Terrified: Eating too much 3 1/2 week out?

[ddlxray 21]

MarceMonster, my carb limit is between 30-40. That would be hard for me now. I'm only supposed to be eating Protein, no veggies or fruit. Do a milk/ instant Breakfast Protein Drink that is about 14 carbs.

So your Dr. Wants you to be max 40g of carbs per day? Yea, see I can eat fruit and veggies. I try to limit my carbs to 40g per day, because I know my body likes to hold onto carbs. Honestly though this goes against what the NUT at my surgeons office suggests, which is a MINIMUM of 60g per day. That just seems way too high. So I decided to try an experiment and "split the baby" by only counting Net Carbs instead of total carbs like I was counting. So this means that I am getting overall more carbs but I am limiting my Net Carbs to 40 or less per day. Hopefully, this works, if not I will go back to counting my total carbs.

Good luck. I go to office on Tuesday and hope to be able to eat veggies. But I'm not sure if I will be able to. Still can only eat about 2oz and have to have Protein first.

[dashofsunshine 876]

I am 9 months post op and still only eat 4-5 bites of food at a time. I'm still on 600 calories a day. I don't eat fruit or carbohydrates of any kind (except the occasional Beans in chili, or something like that). I'm frankly amazed that you are able to eat those particular foods, in those volumes, that often, at only 3.5 weeks out. I was still on purees at that point. I would definitely give your NUT a call.

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I am 9 months post op and still only eat 4-5 bites of food at a time. I'm still on 600 calories a day. I don't eat fruit or carbohydrates of any kind (except the occasional Beans in chili, or something like that). I'm frankly amazed that you are able to eat those particular foods, in those volumes, that often, at only 3.5 weeks out. I was still on purees at that point. I would definitely give your NUT a call.

Wow, only 600 calories a day at 9 months post op? Are you getting in all your Protein every day? That seems really low. What does your NUT say?

[Andrea2015 14]

I'm 3 weeks out and all I eat is 2 Protein Shakes "premier Protein " that's if they stay down and 3-6 bites of Beans or guacamole but I get fool so fast ....

[dashofsunshine 876]

I am 9 months post op and still only eat 4-5 bites of food at a time. I'm still on 600 calories a day. I don't eat fruit or carbohydrates of any kind (except the occasional Beans in chili, or something like that). I'm frankly amazed that you are able to eat those particular foods, in those volumes, that often, at only 3.5 weeks out. I was still on purees at that point. I would definitely give your NUT a call.

Wow, only 600 calories a day at 9 months post op? Are you getting in all your Protein every day? That seems really low. What does your NUT say?

I get 60 g of Protein every day, and yep, my NUT and my doctor both have me on 600-700 calories daily. I'm down 120 lbs and still dropping, so it seems to be going ok! Everyone is different, though

[Wendyfm 494]

At thirteen months out I'm eating 1,100 calories. At 3 weeks out I was just starting soft foods and eating around 700 calories.

[Andrea2015 14]

I'm at three weeks and I eat about 400-500 or less

[tcon 305]

I'm 3 weeks out and get between 550 and 650.

Edited August 20, 2015 by tcon

[SleevePerry 248]

Around the 6 week mark, my doc had me increase my calories to 1000/day. I'm at 10 weeks now, and am still keeping to that.

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

At 3 weeks out I was getting close to 800 calories.

Months 1 - 4 I aimed for 800.

Months 5-6 I aimed for 1,000.

Months 7-8 I aimed for 1,200.

(All this was on the advice of my bariatric PA who said if I ate too little for too long I'd teach my body how to survive on a starvation budget.)

Apparently, it worked. I reached goal in 8.5 months. In the last 4 months I've lost almost 10 more pounds and am maintaining that weight (141-143 lbs.) at 1600-1700 calories.

Obviously, everyone's advice, experience and results on this subject varies.

[MarceMonster 161]

At 3 weeks out I was getting close to 800 calories.

Months 1 - 4 I aimed for 800.

Months 5-6 I aimed for 1,000.

Months 7-8 I aimed for 1,200.

(All this was on the advice of my bariatric PA who said if I ate too little for too long I'd teach my body how to survive on a starvation budget.)

Apparently, it worked. I reached goal in 8.5 months. In the last 4 months I've lost almost 10 pounds more pounds and am maintaining that weight (141-143) at 1600-1700 calories.

Obviously, everyone's advice, experience and results on this subject varies.

How much weight did you have to lose? That's so awesome that you reached goal 8.5 months out. I am trying my best to reach goal within a year. I just had my two month check up last week and the Dr. said I was above average in my weight loss. I lost 33% of my excess weight, he said he usually doesn't see that until about month 4. I was so excited. I hope I do as well as you, congratulations!

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Marce, FYI, I'm 5'5".

I started exactly where you did: 235 pounds. I lost 19 pounds pre-op. Surgery day I weighed 216. I lost 66 pounds to goal (150 pounds). Then lost another 9 pounds -- was 140.8 morning before last -- during the last 4 months.

Oh -- and I'm nearly 70 years old.

I didn't lose fast, but the pace I lost at was just fine with me.