I'm pretty new to this board, I posted only once before, and now I forgot how to do it, hopefully I'm posting in the right board, I just couldn't figure out how to start a thread to ask this question:

I'm eating now between 1200-1350 for the past two weeks, before I was doiong 1500-1600 and I was in a long plateau, I broke it after my last fill, but I'm concerned that I may still be eating too many calories? Can you tell you how many are you eating? any advises please? I weight 249 now, I walk 30-45 min per day. Thank you for your help.

Elena:help:

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I'm not an expert, but I think the most people eat around 12,000 a day or a bit less. But not to much less then that. You can click on the search button on the top bar and type in calories per day, and you can see the diffrent threads that talk about this issue.

I average between 800-900 calories per day. Every once in a while, I'll choose a day where I kick it up to about 1100-1200.

Thank you so much,Elena

I'm still around 200 - 300, but I'm just one week post-op and my appetite hasn't come back yet. After recovering I hope to range somewhere between 900 - 1100, depending on my current weight & activity level.

You might want to find out your basal metbolic rate and base your daily intake on that. Factor in your exercise too.

Thank you so much, I actually did the RMR at Ballys and it showed 2700, so I guess I could eat 1000 calories per day less than that which will be 1700 per day and still lose weight, but guess what, I tried that and it didn't work, I didn't lose. so it's confusing. Hugs,Helen

I average 500-800 calories a day. My doctor recomended 1000-1200 per day but I just can't get that down in a day!

I keep hearing from the dietian / exercise psycologist (spelling) that not to let it drop less the 1200 or your body tries hard to hold on to the weight.

I'm not sure the real answer but I eat about 1200 and I'm a slow loser now, so I'm not sure how I'd do if I went down to 600 - 800. I will try it after my fill, right now I'm feel too hungry.

Well, it doen't matter what I eat, so I've just given up counting calories all together. 700 or 1700, or anyplace in the middle I don't lose.

But I'm a special case, so don't base anything on me...

How come you don't lose at all?

I've been diagnosed with Cushing's, a rare metabolic disorder. I'm at the airport right now waiting for my flight to take me to see a specialist (ok, and to see my family) in Seattle.

You can read about Cushing's either in my journal (see my sig for the link) or search for the key word Cushing's.