Hi,

I am 3 and 1/2 weeks post op. I am in the soft foods stage.

My nutritionist was very good at telling me what types of food I should be eating, even gave me a great booklet with suggestions etc.

What she failed to give me was the quatities and total calories that I should be eating. I am trying to stay between 800 and 1200 calories. Invariably, I tend towards the 1200 or slightly more. I am supposed to maintain 100g of protien per day....which I have been doing. I lost 16 lbs the first week, and have lost a total of 25 lbs to date.

For a guy...does anyone have any rules of thumb, or ideas for me on the amount of calories I SHOULD be taking in each day.

Thanks

jim

I'd be interested to hear this as well.

I'm only 10 days post op and don't have a sense of how many calories I should be drinking/eating either (though I'm female so I assume it's less)... But I'm interested in knowing how you get 100g of protein a day. Are you mostly drinking protein shakes?

Ive been doing the ISOPURE drinks, and the one I got is 40g of protein each bottle.

I've been drinking the Premier Nutrition Protien drinks from Costco. They are 30g of protien per drink. 3 of those gets me almost there for the day. But I find that I am able to substitute one or 2 per day with real foods now and still maintain the 100g.

Ooh! I didn't know they had that much Protein in them. Do you get them at GNC or Vitamin Shoppe or at any old grocery store?

Ive been doing the ISOPURE drinks, and the one I got is 40g of protein each bottle.

I did what I should have done before posting my question (my apologies). I searched the forum and found another post that answered my question:

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/70601-re-how-many-calories-per-day-after-lap-band/