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Just curious to see on average how many calories are you guys consuming daily? How far out are you? I am 3.5 months out and get about 850 calories.

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For the first six months I stayed under 800 calories. For 6 months until goal, I stayed under 1100 calories. So it sounds like pretty similar to what you are doing.

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Great question! You read my mind. For the past 4 months I have not really kept a strict record. But I believe I started at 400 calories right after surgery and I think I'm up to 1000-1200 on more days than not now. Crazy, but it looks like that might be too many calories for me to loose even 1 lb a week. Exercise is sporadic, not consistent, so that may be an issue as well. I feel like I'm at a point where I really have to reevaluate the calories as well as the Protein in order to continue the rate of weight loss I had before. I didn't want to have to track everything, but it looks like I will be more successful if I do now.

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At 11 months i had hit goal and my doctor actually thought i looked sickly and wanted me to gain about 10 lbs....i eat about 2200 calories a day and have managed to gain 10 lbs in the last 3 months...dialing back to around 2000 now

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I'm just at 5.5 months and still average 800 per day. Also, my pouch hasn't seemed to change to accommodate any more than 1/2 c of food at a meal. One bite too many and I'm foaming. Hence, I eat one bite short of it.

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I am 1.5 years out and eat 12-1500. Maintains my 165 weight. I am 5 foot 8.

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I'm 2 months post op, and up until 3 days ago I was between 5-600. I went from 700, to 800, to 900 the past 3 days and am up .8 pounds. It's def because I'm eating 3 Quest bars as Meal Replacements instead of real food :(. They're so yummy, but today I'm back to real food and will only use a Quest bar in case of emergency.

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Almost a year out and I have just started hitting between 8-900 calories a day.

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In the early weeks, the amount of calories usually correlates with how far out you are.

1-3 Weeks: 200-300

4 Weeks: 400-500

6-8 Weeks: 600-800

I was at about 800-900 until about 6 months. Then I stalled out, and went up to 1000. That did the trick. At 2+ years out, I maintain on 1200-1300 and seem to gain anything over that (Boo!) When I need to lose a few pounds, I go back down to 800 and that works.

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I'm 8-900 most days at 9 weeks out. Some days I go up to 1100. No idea how you all keep your calories so low!

My biggest fear is that I will screw up my metabolism and have to maintain at 1000 calories or lower when I am done losing weight.

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I am 3.5 months out and keep mine at 1200 per day

I workout everyday so needed the extra

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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