I am 4 weeks out, how many calories should I be consuming?

I am down 25 pounds since surgery, but 20 of those were in the first 2 weeks, and I have only lost 5 pounds since I have moved to pureed and soft foods. While I am getting at least 60 grams of protein in, I am concerned that I am getting too many calories and too many carbs.  My averages for the last few days are: Calories:  735 Protein: 72 grams Carbs: 78 grams fat: 13 grams I admit that I do occasionally have something like tomato soup, that has no protein and is just carbs, but I just want something that tastes good and goes down easily. What kind of ratio of carbs to protein should I be shooting for when making a food choice? Thanks for you advice. Ginny

Please be patient with your weight loss.  Here is the breakdown based on what you included above: 72 gm Pro = 39% of your calories; 78 gms CHO = 72% of your calories and 13 gms Fat = 16% of your calories.   You are definitely getting in enough protein but as you said, something like tomato soup likely has a lot of sugar in it (corn syrup, etc.) but if you made it with nonfat milk and added a scoop of whey protein powder, this would taste good AND give you protein all in a great tasting bowl of soup.   In terms of ratios, there is really no hard and fast rules but as you know, protein is THE focus. Happy New Year!

Every surgeon/NUT seems to be different, so my advice would be to email them & ask. My goal/limit from 2 weeks through my 3 month check-up was 600 calories.  At my 3 month check-up, they increased my goal/limit to 700 to accomidate fruits/vegetables which they added to my diet at that time.   Some people are carb sensitve and do not lose if they do not cut their carbs.  A strict NET carb goal per day is 20 - 30.  Remember that is NET carbs only.  (Net carbs = all carbs - sugar alcohol - fiber) Your protein looks good for being just 2 weeks post-op.  That's great!   I totally understand about wanting something that goals down easy (and tastes good).  I gave in with KFC mashed potatoes in my first couple of weeks.  I got hollered at by my NUT at my 4 week check-up and didn't do it anymore.  (I'm not advocating KFC mashed potatoes so no flames please.)  However, I learned that if you want something that goes/stays down well early post-op, you DO have options that taste good and provide more protein (and less bad carbs). Like... Refried beans (have carbs, but not all bad and has a little protein too) Sugar free fudgsicles (believe it or not they do have protein and just a few net carbs) Healthy Choice cream of fill-in-the-blank-here soups (for variety - not very great for protein/carbs/etc) I'd be sure that I only ate 3 times a day (or however many times your NUT/surgeon tells you to eat) and only had 1 snack a day (or however many your NUT/surgeon let you have).  It is not so much about how FAST you lose the weight, but about forming good, healthy LIFE-LONG habits that will help you eventually get to a healthy weight AND STAY THERE - FOREVER! Don't get discouraged!  Email your NUT/RD/surgeon and ask them for daily guidelines!  (They should have given those to you, but sometimes they are reluctant to give goals/guidelines other than WHAT you can eat in the beginning because it is hard for some people to get in hardly ANYTHING - but that doesn't seem to be the case with you!  SO you should email them girl!  Tell them you want some #s and then start logging everything if you're not already!)