calorie intake with exercise

Hi Laura - just curious, did you exercise at all after your WLS?  if so, how often and for how long and at what intensity?  thanks. 

Hi Jessie,

I am struggling to get back down to my goal weight. I don't know if I my recommendations will help but our OH friends had suggested that at 1500 intake and 500-800 in calorie burn I was not creating a big enough deficit to make a difference and loose the extra weight I had gained back. (this is a great sight to understand the science of the calorie burn through fitness http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/caloricexp.html). 

The past week I have kept the calorie burn the same but have reduced my intake to 1200 calories a day. I am not counting any fitness (even though I'm working my ass off!!) the 1200 is the total intake of food. I am not going to be weighing myself until June 26th but if I remember ill update here. 

And just a note - "scale" victories are one thing but so are "dress size"...and how you actually feel! I have put on 15 pounds since Aug 2014 but my waist and dress size is exactly the same size and I've lost an inch on my hips...so I'm not totally sure where the fat went (wish on my boobs but sadly not)... but I suggest taking you're measurements too to keep track of the progress. 

Good luck! 

thank you so much thats what I was trying to figure out and maybe ill give it a shot and lower my calories back to 1200 and see what that does

can someone please respond that actually counts calories or give me an example of what their daily intake levels are instead of just dispute how many calories I am burning if I want to be around 1200 calories a day do I add what I eat then minus calories burned and want that final number at 1200

We all count our calories.  It's not the effort you are putting in at the gym. It's what you put in your mouth.  Exercise is great but if you are eating to much it doesn't matter. 

I think what everyone is trying to tell you, is that formerly fat people eat X calories to stay formerly fat. Period.

Exercise burn just doesn't count.

X cals for weight loss, or X+y cals for maintenance. Period. 

Unless you are working out 8hrs a day at competitive sports levels, Z never gets added to X+y to compensate.

Just ... Never.

It doesn't matter how much other people eat, or how much other people think you should be eating. Do you know how much you are eating now? If you are maintaining, losing, or gaining, you have your answer, and can adjust as needed.

And if you aren't weighing your food and tracking every bite, it doesn't matter. It's all just random guessing, and you can easily be off by 50%, and maybe a lot more.

I allow 10 calories a day to maintain each pound. So 160 pounds needs 1600 calories a day.

To maintain eat 2100 calories on gym days and 1600 calories on non-gym days.

To lose a pound a week, you need to cut 500 calories a day. That would be eating 1100 on non-gym days and 1600 on gym days. If you did not eat back your exercise calories than you would lose an additional half pound a week.

Eating 1100 on three days and 1600 on four days should result in losing ten pounds in ten weeks. Eating 1100 every day would get you a ten pound loss in seven weeks.

Weigh daily and be sure that you do go down a pound at the end of the week.

As Grim pointed out, unless you are weighing, measuring and tracking everything you eat, it is very difficult to pin point the exact calories that you are taking in.