How many times a day to eat?

[xoxococojay 842]

I literally made a post about this topic asking the same question.

Everyone is different so find what works for you. Literally just experiment.


I do 3 meals- with no Snacks.< br>
I don't need to snack and 6 meals is just over eating for me. It's to much.

[blizair09 3,250]

22 minutes ago, xoxococojay said:

I literally made a post about this topic asking the same question.

Everyone is different so find what works for you. Literally just experiment.


I do 3 meals- with no Snacks.

I don't need to snack and 6 meals is just over eating for me. It's to much.

I'm curious -- how much Protein do you take in per day? The reason I ask is because if you're aiming for 100 grams, it would be very hard to get that in 3 meals without using Protein Shakes.

[xoxococojay 842]

Oh 100g is way to much for me. My dr and dietician all said 60-80 grams. They said anything more than that i would be over eating.

I've never been a big Breakfast eater so i usually do a shake (30g) because i hate eating first thing in the morning.

If i do a shake i'm closer to 80. Without the shake, if i force myself to eat breakfast, i'm between 60-70g.
@blizair09

[xoxococojay 842]

I think that only posted half of my response. But i was saying that with a shake i'm closer to 80. Without a shake, between 60-70

[blizair09 3,250]

1 minute ago, xoxococojay said:

Oh 100g is way to much for me. My dr and dietician all said 60-80 grams. They said anything more than that i would be over eating.

I've never been a big Breakfast eater so i usually do a shake (30g) because i hate eating first thing in the morning.

If i do a shake i'm closer to 80. Without the shake, if i force myself to eat breakfast, i'm between 60-70g.
@blizair09

Gotcha. A lot of people are told to get a minimum of 100 grams of Protein. If that's the case, it's going to be hard to get it in 3 meals. I just didn't want people to read this and think that was doable without shakes, because the restriction of the sleeve wouldn't allow for that...

[xoxococojay 842]

That's fair. I'm just afraid of snacking because that's how i got to my heaviest in the first place.

I'm sick of shakes too. But i haven't found a breakfast that i like yet, so i'm stuck doing it that way for now.

[ready_to_be_thin 179]

On 1/28/2017 at 8:38 AM, Berry78 said:

I have been comparing post op diets from different surgery centers, and even the maintenance portions vary.

Johns Hopkins recommends eating 3 meals and two Snacks (one snack is just a cup of milk). Baha Bariatrics recommends 3 meals and no Snacks.

My pre-op self eats constantly, although I have eaten anything from 2 -5 meals a day while dieting before with good (albeit temporary) results.

What do y'all do?

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I won't say that I always do this because I forget and sometimes get busy, but I will tell you what my doctor told me to do. He said that I should eat about 5 times a day. My "eating" a lot of times is just my Protein Powder. I do try to do this anyway so this is just an example of what I might do and approximate times:

8:15: coffee with unflavored Protein mix

10:00: 1/2 Protein Bar

1pm: lunch

3pm: Protein Shake

5pm: the other 1/2 of protein bar

7pm: dinner

9:30: handful of nuts or some other kind of low carb snack

And I add unflavored protein mix to all of my drinks to increase my protein

[Berry78 4,261]

Now that I'm 3 weeks post op, my surgeon has me eating 6 times a day. Still trying to work the kinks out.