4 years post op and have regained - HELP!

If you are a woman, it should let you submit with a minimum of 1000 calories, 1200 for a man. If you don't eat that much in a day, you can either use the "Quick Add" feature to add in a couple hundred meaningless calories, or go into the food database and search for "Generic 100 calorie block" and add however many of those you need to get you over the minimum threshhold for the day. I like to do it that way -- the Generic 100 Calorie Block then shows up in my list of frequently added foods and it is super easy to include in my daily diary. There are ways of getting around MFP stupidity

Ha haa! Thanks for that info! :-)

I suggest using MFP to determine how many calories (and what foods) you intake now and then create a 500 calorie/day deficit to lose 1 lb per week. 1000 calories per day deficit to lose 2lbs per week, etc. As Gwen said, go lower carb and upping your protein will increase satiety in a way that carbs cannot.

You should not use calories burned during exercise against calories consumed to determine how much you can eat, they should remain an independent number. Determination should be about food consumed, only. I ignore the stats on my Garmin fitness tracker where it subtracts activity calories from consumed calories to give me net calories per day.

Personally, I tend to lose weight if I go under 1000 calories per day, others do better in the 800-900 cals per day range.

Thanks a bunch! Yes, I am already on MFP and am trying to use all the resources I can to get back to where I was. We are about to go on a family vacation to the beach and this time last year, I was not ashamed to be in my bathing suit. I am pretty embarrassed now.

Your current weight is 219 so you need to take in at least 2190 calories to keep from losing.

To lose one pound a week, cut 500 calories a day to 1619. To lose two pounds a week, cut to 1119 a day.

I never factor in the calories burned through exercise, but it does increase my loss, so I do as much exercise as possible.

To make the Fitbit work the best for you, you need a smart scale. Buy one that measures weight, BMI, body fat, muscle, water weight and bone density. Track not just your weight but all of those things. I find it interesting that when I lose weight, my body water content goes higher.

I concentrate on the muscle mass and body fat measurements. I want fat to go down and muscle to increase. That takes a lot of weight bearing exercise.

You have 36 pounds to lose. You will lose quicker in the beginning and should have that off in a few months and be back to your low weight this fall.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Oh I forgot to mention that I recently bought one of those Smart Scales and have all of the things on it that you mentioned. I cannot wait to see the numbers move so I can see how it really works.

I've been on Cymbalta in the past (I have bipolar) and also gained weight on it. It sucks! So I totally sympathize.

At 4 years post-op, I'd suggest shooting for somewhere around 1000 calories per day, 80g protein, and under 40g carbs. During the immediate post-op phase we can get by on 600 - 800, but you'll need a bit more than that since your sleeve has fully healed and matured.

Exercise is great, but the majority of your loss is going to come from changes in diet. You can drop 100 calories from an hour of exercise, but you can drop far more calories by changing your eating habits.

You can do this! I believe in you!

I use the fitbit app for tracking my food. It won't let me set 800 cals as a goal, but it does track amazingly well.

I regained 97 pounds of my loss over the 8 years following my surgery. Since 15OCT16, I have lost 73.6 pounds of regain and am back in the clothes I was wearing after my surgery in 2009.

I've been eating 700 to 1200 calories a day. More towards the 700-900 side. I've been lifting 3 days a week and kicked up my cardio in march to five to six days a week. Carbs as low as I can. I don'****ch fat too closely, but I don't add extra either. At least 100g protein a day.