So - as many regulars here know, I was put on a 600 cal/70g protein regimen by my surgeon. I am 3 months post-op now and the weight has been coming off excrutiatingly slow. Recently I decided to shake things up and did 3 days of 800+ cals and then 3 days back at 600. It didn't seem to do anything and, in a moment of rebellion-sabotage, I said f*** it and started eating between 700-800 cals. Well guess what? I'm losing weight, better than before. It's only been 4 days of doing this but I've lost about a pound a day.

The dillemma is this - should I go back to the 600 cals? If I stay at this higher cal. point, will the positives turn out to be short term? I understand that a shake up of cals can jump start the loss but if I keep on eating that, will it end up having an adverse reaction?

I say Keep you cals where you are now at the higher end and if you keep loosing then GREAT keep it up. If you start to stall again then take the tme to re evaluate. Good luck Sorry about your nut and keep hounding you dr

I say Keep you cals where you are now at the higher end and if you keep loosing then GREAT keep it up. If you start to stall again then take the tme to re evaluate. Good luck Sorry about your nut and keep hounding you dr

So yesterday I ate only 600 but the day before I ate a little over 800. This morning I weighed myself and was down almost a pound in two days so, who knows which calorie level did it. Maybe it was the drastic change from 800+ to 600. I have no idea if I should eat 600 today or 800. Ideas?

Hi Globe -- I'm going to weigh in on this (ha) -- my nutritionist wants me to eat A LOT more carbs than I think I should be eating . . . and less Protein than I've read elsewhere. So, I'm going to see her, but I'm going to be getting in my 80 grams of protein, going to be eating around 800 calories (I seem to lose better there), and eating much, much less carbs than she recommends. Her idea is that I should be acclimatizing myself to "regular" food. But, I figure I don't want to eat carbs right now, I should take advantage of the 6 month window while I have it and really work my sleeve. Plus, right now I really don't want to eat much more than protein -- the carbs are kind of gross right now.

I'm with the others who think maybe you should see someone new? Or maybe give a week's worth of 800 calories just to see the results?? It doesn't make sense that she is not listening to what you're saying and yet you have results when you eat a couple hundred more calories. . . .

Great link! Thank you!

I've read a lot of posts on here about people being in stalls or not losing. One thing that seems to be similar with them all is the very low calorie intake. Even myself.. I think that we think the less calories, the better loss. Not true. In fact, I am going to up my own caloric intake and see if I don't get myself back on the losing train. Also... Water, water, water. I remember from my earliest teen days in weight watchers, the more you drink water, the better loss.

Good luck!

I went to see my nut today, I've lost 8.8 pounds in 3 weeks, which is really good for me, she said. She also said I should continue on 900-1000 cal/day, and have a balanced diet including all the food groups. She didin't mind that my carbs are quite high, 60 and sometimes 90 (once even 100!!) as long as I'm still eating protein, similar to what Julie's nut said. I intend to continue doing the same till i reach near goal. In total I've lost 46 pounds, including pre-op diet, and I couldn't be happier. I agree that shocking the body (some days doing lower calories) helps with weight loss for some reason.

I've also read in several other posts that if you stall you should up the calories so I'd say to eat at least 800 calories if not more. One or more people even said to up the fats and that worked for them enough times that it wasn't a coincidence.

I've also read in several other posts that if you stall you should up the calories so I'd say to eat at least 800 calories if not more. One or more people even said to up the fats and that worked for them enough times that it wasn't a coincidence.

Oh yes, definitely. I noticed some time ago that I need to keep my daily fat grams high, between 20-25, or I wouldn't lose at all.

I went back to 600 for 2 days and instead of losing almost 2 pounds like I was doing on 800, I lost half a pound. I just don't know what to dooooooo!

I can't switch nut's, as my nut is a part of my surgical package and surgeon's office. Plus, being in Iraq I can't exactly shop around for a new nut. And besides, regular nuts don't comprehend the whole WLS thing and the real metabolic differences etc.

Oh yes, definitely. I noticed some time ago that I need to keep my daily fat grams high, between 20-25, or I wouldn't lose at all.

I went back to 600 for 2 days and instead of losing almost 2 pounds like I was doing on 800, I lost half a pound. I just don't know what to dooooooo!

I can't switch nut's, as my nut is a part of my surgical package and surgeon's office. Plus, being in Iraq I can't exactly shop around for a new nut. And besides, regular nuts don't comprehend the whole WLS thing and the real metabolic differences etc.

I would say do a couple of days round 600 and then a couple round 800 and continue doing that, your losing steadily so your doing smthng right i guess