Calories after gastric bypass

Hi Babsinga, het gaat goed met mij, dank je wel!

I'm so glad I found you guys! I really am going to take a close look at my calorie intake and get it down to 900-1000, see what it does and increase my protein intake.

You need 10 calories a day to maintain a pound. To lose one pound a week, cut 500 calories a day and be 3500 calories or one pound down at the end of the week.

You should be losing on 1200 calories a day. If calories are not carefully tracked it is easy to be eating more you think.

But I'm not losing on 1200 calories. Not on 900, not on 1300-1500. Everything seems stuck.

I track everything in My Fitness Pal, even the oil I bake my meat in, or the butter on my bread.

There should be no bread and butter...

Well, according to my dietician there should be. What do you eat in stead of butter?

What do you eat in a day?

What I am supposed to eat in a day, following their guidelines:

3 slices of wholegrain bread

2 slices of meats

1 slices of cheese

lowfat margarine

110 grams of meat, fish, chicken

150 grams of vegetables (2-3 spoons)

2 potatos or 1 spoon of rice or pasta or legume

1 spoon of liquid cookingproduct

4 glasses of dairy (600 ml)

2 pieces of fruit

1500 ml of fluids (including dairy)

This contains around a 1000 calories. But I wasn't losing. So they said I wasn't eating enough and that I had to increase to 1200-1500. But reading her make me think what they're saying makes no sense at all...

Butter is fine. Bread is not. Fat is good. Carbs are not.

I choose not to eat fruit, breads, rice, potatoes, pasta, grains --- that is how I lost 200+ pounds. It's also how I maintain it.

what is a day's menu look like for you?i lost 122# with no exercise and have maintained the loss for seven years. I will gain if I go over 900 calories regularly, even now.

i lost and maintain by eating meat, eggs, full fat dairy, mile and cheeses and very low csrb, eating only non carbs vegetables sparingly.

it doesn't really matter how many calories someone else needs to lose, as our needs are all different.

Those of us on this site who have been successful, mostly eat very high protein and very very low carb, often necessary for the rest of our lives.

At my hospital they are very fond of carbs in all sorts of ways: potatos, rice, pasta, bread. I try to skip it, because it makes my fibromyalgia more severe.

But meat is no problem. Dairy gives me dumpings, so I'll have goat milk and goat cheese every other day.

Thanks for your reply. It helps.

Dear Lucy --

I also have fibromyalgia... and you ARE 100% RIGHT. Carbs increase my pain immensely.

Trust what you know is right. Ditch the carbs and the dairy (I don't eat a ton, but like you, goat's milk/cheese is wonderful!)

I completely concur with Daisy's post.

I gain on 1200 calories a day.

Anything over 951 calories and I am slowly gaining weight. -- At 1200, I am rapidly gaining weight.

How do I know? I have meticulously weighed, measured and logged everything that goes into my mouth for over 1300 days.

I am 5'5' (1.65 m) tall and have lost 220 pounds (99.79 kg). I have been maintaining for two of those years. I am going on four years in December.

I maintain my weight of 128 to 138 pounds (58.5 - 62.6 kg) eating 900 to 1000 calories per day. I have to eat fewer than 900 calories to lose. I lose best between 700 and 800 calories.

I still haven't ever eaten 1500 calories.

I would say the proof is in the pudding. You aren't losing -- so it's too many calories for you, too.