Oh no! My hair is falling out!

[KateBruin 344]

As you can see here, it doesn't have much to do with meeting your macros. No one is really sure why, but they guess it's because of trauma and hormonal imbalance--which happens any time there's a major incident like this (many people have it happen after childbirth). It's my guess that if we were able to eat a normal diet after surgery, it wouldn't happen. But 800-1300 calories is starvation level, so the body takes that on as a trauma. No need for hair when you're about to die of famine!

Totally. I even eat “high” calories for being 5 months out according to my dietician. It’s just frustrating. Emptying my brush every couple days is such a pain in the ass even though it’s a minor task. Surgeons NP said Hair loss will basically continue for a year then I’ll notice baby hairs. I’m hoping it’ll grow back sooner because when I reach my doctors goal weight (15-18 lbs to go) and I switch to more of a bulking diet so I can put on more muscle.

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6 hours ago, KateBruin said:

Surgeons NP said hair loss will basically continue for a year then I’ll notice baby hairs.

Mine was falling out from around month 6-9, it's been growing back for the last three months. I'm glad but also the baby hairs are driving me nuts! Never had such frizzy looking hair. I bet the bulking diet will help your hair!