spatters101

I did really good for 8 months and lost 83 pounds. Now I eat between 800 and 1200 calories/day. Carbs between 30 and 75 per day. At least 80 grams of protein. Eat some fat but don't go hog wild. Exercise at least 4x week for 30 - 40 minutes. Have stopped losing weight for about 5 months now. I am very disappointed.

Hi, Dr. Rehnke did my surgery on May 18 of 2010. Did you have your surgery and how are you doing?

You know, I think the end of the line is that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. So whether you eat low carb, low fat or whatever.....you have to look at those calories. While eating bacon, sausage, cheese and other 'high fat' stuff certainly makes you feel full and doesn't cause your glucose to do a roller coaster all over the place you can't eat a lot of it (which is a good thing). On the other hand, eating a lot of high carb stuff to not eat fat is sort of senseless cause that makes you hungry due to the glucose. I think the bottom line is eat Protein, then vege's then carbs and fit your fat in there somewhere. In the end whether you eat 1200 calories of low carb or 1200 calories of low fat, you still ate 1200 calories. What matters to me is how those calories make me feel...full and satisfied or looking for something else.

Steroids will make you HUNGRY. I have been on them before and the antibiotics don't help any. It might take you a couple of weeks to get over the steroids. And the best thing to do is to cut out any sugar period. Once your body is back to normal, maybe you can add your chips back and control it.