Calories Post-Op - week 2

[miss679 39]

Hi everyone!

Just curious - have any of you been given a guideline in terms of calories per day post-op? For instance, I know in my first week post-op I wasn't consuming many calories because of the liquid diet. Now I'm onto week 2/stage 2 and I was instructed to have a minimum of 60 grams of Protein per day but nothing regarding calories. I'm wondering if the healing is the focal point and not the calories so much? If anyone has a recommend calorie count I should be aiming for each day please let me know. Thanks!!

[colorado_chick 55]

Hi. My instructions were the same as yours. I was told to count my Protein grams and how much liquids I was drinking. I asked if there was a calorie goal or restriction, and my nutritionist told me not to count calories at all - she said to just worry about healing and getting protein. However, I did sometimes count calories, especially towards the end of the week when I was being more adventurous with food. I always aimed for less than 1000 calories, and more than 600. I just made up those random numbers, though, because they seemed right to me!

[miss679 39]

Thank you for your reply! This makes sense to me!

[miss679 39]

Thank you for your reply! This makes sense to me!