Typical Calorie Intake

[im sooo excited 6]

What is your typical calorie intake in a day? Post op during the mushie stage and the solid stage

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

I range between 600 calories on poor days and 900 on good days. I'm on solid foods now.

About you?

[im sooo excited 6]

Im startin mushies 2moro

[AbacoRaveness 44]

I was around 600cal per day the first week. I noticed that I was kinda stalling a little the second week, so I bumped up to 700cal per day and my losing kicked back in. I figure I'll stay around 700 until I hit another stall then bump up to 800. I've heard on these forums before, though my center never mentioned it, that you should be somewhere between 600 and 800cal/day in the mushie phase.

[alexeleni 15]

I am on mushies with some solids (today: yogurt, tuna, and maybe some chicken breast.)

and hitting 600 cal a day pretty consistently, but I am not losing very fast. Should I be eating more?

[RickM 1,752]

From the second week on out I was taking in 900-1100 calories per day; we had no distinct mushy or liquid stage, just a combined liquid/mush/soft Protein as tolerated for the first month moving on to most anything else within tolerance after that. That worked well for me, providing a fairly consistent 2-3lb per week loss, but I'm a fairly large (final weight) guy who's fairly skinny at 190lb goal weight. YMMV

[fitforlife 18]

I am on mushies with some solids (today: yogurt, tuna, and maybe some chicken breast.)

and hitting 600 cal a day pretty consistently, but I am not losing very fast. Should I be eating more?

it seems like you are losing alot. almost 20 lbs in a little more than 3 wks? that's alot. I had my surgery on 1/23/12 and only lost 14 lbs. not sure what I'm doing wrong. But I've heard from others that if you start less (like you and I---low 200's) then you lose slower. I started at 220 on my surgery date and now I'm 206. I also had to lose 30lbs before surgery.

[AbacoRaveness 44]

I am on mushies with some solids (today: yogurt, tuna, and maybe some chicken breast.)

and hitting 600 cal a day pretty consistently, but I am not losing very fast. Should I be eating more?

It's hard to say whether you should be eating more or not. If you're losing consistently, then I would say to stay where you're at until you stall completely. The fact that you're losing at all means that your body is in a good place and willing to let go of excess.

I guess it couldn't hurt to experiment with bumping up your intake a little. But be prepared that you may not lose any faster or even at all that week. Everyone's body is a little different and what works for one (me) may not neccessarily work for all (you).

I guess my advice at this point is to do what "feels" right.

[Catracks 865]

I get between 600-700 calories a day and I'm on solids. I was told not to count calories though - just to get the requisite Protein in and keep the meals between 2-3 oz. for now. I think it will eventually increase to 4 oz. per meal.