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On average how many calories do you take in a day? Im taking in about 1000. Just wondered if I'm doing this right. Thanks

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I eat 1200 calories a day, about 70g Protein.< /p>

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Around 1200 per day, give or take 20-30.

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Do you count your carb intake as well? I am so afraid to eat things with carbs in them. I do not eat Rice, Pasta or bread. But for instance my sugar free pudding has 15 carbs in it....is that ok???

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Do you count your carb intake as well? I am so afraid to eat things with carbs in them. I do not eat Rice' date=' Pasta or bread. But for instance my sugar free pudding has 15 carbs in it....is that ok???[/quote']

I don't count my carbs, but I don't eat a lot of carbs. I focus on Protein first, then veggies and every once in a while I'll have carbs with my meal. I only eat 1 cup food per meal. My Snacks are high Protein (greek yogurt, cheese, peanuts).

Hope that helps.

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I eat 500-800 but I didnt lose this week so I am going to try eating 1000 this week. I also dont count carbs mostly Protein.< /p>

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I've currently been carb cycling to break a plateau' date=' but when I'm not or on a high carb day, I don't count carbs at all.

I love bread, Pasta, potatoes, rice, etc and I refuse to deprive myself and live without them.[/quote']

After reading your post, I have bought the book. Can't wait to start. Thank you fir being a active member.

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On average how many calories do you take in a day? Im taking in about 1000. Just wondered if I'm doing this right. Thanks

In my losing stage I ate 1000 calories each day after clearing it with the dr. I have 11 more lbs to take off my I am doin g it in the maintainience stage so i eat about 1500 calories now... But I have trouble eating all that. I expect when I get those 11 lbs off I may need a slight unfill... Not sure how that works.

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Do you guys snack or just focus on your 3 meals a day? I find myself always wanting to snack...Mis73 you are down about 168 right? How did you lose it so quickly in 10 months? Do you exercise as well?

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I eat about 800 - 1000 cal per day, and "try" to get to 65 - 70g of Protein a day. I'm getting better at it. I also try to eat 3 -5 times a day, and track my food on MFP. Great tool!

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Why should you not snack? I've been wondering this. My doc says just 3 meals, that's it.

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I've currently been carb cycling to break a plateau, but when I'm not or on a high carb day, I don't count carbs at all.

I love bread, Pasta, potatoes, rice, etc and I refuse to deprive myself and live without them.

I don't know what this is. I will have to look into it.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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