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There is likely going to be a bit of a learning curve to figure out what your maintenance calories are. If you track your food intake, this process can be a little easier. Step one: figure out what your average daily intake is (by tracking calories) and weigh yourself regularly (to determine how this intake amount affects ur weight) Step two: if you are gaining or losing over a specific period of time, drop or add some cals, monitor for a while. Rinse and repeat until u find ur sweet spot. As u get further out and your activity levels change, you may need to reevaluate again and again. It took me 2-3 months to figure out my maintenance calories, and i lost a further 10+ lbs in the process. Since then i’ve been happily maintaining my current weight for over 2 years. I decrease cals when I exercise less and increase when there is more. Its an ongoing thing. Good luck! ❤️ P..S. Full disclosure: i don’t always eat healthily, but i generally always stay within my calorie range (on average).

Pre-op: 0 lbs 2wk pre-op liquid diet: 12 lbs 1st month post op: 21 lbs 2nd month post op: 17 lbs ….after that it was about 10 lbs per month until goal (7 months post op)

So in Feb ‘22 you will be 13 months post op. i had my TT at 13 months post op too, but I was already at goal (well, technically below goal) at the time. Though I did schedule it months before (at 7 months post op) i *think* any loose skin you encounter after the tummy tuck will be minimal (if at all) as i would assume you will be closer to goal by then? What did your surgeon say? P.S. I’m 2 years post TT now and my tum is still lovely, lol. But my weight has been pretty stable since though… Good luck, and can’t wait to see ur results (if u choose to share, that is)! ❤️

Ok, i wanna play too. To the OP: WE DO NOT CARE. I’m gonna go for that walk now

+1 to the above responses. To your question: At 5 weeks, I was at about 300-400 per day At goal (7 months), was at 700-800 per day 1-2 years post, doing 2000+ per day (LOTSA exercise) Today at 3 years post, at about 1800 per day (moderate exercise) But that’s just me. If you are losing, it’s probably safe to assume your calorie level is just about right for YOU. No need to fix what ain’t broke, I’d figure. Good Luck! ❤️

Today starts a 3 day long weekend of LOTSA FOOD, as its the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. I had planned to just wait until tonight's dinner party to eat, but I'm kinda hungry now so....salad it is to tie me over till then. Romaine, carrots, cucumber, feta, bacon, & some canned tuna (with mayo, seafood sauce and spices): 378 calories. Aiming to eat just enough of this to satisfy me as I wanna same room for the food goodness-es tonite, lol. We'll see how it goes!

I dunno, its weird...i still love food, but its not so much about actually eating it anymore...i really just enjoy cooking it, plating it, planning to cook it, looking at pictures of it, smelling it, watching others eat it. And - don't judge me - I absolutely LOOOOOVE reading restaurant menus in their entirety. I probably spend more time perusing the menu than I do actually eating. Not sure if this is some weird mental issue, but i seem to be functioning well in society so its all good. LOLOLOLzzzzzzz.

1 night in the hospital for me. Went in at 9am Wed morning, and left at 2pm Thur afternoon. I probably would have been fine to go back to work in a week (if it was a desk job). I remember getting super tired really easily with any exertion so anything more than sitting at a desk would have wiped me out. Good Luck! ❤️

So i did JUST say i would cut down on eating cookies, but that doesn’t mean I can stop baking them! I find I am a late-night-boredom baker and here is a batch of ginger snap cookies that I whipped up last night due to the aforementioned boredom. I haven’t eaten any (yet?) but if I did, one would be 100 calories.

