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Calories - how many do you eat?

kcarlson0814
on 10/6/12 1:58 pm - CA

RNY on 09/10/12

I just starting tracking my calories, how many do you eat a day?

HW: 300 / Lapband Low: 247 / RNY: 9/10/12

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 10/6/12 2:04 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

I was never told to count anything but protein, and I stopped tracking food before I was 9 months out, but I track for two days a couple of times a year just to make sure my protein/fat/carb percentages are where I want them. Based on that, though, I eat 1200 - 1400 calories a day (and I eat about the same way at 5 years out that I did at 1 year out... a few more carbs, and maybe slightly bigger meals, but that's about it).

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

rynbiz
on 10/6/12 2:15 pm - Surprise, AZ

MAYBE 800 MY DOCTOR WANT 1000 THERE JUST NO WAY i CAN EAT THAT MUCH MY POUCH IS ONLY TWO MONTHS OLD

Calla Lily
on 10/6/12 2:40 pm

RNY on 01/23/12

I average 1000 a day

RNY 01/23/12, HW 265, CW 115, Height 5'6"

Annasbell
on 10/6/12 3:24 pm - Arcadia, FL

RNY on 09/12/12

I had my RNY right around the same time you did. I don't count calories, just protein, but myfitness pal keeps track for me: around 600 right now.

RNY (lap) 9/12/2012 | Michel Murr | SW243 | 5'6"

RonSudol
on 10/6/12 10:50 pm - NJ

I must be a fat f*ck than.. because im eating around 1450..

   ---------------(Starting Weight - 365) ------------ (Current Weight - 165) ------------

marianthelibrarian
on 10/6/12 10:58 pm

On October 7, 2012 at 5:50 AM Pacific Time, RonSudol wrote:

I must be a fat f*ck than.. because im eating around 1450..

Hardly! First, you're a man. Second, you work out like crazy. You should be eating more calories than what some of the rest of us are!

I'm in the 600-800 range at 2 months post-op. I do NOT work out like crazy. Maybe someday!

Lapband 4/2005: 342HW, 202LW
RNY 7/30/2012: 292HW, 276SW

Calla Lily
on 10/7/12 12:23 am

RNY on 01/23/12

I was just thinking that for myself too! I drink 400 to 500 just in 4 cups of protein/skim milk powder per day, plus my real food on top of that. I guess if I just switched to only water I'd be down to 600 a day, but then my protein intake would be so low! Like even in my fist weeks out I had 8 cups of liquid protein powder a day which would be at least 800 cal. I think you and I have had really great steady results of weight loss, so I guess as long as it works for us on higher calories we must be fine :) but like I say, even my first few days out, I was already at the very least 800 to 1000 cal per day. I was never told to count my calories tho, only to get 70 to 90g of protein at least per day, and I don't know how else to get that much with less calories?

RNY 01/23/12, HW 265, CW 115, Height 5'6"

Larry Wassmann
on 10/6/12 11:16 pm - Lacey, WA

RNY on 05/09/12

Started at 500 by NUT and surgeons. Now they have me up to 900 at 5 months. I will get more soon, I think.

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MrsLitch
on 10/6/12 11:43 pm - Morris, IL

RNY on 06/04/12

At my 3 mo visit I asked the doc about this as I was lucky to get in 400-500 a day he told me I need to be at 800, Another month has gone by and I'm still around 500 most days. When I really push myself and eat off plan I can get to 800 but those aren't always the healthiest choices so I'm struggling with calories still.