Alia
Silver Member
I've been thinking..... no comments please about cogs whirring etc
As alot of you will know I've had WLS done, twice actually. When you have a gastric bypass obviously afterwards you are on a very low calorie diet as you can't actually consume much at all. I remember checking with my dietician a month or so after surgery and told her I was at the most only managing 300 - 400 calories a day and she said that was fine and quite the norm for post bypass. The optimum time for weightloss is the first year post surgery. So by that they are saying that if you have a very low calorie diet you are going to lose weight faster.
My confusion is this.... when I go to slimming world and don't lose as much as I want to lose and my C looks over my food diary and says you are not eating enough, eat more and you will lose more...... why??? If its ok to have fewer calories to lose weight with Bypass surgery how come with other diets they can say your not eating enough to lose as much weight as you want to lose? I often hear people at group who've not had a loss or a loss as much as they wanted say that they've not been eating much that week so maybe thats why I did n't lose etc. I know we don't calorie count with SW but just using calories as an example.
Hope I've explained what I'm confused about well enough for you to follow - I know what I mean lol, hope you do too.
As alot of you will know I've had WLS done, twice actually. When you have a gastric bypass obviously afterwards you are on a very low calorie diet as you can't actually consume much at all. I remember checking with my dietician a month or so after surgery and told her I was at the most only managing 300 - 400 calories a day and she said that was fine and quite the norm for post bypass. The optimum time for weightloss is the first year post surgery. So by that they are saying that if you have a very low calorie diet you are going to lose weight faster.
My confusion is this.... when I go to slimming world and don't lose as much as I want to lose and my C looks over my food diary and says you are not eating enough, eat more and you will lose more...... why??? If its ok to have fewer calories to lose weight with Bypass surgery how come with other diets they can say your not eating enough to lose as much weight as you want to lose? I often hear people at group who've not had a loss or a loss as much as they wanted say that they've not been eating much that week so maybe thats why I did n't lose etc. I know we don't calorie count with SW but just using calories as an example.
Hope I've explained what I'm confused about well enough for you to follow - I know what I mean lol, hope you do too.