Coconut shrimp…mmmm…yummmmm

Operation Try-Not-to-Eat-So-Much-Crap: Day One. Gonna try to cut down on the alcohol, cookies and popcorn I’ve apparently been consuming quire a bit of late. Just to see if I can! Today’s salad lunch: 238 calories. Still in the middle of eating it, and will likely finish all of it by the time the day is over. There is a bunch or romaine leaves under all those toppings, swearies, lol

Sittin’ on the porch just chillin’ with my feet up. Just had to take a pic at ALL THE EXTRA ROOM i have in my rain boots since losing the weight ….I remember being so bummed that I couldn’t get my giant calves to fit into tall boots…now i’ve got room to spare! *high fives self*

Yes, fun…but definitely NOT for weight loss phase!

Yeah...I tried to find the feature in the mobile version, but it only does it for max 7 days. The desktop version does charts for 7, 30, 90, 180 days and 1 yr. Oh, and it also does export (to .CSV format) for whatever duration you want.

I'm 3 years out, and over 2 years in maintenance. Like some above, I weigh myself every morning (to make sure i'm not leaning to far above or below my happy weight range); I track everything I eat (to keep eye on caloric intake), get some exercise in (run min 5K 2-3 times a week, plus other random activities here and there: dancing, hiking, swimming). I've figured out that at my current activity level, i can maintain my current weight at around 1800 cals a day. Other random things I do that I *think* contribute to MY maintenance (or could just be habit now and may not actually be making a lick of difference, lol): I try to keep bread, rice, pasta intake low. I don't completely avoid them, but they don't have main billing in my diet, or even supporting cast. More like nameless extras with non-speaking roles, lol I make it a point to never eat to full. I may not always succeed, but I try. I wear tight pants. Don't laugh, but having tight pants on when I go out for dinner helps to ensure that I won't overeat to over-fullness, when it's easier to do so cuz I'm just sitting around a table for hours with food, you know? I always share desserts (or get a mini/micro one) cuz I know dessert is my downfall. I don't eat before noon if I can help it. If my weight goes above my happy weight range, I cut some calories until I until I'm at the bottom of said range (luckily this hasn't happened in over a year...knock on wood) I do my running in the morning so its done and i don't get a chance to procrastinate throughout the day. That's all i can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there are a whole bunch of other things I do....

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Ha, I had a better offer...lololozzzzz

I think you should consider Professional Baker as an option. I'd definitely be a repeat customer.

Lolololzzzzz. It's EXACTLY like dinner roulette!!! I'm totally going to incorporate that term into my vocabulary 😂

Like others said, give it some time, you are still very early on and things will settle to a NEW normal. Water: i had pobs the first week with water…tasted so metallic to me. Found that in could stomach it if it was hot/very warm. Then a few weeks later, could only stomach it if it was ice cold. Now i can drink all kinds if temperatures. Further, the first couple weeks i could only get down tiny sips . Then suddenly I was able to gulp down lots (found this out by mistake when i was super thirsty and didn’t think to sip). Gurgling: I’m one of the ones that this still happens to years out (ill be 3 years end of this month). Not as often and loud as before, but still. It sounds like i have a swamp thing living in there. Hang in there, a year from now you can laugh at urself looking fab in a bikini. Good Luck! ❤️

Fam went to Korean BBQ (without me!) but they brought back some Banchan for me (traditional Korean side dishes), which, honestly, is my fave part of Korean BBQ anyway! Clockwise from top: Seasoned black beans, spicy marinated dried cuttlefish, spicy anchovies & peanuts, and radish kimchi. About 1.5-2 tablespoons of each. Total for plate: 170 calories. Ate it all.

Ok,I really just pulled up the logs for my own curiosity. That and I'm bored. For funsies, here are my food logs for the first 7 days of my first AI vacay post op (@10 months, and in maintenance). Again, it is probably highly inaccurate as I was just guessing what was in the food and tried to pick the closest match from the MFP database. Also, all those mojitos were actually vodka sodas...i think!! Looking it over I guess I ate more crap than I remembered! Averaged about 2200 cals a day.

Tonite's dinner: Mango salad w/ cashews, mint and ginger syrup AND a teacup filled with Massaman Chicken Curry: ate all 430 calories worth of it.