I read all my bookletts and no where does it say how many calories I can eat. Shoot i'll puree a big mac if I can. LOL! No really I am being really inventive such as: low fat refried beans with gucamole sour cream and cheese. Sounds like alot of calories but I can only eat 1/2 a cup. Or tuna with relish, eggs and mayo. Again 1/2 a cup. I can count the calories so I don't go over board with ingrediants. I just need to know how many to eat!:bolt:

Are you a member of My Lap Band Journey on www.lapband.com? I was looking through that site today, and they have reciped for every stage of the process, and there were actually a lot of recipes that involved refried beans! I am so excited to try some of them out.

I called my dietician and asked her the same question. I have a realize band and I log all my food in the food log and it keeps track of fluid intake, calories, fat carbs and protein...etc. I'm only managing about 500 calories a day BUT 60 gr of protien. She said DONT worry about the calories worry about the protien. I can't tell you how full and ENERGETIC I feel. This weekend i had no desire to sit on the couch I need to get up and move and do things...who knew on 500 calories a day I could have this much get up and go!! Weird huh??