How many calories do you get in daily?

i kinda worried about the same thing too, as i used to get hypoglycemic really easily. i bought some chewable glucose tablets prior to surgery just in case. i've never had to open the bottle!

i couldn't tell you exactly why, but if if i had to make a semi-educated guess, it would be that when we consume lots of carbs, our blood sugar spikes, and then plummets. after the surgery, we consume so little food, and so few carbs, that we don't get the spikes in blood sugar that result in the plummets, so everything is a lot more stable.

i am one of those who does experience hunger since surgery, but the difference is that it's not a ravenous hunger like i would have before. i can ignore the hunger signals and not pass out, or get shakey, or overeat when i do finally eat. i try to eat something within the hour of first getting hunger signals though.

I lost most of my weight on 600-800 calories. I lost the remaining 20 lbs on 1,100 calories.

I now eat anywhere from 1,500 - 2,500 calories depending on my current goals.

700 calories a day and I am sl over 5 months out. For some strange reason, you do not get funny feeling, or weak or dizzy, or feeling faint, or any of those annoying pre-surgery, trying-to-diet-real-hard feelings with the VSG. I think the low carb thing is indeed the answer too. Good gravy, I must have been eating 100-200 grams of carb per day before surgery, now I am lucky if I have 30 grams. They used to say fat was the enemy, but now I know carbs have been the enemy.

I don't count my calories. My doctors only told me to concentrate on proteins and fluids. Even carbs they ok'd to be higher then what most people on this site are allowed. Something is going right. I hit goal in less than 5 months

That's so cool. Thanks for info. That would have been such a bummer to not be able to eat, but sick all the time from not eating. It's just amazing how this surgery can change your body so much.

I will rest much easier now knowing I won't probably feel ill from a lack of calories. I hadn't heard people complain about it too much on the site and I assume before surgery, most people probably would have felt ill on so few calories.

Thanks again, one more fear out of the way!! Ha! Ha!