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I wish I had your NUT. Perhaps he/she would like to see you be able to take in the vits/minerals/nutrients from that much food, yet is also expecting you to exercise off 500 cals of it daily?
I am one of the (apparently few) VSG peeps who at 2.5 months out can happily taken down 1200 calories a day with no problem. I have lost 55 lbs, but it is really slowing down, and I am scared that I am going to stop losing and fail. I feel like I can't eat much in one sitting, but I can still eat often, and I am hungry to do so. I haven't incorporated exercise as well as I should. I feel like I'm at a crossroads here and I'm either going to make some changes and succeed, or, well, not.
Basically if I was like you and "fine with 600-800 cals a day", I would stick with it.
I am one of the (apparently few) VSG peeps who at 2.5 months out can happily taken down 1200 calories a day with no problem. I have lost 55 lbs, but it is really slowing down, and I am scared that I am going to stop losing and fail. I feel like I can't eat much in one sitting, but I can still eat often, and I am hungry to do so. I haven't incorporated exercise as well as I should. I feel like I'm at a crossroads here and I'm either going to make some changes and succeed, or, well, not.
Basically if I was like you and "fine with 600-800 cals a day", I would stick with it.
Pre-op Month: -26lbs Month 1: -14lbs Month 2: -9lbs Month 3: -8lbs
If you're eating 1,200 calories how many carbs are you getting daily?
My weight loss slowed down at 6 months post-op. I reviewed what I was eating and realized the bulk of my protein was coming from soft sources like protein shakes, cheese, Greek yogurt, beans.
I changed to dense protein, mainly tender beef and seafood, and saw my weight loss resume and felt a lot of restriction. Dense protein fills you up with a small amount and keeps you full longer.
Limiting my carbs to less than 40 grams per day was also instrumental for my continued weight loss. When my carbs got too high my weight loss slowed.
My weight loss slowed down at 6 months post-op. I reviewed what I was eating and realized the bulk of my protein was coming from soft sources like protein shakes, cheese, Greek yogurt, beans.
I changed to dense protein, mainly tender beef and seafood, and saw my weight loss resume and felt a lot of restriction. Dense protein fills you up with a small amount and keeps you full longer.
Limiting my carbs to less than 40 grams per day was also instrumental for my continued weight loss. When my carbs got too high my weight loss slowed.
That is a really good point, thanks so much for your response. Sometimes I have a good day and keep carbs at 40. Sometimes its a bad day and they are 100 or 120. I agree with you, I think I need to redouble my efforts at planning real MEAT for each of my meals, and making sure there is enough to bring for lunch after the family is fed.
Honestly -- my husband does all the cooking! Which is sometimes an issue. He's very supportive, but it kind of sucks that so much of the responsibility falls to him for what I'M doing. It's not fair, but that is just how our family works. We had our second baby in July, I am a self employed financial planner, and he is a letter carrier -- so he is the one who had the 9 months of paid parental leave (Canada). So he is the one at home with the kids, grocery shopping and cooking, while I was back at work 5 weeks after having the baby.
Anyways -- thanks. It's kind of amazing how quickly some of the basics can seem to get away on you when you fall off on your planning a little.
Honestly -- my husband does all the cooking! Which is sometimes an issue. He's very supportive, but it kind of sucks that so much of the responsibility falls to him for what I'M doing. It's not fair, but that is just how our family works. We had our second baby in July, I am a self employed financial planner, and he is a letter carrier -- so he is the one who had the 9 months of paid parental leave (Canada). So he is the one at home with the kids, grocery shopping and cooking, while I was back at work 5 weeks after having the baby.
Anyways -- thanks. It's kind of amazing how quickly some of the basics can seem to get away on you when you fall off on your planning a little.
Pre-op Month: -26lbs Month 1: -14lbs Month 2: -9lbs Month 3: -8lbs
"Planning", you hit the nail on the head.
Most of the time my meals are planned in advance. I pack a lunch or know what my lunch option will be if I'm eating out. I keep high protein snacks in my office should I get hungry on a long work day so that I will not be tempted by available carbs.
For me, losing the weight and maintaining the weight loss required planning.
Most of the time my meals are planned in advance. I pack a lunch or know what my lunch option will be if I'm eating out. I keep high protein snacks in my office should I get hungry on a long work day so that I will not be tempted by available carbs.
For me, losing the weight and maintaining the weight loss required planning.
Well, I'm 7 weeks out too! I don't have the answer or a NUT to confuse me or a dog in this fight, I only have my surgeon and his; way too brief of a plan. I lost 58 lbs during the last 4.5 months of my 6 month pre surgery insurance class...eating 1,200 calories a day, so I know I could lose weight at that level. Now, I am losing at about the same rate, for the short time I have in post surgery, eating 580-675 calories a day and the same activity level. I would have thought more loss for half the calories, maybe that average will move up over time I have no idea I think its too early for me to know but it seems the surgery itself has changed things in this area...
I never had a stall in that 4.5 months, I had a 2.5 week complete losing stall already post surgery. I assumed some of it was because I had been losing so well pre surgery but on this site folks say the body is adjusting, LOL, I need more info than that to accept that, until then, I don't really know. (compared to those going from 2,500 calories one day and then down to 600 calories almost overnight, that person will have rapid weight loss for a while) Anyway, 7 weeks out, is not enough experience to know but there is no way I would choose to move up 1,200 calories a day, until I'm pretty much done with the losing phase, unless my surgeon or PCP convinces me too. (for health reasons)
I never had a stall in that 4.5 months, I had a 2.5 week complete losing stall already post surgery. I assumed some of it was because I had been losing so well pre surgery but on this site folks say the body is adjusting, LOL, I need more info than that to accept that, until then, I don't really know. (compared to those going from 2,500 calories one day and then down to 600 calories almost overnight, that person will have rapid weight loss for a while) Anyway, 7 weeks out, is not enough experience to know but there is no way I would choose to move up 1,200 calories a day, until I'm pretty much done with the losing phase, unless my surgeon or PCP convinces me too. (for health reasons)
HW: 425 SW: 337 CW: 262 GW: 217 (surgeon)
Pre-surgery loss; 88 lbs (mostly in my required 6 month insurance class)
Pre-surgery loss; 88 lbs (mostly in my required 6 month insurance class)
I've aimed to average 1000-1200 daily since about a month out. Sometimes it's 800. Sometimes it's 1500 or rarely even a little more if there is a special weekend or something. I exercise, but not like a fiend, and haven't at all because the kittens chewed my Wii sensor connector and I've been too sorry to get one. I don't count carbs but a quick Googling suggests I probably have (my best guess) average 75 a day most days but on a rare day might even have well over 100 g carb. I am happy with my rate of loss, feel great, have never 'stalled' but once for about 2 weeks, and am still losing.
If you were fine with 6-800c a day, go ahead. If you find yourself thinking about food way too often, or you 'stall" all the time, I think upping the calorie count is fine. But if you are lethargic, tired, and draggy, it's my opinion you probably really need the extra food!
If you were fine with 6-800c a day, go ahead. If you find yourself thinking about food way too often, or you 'stall" all the time, I think upping the calorie count is fine. But if you are lethargic, tired, and draggy, it's my opinion you probably really need the extra food!
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