Calories, Carbs & RNY - help long timers!
on 5/19/17 6:10 pm
I could have written this exactly. EXACTLY.
I am also 3.5 years out and my numbers are the same. I eat 800 to 900 calories a day (over 951, I begin to slowly gain), 20 to 35 carbs, and 80 to 100+ protein.
I am so sick of normie/skinny NUTS/Dieticians giving **** advice to bariatric patients. I swear, most of them are clueless.
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"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat
Ugh. I get frustrated when I see things like that.
Old school that diabetics need carbs. Horrible advise IMO.
I would do as you are doing, and next time - when they tell me things like that - I'll smile, nod, tell them "that interesting, I will think about it".. Then continue doing what I am doing.
I am lucky that most docs I see understand and read most current studies.
Btw - read "Dr Bernstein diabetics diet solution" (not sure about spelling) . Great book. Most of it is free on line.
You have great numbers, you are losing weight- unless any of that change - I would not change a thing that you do.
Great work. Congratulations!!
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
I ate more carbs and calories than many bariatric patients from the get-go, but I didn't go over 1000 kcal a day until I was about a year out (I did 1000-1200 from the one year point until I got to maintenance (at about 18 months out)).
I never did ultra-low-carb, but I rarely went over 100 grams a day (and I was often under 80) while I was in weight loss mode.
I currently eat 1500-1700 kcal/day, but I'm two years out and have been in maintenance for awhile.
Yogurt and cheese are OK. I eat sweet potatoes sometimes too - or at least a little. I avoid potatoes at all costs - as well as other white carbs.
Your current 800-1000 kcal a day sounds fine. I was in that range from about six months to one year out.