low carb low fat diet ??

[Mrb1807 39]

Everyone is different, and many nutritionist have different plans...My post weight guide from the Dr and nutritionist is : Calories below 1000, Low fat, low carb.

So I keep a food journal , And I just did this : I averaged my Protein, Fat, Carb, Calorie intake over the last 40 days : These are my results :

Protein 81.6 Fat 23.6 Carbs 38 Calories 731

So what do yall think ? Any suggestions ? Hints ? Advice ?

[mae7365 372]

I wish I was as disciplined to keep such great food records!!! And from your weight loss, it is clearly working for you.

How do you log your food? MyFitnessPal or some other app?

[RickM 1,734]

That looks just fine. Your Protein might be a touch low for a guy, but in the ballpark overall (programs often have numbers like 60-80g for women and 80-100g for men, but generally men need a bit more owing to our typically greater lean mass/musculature.) I was aiming for 100-105 for the lean mass that I had and was trying to maintain, but my program was fine when I was at 90+, wanting me to add more veg at that point (which was only a couple of weeks out.) Things aren't all that precise in the nutrition world, so ballpark is usually fine!

Actually, the "low carb, low fat" part is rather redundant, as any of our post op diets are by default low carb and low fat if we keep to our typical protein goals and keep the calories in a sensible range for weight loss (usually 1000 calories or less). People often get caught up in some of the magical macro limits or ratios promoted by some of the popular fad diets, but those just don't make any sense in our bariatric world. They might make sense (but usually don't) against a typical American/Western diet of 3-4000 calories, 300+g carbohydrates and 150+g fats, but our WLS and early post op restriction takes care of that.

Tracking your intake is great, as that gives you a reference point of what you are doing and how that relates to what you may do in the future, and can help point out some of those "WTF - that's so not worth the calories" moments. I basically controlled to my protein and calorie goals, and worked to get as balanced and healthy a diet within the non-protein side, which in retrospect turned out to be a rough caloric split between fats and carbohydrates, though that wasn't a specific goal.

As a side note, I found the tracking data to be particularly useful in finding my maintenance point after getting to goal weight, as it told me how many calories I was consuming in those final months, and relating that to my loss rate during that time, gave me a ballpark figure on where I should be to keep my weight stable - much better than any of those online calculators as this was based on real world data on...me!

Good luck on your continued progress.