share your guidelines, please??!!

Hi all, I'm hoping you folks will be willing to share your nutrional guidelines -- my surgeon has pretty much provided no info for me -- specifically what I'm trying to find out: Daily recommended counts for: -protein -carbs -fat -calories I haven't posted in a while, things have been crazy busy here. I am down 78 pounds since 6/29 and very pleased with that -- have just come off a 4-week plateau where I swore this surgery wasn't working for me, LOL. Self-doubt!! I hope everyone is doing well. -BJ 300/224/150??

Hi Barbara, Protein -- 50-60 grams a day Carbs Fat -- no more than 30 grams a day Calories 800-1200 calories No Carb requir... just told to eat my protein FIRST then if there is room I can eat other stuff. Carbs tend to make you crave more carbs so you want to be careful. I was also told to get my protein from real food and not protein drinks because liquid goes through us so fast that we end up hungery faster. Good Luck!

Hi Barbara, My guidelines at this point is to get a minimum of 60 grams of protein, calories to be around 1000-1200. Don't worry about fat or carbs. We can't eat enough of these if we concentrate on protein. I must have at least 64 oz of water too!

I had surgery on June 18 at the BARIX clinic in Columbus Ohio and have lost a total of 80 lbs. My doctor gave me the following guidelines: Daily recommended counts for: PROTEIN---65-70 grams a day CARBS---- no guidelines except see the sugar guidelines below.....*** FAT--- no more than 7 grams per meal ( i eat 3 meals and 3 snacks a day) this equals about 42 grams per day CALORIES---no guidelines ***HE Also added SUGAR guidelines tho....SUGAR---no more than 2 grams per serving, if the grams listed are higher then the 2 grams then i look at the first 5 ingredients, as long as sugar, high fructose corn syrup or any other type of processed sugar is not in the first 5 ingredients I can go ahead and have it, as long as the food meets the other requirements above. (example light yogurt is high in sugars, but I can still have it because it is a natural sugar) 64 oz. FLUID a day: preferably water first.( no carbonation for the first 6 months) RULE OF THUMB TO FOLLOW for success: PROTEIN first, & FLUIDS, then EXERCISE after that you are well on your way to success... Good luck!! Hope this helps!

-protein~~ atleast 90 grams a day -carbs~~less than 100 -fat no guidelines...jus****ch it -calories~~800-900