So I'm just a gastric baby. 1 week post-op. I'm only managing 350-450 calories per day right now as I get into the swing of things. I think my initial goal is somewhere between 7-900 calories. Have many of you noticed that eating the low end of calories stalls or minimizes your losses? By eating at the top of your calorie range, do you feel you have a better weight loss? I hear eating too few calories places you on starvation mode, which if like to avoid. Just curious hire your body's respond to calorie intake

When first starting out I would only eat what I am comfortable with. Don't force yourself to eat more. Your weight loss will be more in the first few months and as you go along, you will be able to eat more calories and sometimes you wish you were eating less. I am 8 months post op and eating about 1000 cal and wish I could eat less. Don't rush it. Take the time to find out what your pouch likes and give it time to heal. You will run into stalls, but take your measurements now and you will find you are losing inches when you are not losing pounds.

In my program we started out attempting to get 450 calories per day, working up from there. They continuously stressed to us that the two most important things were fluids (no matter what at least 64oz per day) and Protein (45g initially, then 60 then 75 from here on out).

At close to 5 months out I notice that when I don't get enough of either of these, my weight loss slows regardless of how much i'm working out and keeping active.

I haven't tried to vary my caloric range to see what that impact would be, but by having the surgery we are essentially choosing to put our bodies into starvation mode, so personally I don't see how consuming more calories (slightly less starvation mode) would allow you to lose more than consuming fewer (more aggressive starvation mode).