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How many calories do you eat in a day? Most WLS people find they have to stick to about 800 calories per day in order to lose weight at a good pace. Here are a few other suggestions to help:
When you feel hungry and it's not mealtime or snacktime, drink a glass of water (or other low calorie beverage). This will help you naturally eat less. Also, after surgery you will need to drink a lot of fluids, so this is good practice. Currently, your stomach holds some fluid in reserve which your body can draw on when needed. Surgery removes that portion of the stomach, so you will need to drink fluids more often to stay hydrated.
Don't drink with meals. Drinking with meals causes the stomach to empty more quickly, so you will feel hungry sooner. This is true even for people who haven't had surgery, but you will need to stop this after surgery.
Record everything you eat. Popular apps for this include myfitnesspal.com and cronometer.com. Personally, I recommend cronometer. Analysing what you eat will help you identify small changes that you can make that will help you lose weight without feeling deprived. If you bring detailed records of what you eat to your dietitian, he or she will probably have great suggestions for you.
If you make a mistake, start fresh with the next meal. Don't wait for the next day.
If you're not a breakfast person, you don't need to eat it. Personally, I'm not hungry early in the morning, and if I do eat breakfast, it seems to "wake up" my stomach and then I find it more difficult to watch what I eat. Instead, I skip breakfast and try to get in 1.5 litres of fluid before I eat anything. This gives me a good head start on my fluids for the day, and allows me to save some calories for later in the day, when I do get hungry.
Hello Anyone,
I have done well losing weight since October last year. I am just 2 stone out from my perfect target weight which will be 100% excess weight loss but weight is not coming off.
These last 4 weeks it has gone down 2lbs then up 2lbs then down and this week up again. Any hints and tips would so be appreciated.
The dietician states that this is due to the metabolic cells adjusting as they now require less calories to survive following in essence, a year of starvation. Rather than the physics I just want to get back to weight loss. Any ideas?
I usually hit over 60 grams of protein daily so what am I doing or not doing?
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what does a days menu look like for you? Many of us have to eat 600-800 caps a day to lose.
The body is smart. It knows that it was starved and it is fighting to get its weight back. It was so easy at first, but now I have to fight harder every year. To lose the rest of the weight, you will have to eat less calories than you are burning. I can do that when I make up my mind and you can too.
Protein is just one part of the equation. You need to consider how many carbs, how many grams of fat, how many calories, how much water, and how much exercise you are getting.
MyFitnessPal is an excellent app that many of us use to know exactly what we are eating. Daily weighing is also essential to me.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Right now, you are expending as many calories as you are taking in. You'll need to take in fewer calories if you want to drop some more weight.
Do you weigh your food, and track every bite? That's the only way to be certain how much you're taking in. Cut back a little, be consistent, and you will lose more.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
Hello Anyone,
I have done well losing weight since October last year. I am just 2 stone out from my perfect target weight which will be 100% excess weight loss but weight is not coming off.
These last 4 weeks it has gone down 2lbs then up 2lbs then down and this week up again. Any hints and tips would so be appreciated.
The dietician states that this is due to the metabolic cells adjusting as they now require less calories to survive following in essence, a year of starvation. Rather than the physics I just want to get back to weight loss. Any ideas?
I usually hit over 60 grams of protein daily so what am I doing or not doing?
?
I just came back from shopping and got so depressed about how fat I got again that I signed on here for the first time in years. I'll too be 8 yrs in March and I gained back 62 lbs. To be totally honest, I have averaged about a 10 lb gain each year so it wasn't due to an injury or anything. Though I did injure my ankle last summer (2018) and haven't been able to exercise regularly since. I finally had surgery this past August to repair a torn Achilles. I'm still healing so I still can't workout but I need to get my eating under control again! Thanks for posting and I hope we both can get back on track!
4' 11" HW 218 SW 214 Original Goal of 125 in 8.5 mos Lowest Weight 119 CW 133 Trying to get back in the 122-128 range
No advice. I am in a very similar boat. 8 years out-- had lost all EWL. Heart condition developed last March and one of the drugs to manage it has rapid weight gain as a side effect. Between that and not exercising gained 60 pounds with no end in sight and I need to figure out a way to get a handle on this. I know what I need to do for sure- back to basics and get exercising again. If you check my blog posts somewhere in there I wrote up what the back to basics part means in detail. Now it is a matter of implementing it. Will be asking the cardiologist also if there might be a drug alternative without the rapid weight gain part for me as well.
Surgeon: Chengelis Surgery on 12/19/2011 A little less carb eating compared to my weight loss phase loose sleever here!
1Mo: -21 2Mo: -16 3Mo: -12 4MO - 13 5MO: -11 6MO: -10 7MO: -10.3 8MO: -6 Goal in 8 months 4 days!! 6' 2'' EWL 103% Starting size 28 or 4x (tight) now size 12 or large, shoe size 12 w to 10.5 150+ pounds lost
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Every time you feel hungry and it's not mealtime, drink a glass of water. That will probably keep the hunger pangs away for at least a half hour. Plus, it's great practice for after surgery, when you will need to get in lots of fluids.
I assume you're allowed diet jello. It only fills you up for a short time, but it feels like you're eating something and gives you something to do.
So glad to be of help!
One more tip: Start weighing or measuring everything you eat. We humans are very unreliable at "eyeballing" portions, so this will help keep you from overeating. This is especially important after surgery, because you don't want to overfill your stomach. I even weigh things that are ultra-low in calories, like raw veggies, not to control the number of calories, but so that I don't eat too much at once and feel uncomfortable. Over time I have learned how much it takes of different foods to satisfy me, which is a big help in planning.
I recommend getting a scale so you don't have to constantly wash measuring cups. It will seem like a big chore at first, but it gets easier as it becomes a habit. For example, if I'm making something with several ingredients, I first put the bowl on the scale and zero it. Then I add the second ingredient until I've got the right weight. Then I zero the scale again. Next I add the second ingredient, and so on.
