Did anyone eat below 400 or 300 calories for a year post op after gastric sleeve?

[Best 0]

Hi all , happy new year 2015 , I'm new to this forum , I would like to know have anyone eaten below 300 calories for a year after gastric sleeve, what was ur starting weight and previously current weight at the end of the first year, , how much u lost , did u felt hungry. How much of ur stomach was removed and what was ur bougie size. How much of ur excess weight do u lost. By the way I will be under the supervision of medical doctors, so please no negative comments. Comment should only be based on the topic, thanks in advance.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

No.

[Bufflehead 6,358]

No, my entire bariatric team would have come down on me like a load of bricks if I tried anything like that. I don't think I could have anyway.

[BitterSweet* 835]

Second opinions are a really good thing.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Just out of curiosity (I promise not to send you any follow-up questions or comments), why are you and your medical team considering following WLS with a year-long 300-400 calorie/day diet?

Edited January 4, 2015 by VSGAnn2014

[Tauruslady5 154]

I had my surgery on 11/21/14. I have not even succeeded eatting 300-400 calories a day. I try, but my stomach I guess is just not ready.

I eat about 2 oz of food every 3 hours if that. Sometimes I have to force myself to eat something because I am not hungry.

My starting weight was 300 pounds and right now I weight 249.5. I am proud of the work I have succeeded at so far.

What I am suppose to do is eat 3 meals of 300 calories each and 3 Snacks at 100 calories each. I will eventually get there, but I am only a little over a month out.

Happy New Years to you also.

[Miss Mac 6,261]

Welcome to the forum. I just passed my first year on December 23, 2014. I started out at 235 pounds with an original goal weight of 135. I would say I am a slow loser since I only lost 66 pounds, but that is 66 pounds of potatoes that I am not carrying around on my bones 24/7. At my one year visit, the doctor adjusted my goal to 155 and said that once I get to that point, plastics should take care of another 15 pounds. My insurance will pay for a panniculectomy after the second year is up, so basically I have a year to lose the other 14 pounds.

Since my six month visit, I have been instructed to eat 800-1200 calories, 80 grams of Protein and 64 ounces of Water. That is all manageable. My quality of began to improve about the time I passed the first thirty pounds. My arthritis pain is less, my mobility is improved, even my balance and posture are some better. My bed feels bigger, my shoes and rings are looser, and I have gone from a size 24 to 12-14.

Internally my body is pleased to have outstanding nutrition. The chronic inflammation has subsided and I am no longer prediabetic. I have dropped four meds since being sleeved. My mental outlook as improved since I no longer feel doomed to an early death like most of my obese family.

I have to admit that even though I had no surgical complications and the pain of recovery has been minimal, the first coupke of weeks were tough. But that was because of nausea not pain. Was I scared to have the surgery? You betcha, but I was more scared to die of an abdominal aortic aneurysm like mother did only a little older than I am now (she was 5'2" and 320 pounds) or of a heart attack like my brother did at the age of 47 (he was 6'2 and 420 pounds). Many of my 68 cousins (big big family) are dead already and we buried two more this past year.

So, every day that I wake up on this side of the dirt - that's a good day. The surgeon removed 80% of my stomach - not 85% as some do. Hunger has not really been a problem. My tongue wants to taste more than my stomach wants to process. I do not miss the horrendous volume of food that I used to eat, and I nearly gag now to see my family members load their plates with enough to feed a horse, salt it up, and then go in for seconds....plus drink a quart of soda. How I lived this long, I do not know. I have already had a stroke which is what prompted getting sleeved.

I think 300-400 calories is even less than my four year old granddaughter eats. I do eat in small quantities (less around 3/4 cup), but I eat three meals and two Snacks and sometimes a hot chocolate at bedtime. Eating that much Protein keeps hunger at bay and 800-1200 calories is a healthy amount to sustain health and exercise.

[Stevehud 1,790]

300 to 400 calories I don't think that's even possible if you actually eat food, there just aren't foods that low in calories. you could do it on a liquid diet for sure but a prolonged liquid diet will pretty much kill you.

[Elode 8,093]

@@Best No! That's beyond unhealthy! Are You saying your DR is telling you to do that and supervising it? Because if so I would run as far away from that "dr"'as possible. A caloric intake that low for that long is detrimental to your body, especially your vital organs! Thats just flat out ridiculous! And I say that in the nicest way possible. I hope your joking!

[Bobby46 327]

Who in the world could eat 300 to 400 calories every single day for a year? That is just crazy! That is 1 1/2, maybe 2, Protein shakes a day if you add nothing but 1% milk to them. There is no way I could do that for even 1 day let alone 1 year! After a year of that I would imagine a long hospital stay would be in your future!

I was told the average calorie intake after surgery for the first few weeks was 500 to 700....and that is eating the minimum requirements of the basic after surgery diet. I am suppose to be up to 1200 calories a day by the 6 mth point.

[Packerfan61964 293]

#1 it is totally 100% unhealthy!! It is virtually impossible to stay in that range. 3 Protein shakes a day would give you between 480 and 900 calories a day depending on which brand you use.

[Elode 8,093]

If your 5'9 with a BMI of 42.8 then that puts you at 290 lbs. your BMR (the amount of calories you burn in a day even if your just laying in bed and don't move ) is roughly 2,241 calories a day. Now, with that being said if you take 400 calories away from that That means your still losing 1841 calories a day. How is your body going to function For a year (healthily) when you are negative 1,841 calories? This just doesn't make any sense. AND why the one year date? If you could even possibly pull that off You would (without moving) burn 671,965 calories in a year. 1 pound is 3500 calories. You divide that into the calories and that would mean you would roughly lose (based on calculations) 191.99 lbs. soooooo Your DR wants you to weigh 98lbs? And that's on just 400 calories God forbid you do 300. This my friend is why you would be deathly ill if not dead.

Edited January 4, 2015 by Elode

[Kindle 8,667]

Ditto to what everyone said. 300-400 calories is extremely unhealthy. You will be starving your body of vital nutrients. This is the first time I have ever heard of such a postop regimen. If your Bariatric team wants you on that kind of restriction, why bother with surgery? You will lose way too much, too quickly, and be malnourished. But to answer your questions.....

I am 12 1/2 months out from surgery. I started at 238 pounds. (BMI 40). I have lost over 100% of my excess body weight.

My surgeon used a 32Fr Bougie and oversews the staple line to make a very tight sleeve. No idea what % of my stomach that ended up being.

I had no appetite for the first 3-4 months, but my hunger returned in full force by 6 months. I noticed a decrease in restriction around 8-10 months, but has stayed the same since then. At this point it's all about controlling head hunger.

I was consuming over 500 calories within the first month and 1000 calories by 4 months postop.

Passed my surgeon's goal (160) at 6 months and upped my calories to 1200.

I passed my personal goal of 150 (BMI 25) at 7 months and have been maintaining at 140 pounds (BMI 23) on 1400-1600 calories for the past 4 months.

I still drink a large Protein smoothie everyday to meet my 64oz Fluid and 60-80g Protein requirements.

Edited January 4, 2015 by Kindle

[wannaBthinsoon 1,634]

I really hate math, ,but this was really enlightening! @@Elode you are a mathematical genius!

[Elode 8,093]

@@wannaBthinsoon Ha! I got nothing but time today!! And no he's just lucky because I hate math!