Have any of you done this calculation?  This is to calculate how many calories you need to eat daily to maintain your body weight at your level of activity.  There are online calculators that can do this for you, but I actually went to the underlying formula and calculated it for myself.

It seems crazy--it says I should be eating 1850 calories per day to maintain my current body weight at my current level of activity.   Of course, my perception has been colored by a whole year of eating very small amounts of food, but I can't even fathom how I could eat that much.  Are there any studies that analyze this formula with relation to WLS patients?  Since our innards have been rearranged, I wonder how that might change the formula.  Especially considering we were probably very efficient processors of food to start with.

Just wondering...

Awesome Renae!!  

I haven't lost an ounce since I started my new job but i've lost 1 1/2 inches in the chest and 2 inches in my waist and 2 inches in my hips so i'm pretty stoked about that.  I believe I have probably lost fat but have been gaining muscle.  I've managed to not gain any weight which is fine by me.  I'm ready to drop a few lbs again though.  ;)

 Thanks so much!

 I too was looking for a specific support group for sleeve gastrectomies but didn't find one in the twin cities area.   So I decided to go to a coffee group that meets every Saturday morning rotating between 2 sites.  This has been most beneficial to me, and I did find some fellow 'sleevers' there.   The posting was ' support coffee group south of the river-twin cities '    Perhaps you could set on up there to meet and announce it on the forum.    We alternate between a Panera and a Caribou shops.   Just set a time and place and see what happens.   We meet everyweek, sometimes there are a bunch and sometimes just a few.  Couldn't hurt to try, we've all had WLS (weight loss surgery) of some kind or another.