Does anyone purposely vary their caloric intake?

[QueenOfTheTamazons 634]

I spoke with my bariatric nurse about 2 weeks ago. At the time I was eating 600-750 cals and 60g Protein a day. She said to boost my cals to 800-950 a day and 7-80g Protein, so I did. I am trying to work my way into getting my all my protein from food, which means that I am consuming more food with solid byproducts. That is leading me to have more issues with Constipation and some delays with loss. I have been gaining and losing the same 1.5lbs for the past 5 days.

Prior to upping my cals, I was averaging 1lb a day since surgery and in the past 10 days of higher cals I have been averaging 0.5lbs.

Should I consider ignoring the nurse and going back down to 750? Should I just chalk it up to mini stall and constipation?

I was also thinking of doing something along the lines of two days food, one day liquid only to mix things up and maybe help move things along. Does anyone stagger their caloric intake or switch up between food days and all liquid days?

HW 385 SW 359 CW 335 (50lbs down!) Sleeved 10/5/16

[Travelher 915]

nope. Ive set my goal at around 850 and don't often make it that high. doesn't seem to matter I''m still losing and actually increasing my calories broke my last stall. Frankly a pound a day is not realistic for any length of time (i only lost at that rate during my 2 week liquid diet and not since) so don't get used to that as normal or you will drive yourself crazy. .5lbs a day is fantastic, works out to about 15lbs a month which is pretty rapid weight loss as far as i'm concerned and that is faster weight loss than i expect for myself. I still do one shake a day, but I enjoy it. I used restoralax and don't get constipated. My stalls have typically lasted a week. I'm religiously sticking to plan and weighing and measuring everything still. Keep in mind that outside of bariatric surgery a 10lb loss for a month is considered extraordinarily great. This is a long game. choose foods well and stick it out and your body will do what it needs to do. from what i've read most of what you lose in the 1st year is mainly determined by genetics but what you lose beyond that and whether you have maintained it at 3 years out is much more influenced by your lifestyle and food choices. the vets on here who've been successful all echo that.

[QueenOfTheTamazons 634]

Im not focusing specifically on the weight, i just noticed that the weight loss slowed when I upped my cals. Maybe it would have slowed anyway...

Between Constipation and not losing, I was trying to decide if I should go back to previous method, change it up, or ride it out for a while.

I keep track of all consumed calories in the spark people app.

HW 385 SW 359 CW 335 (50lbs down!) Sleeved 10/5/16

[BigViffer 3,544]

Staggering your calories to "mix things up" or "trick your body" are just fad diets. You don't gain weight by the day nor lose it. It's a gradual decline or incline. You would have to mix things up by the week. And then you would only be teaching your body to hold on reserve on the lean weeks.

This is why we had the surgery, to get away from the fad diets. Just stick to the plan your surgeon provided.

[Sai 785]

I'm 10 weeks post-op revision to sleeve, after the 5th week, I've been slowly ramping up. My program wanted my goal to be between 800 to 1200 cal/day. Some days I eat 800, other days I eat 1200. I don't do it intentionally though. Some days I'm just not hungry, other days I am. Other than the first few weeks (lost a lot of Water weight the 3rd and 4th week), if I'm under 1000, I still lose but my weight loss slows down to a crawl.

[QueenOfTheTamazons 634]

Staggering your calories to "mix things up" or "trick your body" are just fad diets. You don't gain weight by the day nor lose it. It's a gradual decline or incline. You would have to mix things up by the week. And then you would only be teaching your body to hold on reserve on the lean weeks.

This is why we had the surgery, to get away from the fad diets. Just stick to the plan your surgeon provided.

I wasnt trying to trick my body. I am trying to find what works for me. I was losing at a faster rate and using the facilities on the reg when consuming less calories. The nurse said bump up, so I did but I havent gone a normal amount in 4 days.

The point was to see if anyone else varied their intake to keep everything dropping like its supposed to. Or if anyone else switched between full food and liquids in an intermintant fasting kind of way.

I know that i will lose the weight eventually, i am not handling the fullness and bloating that comes with Constipation well. Its been literally over a decade since I have had tbis problem.

HW 385 SW 359 CW 335 (50lbs down!) Sleeved 10/5/16