Diet
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Please understand we cannot give medical advice here.
All we can do is tell you what we've gone through ourselves, and each of us has tried to follow their bariatric team's directions.
For example, many of us were advised to eat 60+ grams of protein and 64+ ozs of water daily. Daily movement/exercise rounds out the trifecta. Following those 3 things have led to successfully steady weight loss over the course of our post-surgery journey for many of us.
In addition, I try to avoid simple carbs as much as possible. These include mashed & fried potatoes, mac & cheese, white rice, bread, pasta, corn, most cereal, and sugary foods. All of these break down quickly in your body to give you quick energy. But if you don't immediately burn up those quick energy sugars, they are stored in the body as fat for fuel down the road.
A good rule of thumb for most of us is to get our 60+ grams of protein in throughout the day, consume vegetables and a small amount of fruit (also a high carb item, although the fiber is better than other simple carbs), a little bit of carbs and a small amount of healthy fat (nuts, avocados, etc.).
Try to avoid juice, any sugary drinks, or other high calorie foods and drinks, and the weight should begin to drop off.
You say your doctor said you aren't doing what you are supposed to do. Did he/she give you specific advice and suggestions? Please let us know, and we might be able to help, again not as medical professionals or experts, but as fellow travelers.
Ange6012
Member
Great information Karen, there is nothing more to add.
I was advised to have like you 60+ grams of protein,which is hard to do in tge beginning stages. My team told me protein drinks as supplements is going to be lifelong.
Stay away from bread rice and pasta. I added potatoes but will have a small amount now that I am 3 months post op.
The only thing I can add is log everything at this early stage that approaches those lips. Bariastic has a great logging system. Weigh and measure everything and follow your dieticians suggestions.
I was advised to have like you 60+ grams of protein,which is hard to do in tge beginning stages. My team told me protein drinks as supplements is going to be lifelong.
Stay away from bread rice and pasta. I added potatoes but will have a small amount now that I am 3 months post op.
The only thing I can add is log everything at this early stage that approaches those lips. Bariastic has a great logging system. Weigh and measure everything and follow your dieticians suggestions.
Lesa Marie
Member
During the first month and a half I couldn’t stand food so of course I lost quite a bit of weight but after that it started to slow where I wasn’t losing as much. At that point I realized that I had to either force myself to eat more or stop working out and burning the little calories off that I was consuming in a day. I chose to stop exercising lol. It actually worked too and I started losing weight fast again. The advice I had from the beginning from my nutritionist (NOT my surgeon) was to not count any calories, protein etc because she had found in her experience that patients were having to force themselves to eat more than they typically would just to get in a certain amount of whatever. I took that advice and ran with it because let’s be real, I didn’t plan on counting it anyway lol. I lost all my weight in the first 6 months and I’m now over a year out and have maintained. Maybe it would be a good idea to find a nutritionist that you like and can work with but trust me when I say they aren’t all the same but you’re allowed to be picky lol. Hope everything gets better for you!
Thank you, I wasn’t told how much protein to eat. I been having less than 700 calories a day. This does help a lot.
missyinacage
Member
Ask your bariatric surgeons office for a referral to a nutritionist who specializes in weight loss surgery. Most insurance requires pre-op meetings with a nutritionist and most programs have nutritionists attached to them.
You SHOULD have been given a post op diet along with protein and water guidelines. If you were, then follow it exactly. If you were not, ask for one.
There is a copy of one of our members post op plans in the resource section (posted by 3momchaos) that can give you a guide until you are given a specific plan by your program.
You SHOULD have been given a post op diet along with protein and water guidelines. If you were, then follow it exactly. If you were not, ask for one.
There is a copy of one of our members post op plans in the resource section (posted by 3momchaos) that can give you a guide until you are given a specific plan by your program.
I am two months post op and have a really hard time getting in my calories. I’m only getting between 300-500 calories per day. With portion size what it is how are you able to get in 1000 calories?
It took me until recently (5 months post op) to be able to get close to 1000 calories a day. I was pretty much around 600-800. I still usually fall around 800 but on "munchy" days end up around 1000.
I was worried my body was going to starve or something with such minimal calories but my Dietician was not worried about the calories at all as long as I was hitting my protein and water goals. He said the calories will slowly increase as you learn to eat again, and slowly you can eat more food. Sometimes that is 3 meals a day and sometimes you have to eat 5 times a day.
You can also eat more calorie dense food, like cheese which also has good amounts of protein.
You will get there, don't worry.