monabroad

Personally, I think the caloric intake is too high. I had my surgery on 7/14/16. Stage 3 -- days 3-14 after surgery -- I was only allowed 1-2 oz o f mushy, soft, high Protein food (no red meat). Stage 4 -- days 15-30 after surgery-- I'm eating 2-3 oz regular textured high protein meals and I can add 1-2 Tblspoons of soft canned fruits in Water or bananas and/or 1/2 high Fiber cereals. In Stage 5 -- at 1 month -- I can eat 3-4 oz regular textured high protein meals and red meat is allowed plus lettuce w/low cal dressing or soft non-starchy vegetables. Throughout these stages, I'm must include 40 total grams per day by drink protein. The drink protein is usually between 160-210 calories. But since I'm in Stage 4, I'm only getting 300-400 calories with regular food, plus the drink protein. I'm one of those people losing about a pound a day. And to be honest, I'm looking at the future stages, and I don't see that I'll really ever get much above 800 calories. I'm pretty happy as I feel good and energetic, especially when I make sure I'm getting 7-8 hours of sleep. I do track my food intake and I weigh everything so far, and I eat 3 meals per day (no Snacks at this point). The only exercise I'm doing at this point is walking about 30 minutes per day. But I will start swimming as soon as the rain stops. Everyone that worked with me has made it clear that this sleeve is a tool, not magic. If I were you, I'd talk to your nutritionist again and talk about the caloric intake.

Higher -- I'm the same way. I feel great. I had my surgery on 7/14, and had a weigh-in on 7/18, and I'd lost 6 lbs (honestly, I thought it would be more because I essentially went 2 days without eating...but I heard there's an after-surgery Water gain -- don't know, but I did drink a lot of water. My surgery took place late in the evening, but the next morning I hopped (carefully) out of bed and took 2 turns around my unit. Later that day, I did 10 more laps twice. My pain was low -- they were supposed to give me a prescription for pain meds, but they didn't. Didn't matter -- since they took me off the iV, I've only taken Tylenol twice. I peed clear right from the start, and have had regular (almost daily) bowel movements. I feel energetic and I walk every day for at least 30 minutes (nothing else). My incisions are almost healed and only one (on the left side) even twinges in the least. I don't know -- I'm the same..is it going to well? The worst problems I've had are the speed of eating. Twice, I've not chewed my food well enough and/or ate too fast, which resulting in promptly tossing my Cookies. I also tried eyeballing portion size and that's a bad habit. Finally bought myself a little scale and I obsessively weigh everything I'm eating. By doing that I feel better (in my head!! and probably in my body too). The other thing that I've done for myself is go back to the SparkPeople website and continue tracking my food intake. It helps keep me grounded - and is how I lost 25 lbs before the surgery.