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At this point in my life, I must have read at least a million weight loss success stories and they follow a general pattern:
1. A person made goal by religiously tracking their calorie intake.
2. A person got to their goal weight by tracking, life happened and they stopped tracking, and now they've regained weight (sometimes possibly gained more weight than the last time they started).
3. A person got to goal weight by tracking calorie intake, and they continue to maintain their weight by tracking their calorie intake.
Tracking seems to be an important theme here. Do what works for you.

I think the new set point will help keep things stable long-term, without having to worry about weighing things down to the gram.
But, at only 6 months post op, we aren't AT our new set point yet, and even if we are, we don't know it. It's too early to relax.
And, when I say "relax", I mean:
Pre-op: Pajamas
Weight loss phase: Tuxedo
Maintenance: Business casual

When you move out into the woods and hunt/fish/forage, then I give you permission to stop "tracking".. oh, but weight ( )... how do you catch wild game, without tracking??
Humans have tracked all throughout history, why stop now?
I worked in the dietary department of my local hospital 14 years ago. We counted everything on the patients' trays. Scoops measured serving sizes. Number of carbohydrate servings were limited for diabetic patients, etc. etc. If a hospital measures out food for everyone, why shouldn't we do that at home? (Most people lose some weight in the hospital.. there's a reason for that, beyond illness!).
I got reprimanded at my support meeting for only eating 1100-ish calories a day at 6 months out. Not sure how many they think I SHOULD be eating, but that's how I'm able to continue losing weight! Once I hit maintenance it'll go up.