Calorie limits?

[deanna2178 88]

My nut said to get my 64's in with Protein and Water and to be careful with carbs but she doesn't ever say what should be my Cal goal after surgery isn't calories something I will need to watch? In my packet they gave me from the Dr it has alot of Protein shake options to make but most contain fruits so I'm worried I may drank to many calories.

Has anyone else wondered this?

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[JamieLogical 8,697]

My nutritionist never gave me a calorie limit either. She just told me 100 grams of Protein a day and no liquid calories (no shakes or Soups once I was cleared for solid foods).

I just tried to push up over 800 calories a day once I was cleared for exercise. Then more like 1100 calories a day once I was running and doing more intense exercise. And I think I was up around 1400-1500 by the end of my weight loss phase. Now that I am in maintenance and training for a half marathon, I need about 2200-2600 a day to not keep losing weight, but I'm 19 months post-op at this point.

If you are very early post-op, your chances of getting too many calories are very slim. More likely you will be getting too few calories.

[deanna2178 88]

My nutritionist never gave me a calorie limit either. She just told me 100 grams of Protein a day and no liquid calories (no shakes or Soups once I was cleared for solid foods).

I just tried to push up over 800 calories a day once I was cleared for exercise. Then more like 1100 calories a day once I was running and doing more intense exercise. And I think I was up around 1400-1500 by the end of my weight loss phase. Now that I am in maintenance and training for a half marathon, I need about 2200-2600 a day to not keep losing weight, but I'm 19 months post-op at this point.

If you are very early post-op, your chances of getting too many calories are very. More likely you will be getting too few calories.

Thank you

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[kaitlynm 335]

My Bariatric coordinator (she runs the support group) says we are supposed to aim for 800 calories per day, and then up to 1000 if you exercise intensely. There were a lot of people kind of surprised how low that was in my group however.

[JamieLogical 8,697]

My Bariatric coordinator (she runs the support group) says we are supposed to aim for 800 calories per day, and then up to 1000 if you exercise intensely. There were a lot of people kind of surprised how low that was in my group however.

Restricting calories too much is going to cause stalls and potentially wreck your metabolism long term. While you need to create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight, creating too large a deficit will cause metabolism to slow as your body goes into self-preservation mode. I feel like the advice that some WLS patients get to keep their calories below 1000 a day is what contributes to situations where I people are upset that they can't eat more than 1100 or 1200 calories a day in maintenance. By pushing my calories up to more reasonable levels in my weight loss phase and eating enough to sustain the level of exercise I was doing, I feel like my metabolism is still going strong in maintenance. I've been able to maintain at goal for 7 months now and over the past 30 days (I got a FitBit, so I've been tracking my food) I've actually lost a couple more pounds eating an average 2000 calories a day. Granted, I am training for a half marathon, so I'm burning an average over 2350 calories a day (thus the weight loss instead of maintaining). But even on my laziest days, when I literally get under 2000 steps the whole day, I still burn at least 1600-1700 calories.

[rnsamantha 352]

I'm nine months out and my surgeon recommends a minimum of 1200 calories on rest days and 1500 on the days I work out (5 days per week). I had gotten lax with tracking food and my protein/calorie intake was lower than I thought. Now I'm aiming for at least 75g Protein daily.

[JamieLogical 8,697]

I'm nine months out and my surgeon recommends a minimum of 1200 calories on rest days and 1500 on the days I work out (5 days per week). I had gotten lax with tracking food and my protein/calorie intake was lower than I thought. Now I'm aiming for at least 75g Protein daily.

Sounds about right to me for where I was at that time. Except I was aiming for 100 grams a day of Protein. But for calories, I think that's about where I was late into the weight loss phase.