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I just met with my nutritionist about a week ago, and she told me that I might be too low. I'm getting 900-1000 calories a day, and she said I should be at around 1200. I've been losing okay, so I'm not too worried about it right now, but if I go into a stall, I'll need to bump it up some.

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Yes, absolutely. At about 6 weeks I was still only eating about 500 calories and I was exercising an hour a day burning over 200 calories. My body was in starvation mode and I stopped losing for 4 weeks.

I was told to eat more and exercise less! First time in my life where I had been given that advice. LOL!

Anyway, I increased my Protein even more, also got my calories up to about 800 and decreased my exercise to 40 minutes per day. My stall broke within a couple of days after I made the change.

Good luck!

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Thank you, all! That is exactly what I needed to know. I've been averaging around 600 calories and felt guilty for that when I would read about other people only eating 300-500 cal per day. I felt like I was overeating, but I'm not really losing weight. Your comments really helped. Btw, I'm one month post-op.

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My nutritionist said to eat around 750 calories and I am 4 months out. I stalled forever. I wonder if my body was in starvation mode. Now I only pay attention to getting my Protein. If I go over...oh well. I've started losing again. Drives me nuts that we r all told something different.

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I am 3m out and I set my cals at 700 a day. With exercise I add calories burned back into my daily calorie goal... Well my fitness pal does it for me. Lol but I try to stay at 700. I am 12 weeks out and down 43 pounds.

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I agree about it driving me nuts but we are all told different things! I just change my calorie intake to 800 on my fitness pal. I'll see if I can get in that many calories each day. I guess it will just be a trial and error situation.

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I am one month out and get about 400--500 calories a day. I am not losing either. I see my surgeon on Tuesday for my one month follow up. I was never told how many calories to aim for a day. Ii was told to aim for 60 grams of Protein, that is it. Well, that could be 2 Protein shakes and that is only 320 calories.

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I am now 8 and half months out and my calorie intake is 1000 a day.

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My Protein intake is now 95-100 grams per day Water is 70 per day and I exercise 5 times per day for 120 mins .

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I'm five months out and have been in a stall for a month. The weight flew off the first four months. I tried it all, increased intake, increased Protein, increased exercise. Then turned it back around. I'm holding now at around 700 cal and around 100 protein? I go for a follow up this week and plan to talk to the Nut about it. I honestly just don't know. It just hit me, maybe if I go back to just liquids for a few days it will kick start something. Well, I guess instead of doing something new let's see what the Nut says.

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