Post Op Week 5 - I Tried to Increase Calories

[Lucky2Lose 184]

Hello Everyone

I am 5 weeks post op. I'm on the soft food stage. This morning I had some scrambled eggs, and I decided to try and eat a little more than I usually do. That was a big mistake. I thought "I am getting a little full", and two bites later, that went to "I think I ate too much". The next thing I know, I had to run to the bathroom and I lost my Breakfast.

I have been stalling quite a bit since week 3 with my weight. I thought that if I could try and increase my calories a bit, then hopefully it would help give my metabolism the push that it needed to where perhaps I could lose a little more weight. I am currently getting in between 475-550 calories a day.

My thoughts on this are that I need to just continue on the way I've been doing things, even if it means that I'm not going to lose much weight for awhile. I would like to hear others thoughts and experiences with this. Thanks for sharing!

HW 334

Pre-Op diet weight 312

Surgery Day weight 300

CW 277[/

I'm confused..my calories are much higher just a month out with all the Protein supplements (60-90g) that I am required to take, they put me from 800-1,000 a day..how are you getting such low calorie counts?

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Hello Everyone

I am 5 weeks post op. I'm on the soft food stage. This morning I had some scrambled eggs, and I decided to try and eat a little more than I usually do. That was a big mistake. I thought "I am getting a little full", and two bites later, that went to "I think I ate too much". The next thing I know, I had to run to the bathroom and I lost my Breakfast.

I have been stalling quite a bit since week 3 with my weight. I thought that if I could try and increase my calories a bit, then hopefully it would help give my metabolism the push that it needed to where perhaps I could lose a little more weight. I am currently getting in between 475-550 calories a day.

My thoughts on this are that I need to just continue on the way I've been doing things, even if it means that I'm not going to lose much weight for awhile. I would like to hear others thoughts and experiences with this. Thanks for sharing!

HW 334

Pre-Op diet weight 312

Surgery Day weight 300

CW 277[/

I'm confused..my calories are much higher just a month out with all the Protein supplements (60-90g) that I am required to take, they put me from 800-1,000 a day..how are you getting such low calorie counts?

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[mylighthouse 782]

To Lucky2Lose:

I have been getting in over 70 grams of Protein a day since my second week out of surgery.

It is just that I can't eat much at a meal, and that was putting my calorie total for the day between 450 and 500. So that's just the way it worked out for me.

Now that I am adding the extra Protein Powder, it is increasing my calories and Protein, obviously. Now I am getting over 100 g of protein a day and my calories are up over 600 and moving into 700 a day.