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I am so scared of gaining weight back. I eat about 1400 calories a day. I watch what I eat. I allow myself to eat what is being served but just a little. Not at every meal but once a day I will eat something not as healthy as I would like. I'm not gaining or over doing it but is that going to last? Has anyone just ate like a "normal person"? Have never Weighed or tracked my food like I do now.

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What does your nutritionist say?

Are you getting in all your Protein and fluids?

Do you exercise?

How far are you from surgery?

The answer to those questions will tell you more than the number of calories you are consuming.

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I only saw a nutritionist at 3 months, I am 11 months now. I am at goal weight. I do exercise. I also get plenty of Protein and usually get all my fluids in. I requested to see a nutritionist 4 months ago . I have an appointment in 2 weeks. I have been at goal weight for 6 months. I'm just confused.

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It's great that you have an appointment with a nutritionist. He or she should be able to help you work out a plan based on your goals and objectives.

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I am so scared of gaining weight back. I eat about 1400 calories a day. I watch what I eat. I allow myself to eat what is being served but just a little. Not at every meal but once a day I will eat something not as healthy as I would like. I'm not gaining or over doing it but is that going to last? Has anyone just ate like a "normal person"? Have never Weighed or tracked my food like I do now.

"Eat like a normal person" ... boy, that's a loaded term.

Like you, I'm newly at goal. And what I've learned in the last year is that "normal persons" eat pretty badly. They eat lots of processed foods, fast food, boxed food, food laden with sodium, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, hormones, corn Syrup, etc.

These days, I'm working hard to eat a lot more veggies / fruits and plant Proteins (in addition to animal proteins) than I once did. Does that mean I don't eat what I'm served by a hostess at a dinner party or Fourth of July BBQ? Nope, of course not.

But the foods on my daily menus that I do control (by food shopping, cooking, ordering at restaurants) are considerably different than they were pre-op and certainly during the first six months of post-op.

WLS offers us a chance to greatly improve our nutrition. I'm pretty sure that what I DO eat from now on is going to be more important in maintaining my newly found health and lower weight than what I DON'T eat. By that, I mean that if I eat healthy foods that meet my body's nutritional needs I'll not crave the highly processed (high sugar/fat/salt) foods I used to eat too much of.

And don't misunderstand -- I wasn't a food binger. You don't have to be a food binger to get fat in America. You only have to starve your body of the nutrients it needs and wants. Doing that leads us to the over-processed food trough.

Gobble, gobble!

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