Caloric Intake

[TL4264 8]

I am 2 1/2 months post op and am keeping up with my intake via an app on my phone. I am around 900-1000 calories a day.....primarily Protein. I have been walking/running and am now ready to try something new. I have had the P90X program for a while (never was successful completing it before surgery). It comes with a Nutrition Guide that promotes a very similar diet to post op sleevers. However, it does specify increasing calories to be able to complete the workouts. If you use the "guidelines" they provide, I will need about 2400 calories a day.

I don't see that happening!!!! I had the surgery for the restriction it provides!

Have any of you guys done P90X, and did you have to increase your intake that much?? Or some other intense resistence training??

Just for kicks, how many calories are you guys consuming a day??

Thanks

[LatinCurves76 15]

I have never tried the program you are but I did do the 30 Day Shred and I increased my calories by maybe a couple of hundred? Do probably 1100, I will be 11 months out tomorrow and at about 900 calories a day but I still have a ways to goal.

[Cookeeeeez 269]

I'm supposed to eat 2800 a day for my weight to lose 1-2 pounds a week.., sounds strange but it comes from very reliable source...

Eat what you can and don't feel bad at 1000 if your program recommends more then it means you'll be losing weight, just remember this when you're on a stall- it's a big change for your body to expend so much and receive so little in return!

Sounds like you're doing great!!! Congrats!!!

[CdnExpat 49]

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I'm still struggling six months later to get 1000 calories/day in without being sick. I can't eat bread, Pasta, or anything spicy. Not that I'm complaining - definitely not. I eat Protein first and lots of lovely vegetables and salads. Carbohydrates do me in. 55 pounds lost.

I do Xbox "Dance Central" 30 minutes/day, and I've just started GSP Rushfit - the UFC workouts. Can't really do the power stuff, but I expect to improve. ;p

Sounds like you might have modify the workout if you're expected to use up 2400 calories of energy. You just can't eat that much. (How nice????)

CE

[FishingNurse 1,210]

I have had my BMR (basically my metabolism) checked at Lifetime fitness 3 times.

1st time I was told to eat 2500 calories a day to lose weight in 2008 when I was checked.... I weighed 255 at 5'4''... it took me 7 months to lose 25 pounds! (believe or not it was hard for me to only eat 2500 cals per day!)

2nd time I was 230lbs ( about 7 months after the fist one) and I was told to eat 2100 calories a day to lose weight. (yeah stopped at 230 and steadily gained back again :-(

Last time I had it checked I was 5 months post sleeve (i was about 190?) and was told to not go below 1600 cals a day. And I was told to eat a little more on days I work out.

I have stuck with that and lost almost 25 more pounds since that... eating a relatively larger amount of calories that most sleevers. Its not low carb but I do focus on protein...

I plan to have my BMR checked again soon. Can't wait!

the point of all this-- sometimes out bodies do better with more cals. (like mine) If I eat less consistently I feel like crap and I don't lose an ounce. Especially if you are doing super intense work outs.

[Ms skinniness 3,003]

This is great food for thought. I tend to do about 1200-1300 calories at times and I am still not moving the scale. Well it does go up some days though and then I freak out and cut back. I am sometimes curious as to whether the rules for us is different than the main stream population since we've drastically reduced our stomach size. I've been walking 2 miles most days of the week and feel great that way. But I am so afraid to eat 1300 calories right now. This is really scary stuff.

[TL4264 8]

Thanks for the input.....this is a new learning curve for me. I've done so well with such fewer calories, it's hard to imagine that ultimately....eating more will help lose more. I have lost almost 50 lbs in 2 1/2 months and really only have another 25 or 30 to get where I want to be. At 1000 calories a day....I'm only really eating cause I know I need to. Very seldom do I get that hunger feeling that I used to have before surgery. I know there's no way I could double my intake.....

What a blessing the sleeve has provided as a tool!!! If you would've told me 3 or 4 months ago, what my new concern no is....I would have laughed at you. I'm trying to figure out how to eat more, to be fueled enough to last with intense workouts.

Sounds like I need a BMR check......that would be interesting.

[TL4264 8]

This is great food for thought. I tend to do about 1200-1300 calories at times and I am still not moving the scale. Well it does go up some days though and then I freak out and cut back. I am sometimes curious as to whether the rules for us is different than the main stream population since we've drastically reduced our stomach size. I've been walking 2 miles most days of the week and feel great that way. But I am so afraid to eat 1300 calories right now. This is really scary stuff.

Ha....we were responding at the same time.

That's exactly why I ask.....do we have "different rules" now??

I mean.....I am functioning well now on 1000 calories a day....even when I run. If a "normal" person were to do that, they would be told they have to double their intake to stay healthy.

Maybe I'm putting too much thought into it....

[JenC 90]

I did a complete round of p90x program 18mths ago- pre surgery. Tony talks about "bonking" and getting enough nutrition to complete the exercise. I did not follow the nutrition plan, I had great measurement changes using the program. I am going to start p90x again (once this sprained ankle that I have tolerates it) I am going to continue on my prescribed method of eating from my doc and go from there. I expect I will have to add some additional calories to have the energy to complete but I am assuming I will add them in the form of Isopure and Beachbody Shakeology drinks as I struggle now to consume 800 calories of actual food a day. Your body will tell you if you need more energy to complete the workouts, you will feel overwhelming fatigue if you don't have the proper nutrition to support the intense workouts. JUST PUSH play and do your best! Would love to hear your results!

[ssriley 52]

I found the P90X to be too difficult to do since I am still too gravitationally challenged. Instead I'm now doing PS3 for 90-min's and it seems much easier to maintain the regimen.