Is It Normal??

[nursemarti 1]

Most days I eat 800-1000 calories with 80mg being Protein. But about once a week I get ravenous hungry and need a 100 extra calories. Does anybody else have this problem. I'll be banded one month June 10th and I have lost 20.2 lbs is this good?

[nursemarti 1]

Grams not milligrams on the Protein. Sorry.

[2muchfun 8,927]

20 lbs is awesome. I don't keep track of calories and of course it's normal. I'm sure there are some on the forum who count calories to the number but 100 calories is an apple or a slice of cheese. An occasional 100 calories isn't going to make a diff.

tmf

[AXA 19]

I eat the same...about 800-1000 calories and 80-100 grams of Protein for 6 days. On the 7th, I eat as much as I want. I track it on myfitnesspal. I've had over 3,000 calories on my day off and I still lose about a pound a week. If I don't have that one day a week, I can't sustain the diet. There are a lot of names for this kind of diet: calorie cycling, the Spike Diet, the cyclic ketogenic diet, slow carb diet (that's my fav). If I could do it with just 100 extra calories on the 7th day, I'd probably lose 2 or 3 pounds a week but there's no way I can stick to strict diet for that long. Good for you for sustaining that.

[Cazzy 725]

I dont see anything wrong in increasing your calories for a day a week, i would be concened to eating a large amount on one day tho, how do u get in 3000 calories a day Axa without stretching your pouch or eating unhealthy food .. just curious, not judging

[taysidebell 176]

I try to focus on real hunger not head hunger 60 plus protien but don't think am extra 100 Cals is ant thing to worry about and 20lb in a month is great x

[AXA 19]

I dont see anything wrong in increasing your calories for a day a week, i would be concened to eating a large amount on one day tho, how do u get in 3000 calories a day Axa without stretching your pouch or eating unhealthy food .. just curious, not judging

On my off day, I tend to eat a lot of fruit, toasted wheat bread, and cheese so it's still healthy, just a lot of carbs (normal carbs for me is under 100g daily). About one day a month, I overload on sugar. Everything I love is a slider food: chocolate pudding, chocolate milk, juice, ice cream, bananas, strawberries, fruit smoothies, muscle milk light, and Cookies. So it doesn't really put pressure on my pouch since it all just slides through. Notice I don't have french fries, donuts, and fast food on the menu.

When I read about this diet, I thought first, it won't work, and second, it's unhealthy. However, I did it for my pre-op diet and dropped 8 pounds quickly and easily. Then, after surgery I thought I wouldn't have to do that diet anymore. Wrong. Lapband doesn't work for me without a diet so I went back on it and lost 25 more pounds in just the last two months. It tricks my body into thinking that it's not going into starvation mode so my metabolism doesn't downshift.