[FONT="]Once you are at 'goal' do you have to choose foods dense in calories – not crap - in order to maintain your weight?
With the stomach pouch being so little it's perfect to help with weight loss, but I can't help thinking how it works when you need to adjust to a weight maintenance food intake.
Being very heavy and quite tall, my dietician adjusted my eating plan so that I was eating around 2000 - 2500 cals a day. Since sticking to this plan religiously, I've lost 8stone since I started my weight loss program last Aug - about a stone a month.
I know that as my bodyweight comes down my food intake will lessen in order to continue losing weight, however, even at goal, for my height and build I am going to need to get around 3000cals to maintain my basic metabolic rate - less if I'm not being so active.
When I have read posts about people only having around 800cals per day, I feel nervous about my imminent bypass surgery as I think I would be doing myself harm on such a small intake, regardless of the absence of hunger.
Even though I have mentioned calories by way of food intake, I really do not count them as I have been focusing on protein intake and portion control. I only weigh myself monthly too as I can become obsessed with weight if I'm not careful and end-up falling into the trap of having the scales dictate my happiness.
This is a very premature question as I haven't even had my op yet! My bypass date is 21st March next Thursday. I’m currently on the liver diet so my thinking is a little all over the place and I seem to be anxious and excited in equal measure. [/FONT]:sigh:
