How many carbs is your surgeon allowing you to eat a day? Mine never told me.

For me pre-op it is 45-55 per day

I was never given a guideline for carbs or calories, just protein. I thin the idea is that, by getting my 100 grams of protein a day, there isn't much room left for carbs.

Ditto what @@JamieLogical said.

I was never given a guideline for carbs or calories, just protein. I thin the idea is that, by getting my 100 grams of protein a day, there isn't much room left for carbs.

Jamie, that is an awesome way of looking at it!! That seriously made a world of sense to me and brought it in perspective to me.. I have my 2 week pre-op coming up and surgery on 29th.. Good timing for me to see ur post. Thanks

I was never given a guideline for carbs or calories, just Protein. I thin the idea is that, by getting my 100 grams of protein a day, there isn't much room left for carbs.

Jamie, that is an awesome way of looking at it!! That seriously made a world of sense to me and brought it in perspective to me.. I have my 2 week pre-op coming up and surgery on 29th.. Good timing for me to see ur post. Thanks

That's why they tell us to always eat protein first. If we fill up on the protein we need, we won't eat the carbs we don't need.

My NUT (post-op) says I just need equal to or less than my protein. Some NUTs allow greater carbs than protein. I have always tried to stay around 50-55g carbs and done well with that. I am recently trying to increase my calories to closer to 1000 and it breaks down as 105g protein / 75g carbs and 30g fat. I don't always stick to that (I tend to go over on fat and less carbs).

My pre-op diet is less than 20 grams per day.