Long work hours need energy
I had a band put in a year and three months ago. Things went well and I lost about 50 pounds total.
I am a male CPA that works long hours. It is not unusual for my day to start at 6:15 am and end after 10:00pm. I have walked consistently for the last ten years. Since the surgery I have averaged a little over 3 miles per day (I am a numbers geek and track it).
The time on my days above is what I did before the surgery. It also started up again in August of this year when my colleagues "requested" I start pulling my load again.
Here is the trouble. My doctors and nutritionists have emphasised protein and at their design I am eating 90 to 100 grams per day. The problem is two fold. First, I need to think. Protein does not seem to help. It is only when I start to consume carbs do I start to function correctly and get work out accurately and efficiently (that is the short story). Second problem is that the doc want me to eat 1000 calories per day. I was able to cut back to about 1,400 calories a day before I really started working again. But, there is just not enough energy at 1,400 let alone 1,000 calories. I will not survive that economically.
Since I started working in August (and eating more to support the hours(another long story)) my weight has begun to climb and climb significantly.
One more thing: The diet the docs have me on is actually very close to the Atkins diet: lots of protein, some limited vegtables and fruit. That diet before the surgery had some success, but I could never concentrate on my work and that always seemed to cause its failure. I now see two studies out there that say if you don't get a constant supply of glucose (read that carbs) subjects stopped being able to problem solve on a computer and subjects became very forgetful. Translated, that is a lot of the issues I have in not being able to think.
Talking with the surgeon this afternoon, he told me he had peformed hundreds of procedures and some just fail. When I pressed him and asked him if I could find some male CPA's or Attorneys to talk to who have been successful to see what they do (presuming they work like me and everyone in my region seems to), he told me he had no idea what his patients did for a living and suggested I attend support groups.
So, is anyone out there? Can someone tell me how they eat 1,000 calories a day, work 10 to 12 hours or more, workout 1 hour and be able to act and think coherently and function like a professional on 1,000 calories per day?
Thanks.
