Calorie intake

Just curious what everyones daily calorie intake is? I'm post op almost 3 weeks and trying to decide if I am eating too much or too little. When I drink protein shakes sometimes I hit 1000 calories but on other days I barely reach 500. Just wondering what normal is?

My center is not concerned with calories.  Instead, we are instructed to concentrate on getting a minimum of 60-80 grams of protein, 60 being the minimum.

My place has always said to focus on high protein low sugar which I do but I was just curious about calories as well. 

I'm about two months in.  I was also told not to worry about calories. But your intake is very similar to what mine was.  I had days where it was 350ish.  Everything worked out fine.  I think youre fine.

Thank you! My question was more just for curiosity reasons than anything else. I really appreciate you taking time to reply 

Every centre is obviously different, but mine gave us sample menus and said 60-80g of protein, and to expect that our calories would be about 650-800 from one month out until maintenance. Now I'm closer to 1,100-1,200 a day since I am past their goal.

Meg~

Perfect! Thank you for the info!

I don't know why programs tell their patients to ignore calories. It makes me pretty angry. CALORIES MATTER.

You need vitamins, you need protein, and you need a little fat. Your body cannot manufacture those essentials, so we must eat them.

But calories? We have lots of calories stored as fat. If you have 100 pounds to lose, you have about 350,000 calories stored in excess fat. Every calorie you eat means one less calorie you'll get rid of.

Keep the calories as low as you can while you're in these early stages. You'll be really, really thankful you did when things get harder in 6 months or a year, at best. And they will get harder. Much harder.

Leah

What it boils down to is, follow the instructions your center gives and you will be good.

Lots of people follow bad directions and get poor results. I've seen it many times.

You can't have good results without a good plan. The nutritional plans from many programs are aimed first at satisfactory healing, and secondarily at a mediocre 50-60% excess weight loss. I don't think most people would be satisfied with that.

Following guidelines for recovery and healing are great. Following poor guidelines for nutrition and weight loss is foolhardy.