So ok. Surgeon's diet ends after the 8th week. Now I face the real world. My calories go from 400-600 to 600-800. Will this 200 extra calories effect my weight loss...I'm exercising as much as I can...trying to work to get up to more, but will it no longer be enough? Is eating more calories good for me? I know it will make it easier to get more Protein in, especially real food Proteins. Am I just worrying too much? ....too emotional? Sigh.

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So ok. Surgeon's diet ends after the 8th week. Now I face the real world. My calories go from 400-600 to 600-800. Will this 200 extra calories effect my weight loss...I'm exercising as much as I can...trying to work to get up to more, but will it no longer be enough? Is eating more calories good for me? I know it will make it easier to get more Protein in, especially real food Proteins. Am I just worrying too much? ....too emotional? Sigh.

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You really should throw ol' diet mentality out the window. With the surgery, your physiology has changed. You're basically in starvation mode, and your body is using up muscle and glycogen for energy. With the diet mentality, upping calories is a bad thing. In the early weeks and months of WLS, it's necessary to keep our metabolism going and getting energy from fat stores as opposed to mostly muscle, hence weight loss. Also, believe it or not, too much exercise can be counter productive to weight loss when the calories are lower. So until you can get up to at least 900-1000, don't kill yourself. Do enough to get your heart rate up and build muscle. Otherwise you may stall often. As long as your calories are coming from mostly protein, it all works to equal weight loss. And upping calories as you progress in months is important to help set your metabolic rate, so when the time comes you aren't having to maintain on 600 calories the rest of your life!

So yes, more calories is good for you Your surgeon sounds like they know what they are doing.

Thanks. Everything you wrote makes sense. I guess the change of being off my very strict diet is scary. Now time to face the real world. Thank you for the encouragement.

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Thanks Babb's my point of reference for such will hit at holidays, since I'm still pre-surg but I'll take it to heart. And To

Rayolite you're a shining star to those coming into Bariatric land. Keep on keeping on *Rosey Posey

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Thanks Rosey. I am gonna "just keep swimming"....I feel better knowing I am on the right track

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