Hi everyone!

Just curious - have any of you been given a guideline in terms of calories per day post-op? For instance, I know in my first week post-op I wasn't consuming many calories because of the liquid diet. Now I'm onto week 2/stage 2 and I was instructed to have a minimum of 60 grams of Protein per day but nothing regarding calories. I'm wondering if the healing is the focal point and not the calories so much? If anyone has a recommend calorie count I should be aiming for each day please let me know. Thanks!!

Hi. My instructions were the same as yours. I was told to count my protein grams and how much liquids I was drinking. I asked if there was a calorie goal or restriction, and my nutritionist told me not to count calories at all - she said to just worry about healing and getting protein. However, I did sometimes count calories, especially towards the end of the week when I was being more adventurous with food. I always aimed for less than 1000 calories, and more than 600. I just made up those random numbers, though, because they seemed right to me!

Thank you for your reply! This makes sense to me!

Thank you for your reply! This makes sense to me!