatments are done. Getting back appetite. Still can only eat smaller meals get full fast. Being that they had to use part of my stomach to make new esophagus. Also doesn’t work like my esophagus did. Doesn’t have the muscle to help food go down as your regular esophagus does. Doctor said probably won’t work like normal esophagus. But I can eat pretty much everything. Just not as much and much slower eating. But everyone is different. Hope this helps.