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I was told 600-800 in the losing stage and 800-1000 once you achieve goal and want to maintain. That is in general but it also depends on you as and individual. For example it should be higher if you are very active. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using BariatricPal mobile app

This is part funny story part cautionary tale. I, like many post-oppers, intended to be super strict with my diet and never even look twice at my old bad habit foods. I kept the house clear of all bad foods and had gone through the pre-op diet and the many stages of post-op eating. My fiancee (now husband) stood with me through it all and for a person who loves his food and never gains weight (lucky!!!) He was suprisingly supportive of the lack of food in the house. So when he asked me to pick up pizza after all this time of patient support, I agreed, not even suspecting what was about to happen. The thing about pizza is that it smells soooo good! So I thought I would just take a look. Well the thing about that is, it looks good too. I was now in the solid food phase of my diet and I considered that a piece of sausage couldn't hurt. It was so good that I then considered that a bite wouldn't hurt if I chewed it well. Like any addict , a little is never enough. This evolved into 3 large bites of pizza, the first bready item post surgery. Now all of this has taken place in the car...hiding my shame from my fiancee. I walk in, still finishing my last bite, and then it happened. As you may know, bread tends to swell. At first I was full, then I was uncomfortably full, then I was suddenly convinced that my stomach was going to explode and I was going to die! My fiancee wavered between concern and scolding. I had yet to over-eat severely, so if you have you understand the anguish. If you have yet to over eat then take my word for it....don't! So here I am groaning about pizza and dying and asking him to shoot me to put me out of my misery when suddenly I let out the loudest burp ever and the contents of my stomach settled a bit. I was still uncomfortably full but no longer in the throes of death. So there I am, sprawled on the couch completely silent and a little shocked with the echo of the atomic bomb of burps still ringing around me. My fiancee just looks at me and laughs uncontrollably. So the moral of the story is this: over-eating is never worth it even though it smells like it will be! Also, laughing at a post-opper who has over eaten may land you eating your pizza outside

I, like many of you, have not been perfect in my post-op life. I love slider foods! I hate excercise! I check the scale too often, get frustrated, and then don't check it nearly enough! I have tried to put on clothes only to find they don't fit like they used to! And when I find that I am failing I feel like I can't find someone who understands. We made a choice to change our lives and sometimes we forget it is a complete lifestyle change! It is hard to change your whole life! Sometimes we start going back to "normal", eating the carbs and leaving the protein, treating ourselves to cheat days. We forget that there is a new normal. The new normal is hard and it can be scary! But I am here to tell you that you can do it! You stuck to the program to get the surgery because you knew you had to do it for your health, for your well-being, for your life. This is the same. Right now you are only a few pounds away! Don't be defeated now! If you start now you are that much closer to your goal than if you don't change course! I believe you can do it. You don't have to give up! We all slip up. We all gain. What is most important, though, is that we can all fix our mistakes. Be honest with yourself, what can you change? Why are you sabotaging? Are you willing to change in order to feel better? It is hard to start, but once you do you will feel so much better. You will find more energy than you have now. It will get easier! You can stick to it and be successful! There are people who understand you! I am sorry that you are struggling, but I KNOW that you can overcome it! Yes, you CAN!

I really never thought it would bother me THIS much but here I am crying because 2 years post op I have gained 10 pounds and can't seem to lose it. I didn't have as big of a weight loss goal as others I have talked to, I had my gastric sleeve done to ward off a lot of weight related health issues I was in the early stages of so my minimum goal total to lose was only 80 pounds. Maybe that is why the 10 pound gain is so hurtful? I'm almost too ashamed to even go back for my weigh-in. I have clothes that don't fit from last summer and it is like being pre-op all over again. My biggest hope for post-op life was to never feel like that ever again! My confidence has just fallen flat and I feel like a failure even though I was warned about this happening post-op. I know there are methods to fix this, that it happens, and that I can eventually get back on track if i stick with it, but not fitting into the clothes hurts, feeling like I did before hurts and I feel like no one in my life truly understands that. Maybe some of you do?