Advice Getting Back On Track

My name is Jennifer and I had RNY in 2006.  I then had a beautiful son in 2008 and daughter in 2010 and found the Pregnancy After WLS forum to be very helpful and supportive.  Now I want to focus on getting back to goal (I need to lose 40-50 pounds).

I have very limited information from the RD at my surgeon's office, as well as information from the Internet and from forums here.  I thought a good plan would be the following:

1,000-1,200 calories (too much for weight loss, not enough?) 3 small meals plus 1-2 snacks Focus on protein (60 grams, 70 grams, 100 grams?) Followed by good carbs (preferably veggies and fruit) 30 g fiber Limit or eliminate sugar & refined carbs 64-100 oz water or calorie-free beverages No eating 15 minutes before or 30 minutes after a meal 30 minutes or more of exercise at least five days a week Weight lifting 3 times a week.   What am I forgetting? What else should I do? Is the above accurate?   I would appreciate ANY advice, reminders about "rules", etc. that you can provide from your own experience that would help me in this journey again.    Thank you!!!!   Jen

Oh, and sorry if I posted in the wrong forum...still finding my way around.  If there ia another forum I should ask my question in, please let me know :-)

Consider this:
800 calories per day
50% of calories from protein (100 grams)
Cardio 3x per week (30 mins)
Strength training 2x per week

Thanks for your input.

What you have listed as your plan is right in line with with my doc & Nut wanted me to follow on my post-op protocal @ the 6 months and after point ( note : at least 60g protein, but more will not hurt & protein helps your fullness feeling last ,so 80+ is even better - 30 grams of fiber would be great, I still don't get that much fiber a day @ almost 7 yrs, but definately shoot for it, cuz it will help with constipation - on cals, people with a decent metabolism have to delete 3500 from your diet to lose 1 lb, personally my metabolism is , so that theory does not really work to well for me, also I tried eating 850 cals a day or less for a month and did not see any benefit in lower lbs on the scale, I think cuz my body simply thought I was starving it at 850 and thus refused to budge, I'm still trying to keep it under 1200 a day, I know my maintenance cals is between 1350 & 1500 a day of good food choices & low refined carbs )

You can definately get back on track Jen, wish you the best, sounds like a pretty good plan to me...

Oh Yeah,

Also there is a Back on Track Together Forum (BOTT)

Thanks for your help, Alesia.

 I can't find the BOTT forum listed under "forums."  Where is it?

http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/backontracktogether/

Here's the link!