Chocolate -- it makes perfect sense to me and it's so interesting you say that because I too have been eating more. I eat foods with high protein but it seems like every 2 hours I am hungry so I a know I am over doing it on the protein.

What's going on?

I too am still losing weight but in ounces -- not pounds -- but inches are dropping off.

My dietician only wants me to eat when I eat my meals and then be drinking fluids in between. Sometimes I do have a piece or fruit if I'm really, really hungry, but other than that, I don't. You need to be asking yourself, "Am I REALLY hungry or is it just my head telling me I'm hungry?" If you're not really hungry, you could fall back into bad habits and then regain weight.

Lucy

If I eat 3 (small) meals a day and two snacks, that's five times a day. I'm trying to eat at 3 hour intervals (since I'm not hungry) and most days I can only fit in 4 meals and maybe a protein drink. I think you just need to watch the quantities.

Yes it does make sense. I was going through the same thing...Not eating enough. I went for my 5 month post-op a few weeks ago and my NUT said I am not eating enough. I was like Lord I never thought I would hear any health professional tell ME that! LOL. So I also eat 5-6 times a day. And I think it is helping.

My Nut has me eating 5 times a day for life. 3 small meals and two snacks in between. I have been eating more of lately too. I was pretty much wiping out my caloric intake with exercize so a little more protein gets the scale moving.

That makes perfect sense. Better choice lead to a better body.
Shelley :o)

My nut has had me eating 3 meals a day and 2 snacks, snack between bfst and lunch and snack between lunch and dinner. I have been working out alot more and burning 300-500 cals a day so I have up'd my cals to around 1200 and try to get 100 grams of protein a day in. I don't usually eat my exercise cals but sometimes I do go over 1200 if I am hungry in the evening and have a small snack. I am almost 9 months post op from sleeve surgery. Had sleeve 6/11/12. Started at 270 2/1/12 lost 47 pre op and have lost 86 post op since total lost 133. My weight loss has slowed but I am at 137 so at this point I only want to loose about 2-5 more pounds and maintain. I made surgeon's goal in Nov. of 2012.
If you are exercising alot and burning off cals you do need to up your protein intake and cals intake so you will continue to loose. This is what my nut. and bariatric physical therapist both said. If you exericse more than 45 min a day at 5 months out you need to be at 1200. I recently up'd the cals I eat in Jan of this year when the gym I joined finally opened.
Good luck!

I am eating the same way and sometimes feel as if I am eating too much but I find that I feel better and yes my metabolism is much better by eating multiple times. One of my biggest mistakes pre-surgery was not eating all day and then going home and eating more than I needed to at the end of the day.

I'm still preop, but my NUT said to plan on eating about 5 times a day, once able, postop, to lose consistently as possible, we all hit stalls. And of course with the protein priorities as well.

And once I hit maintenance, for my size (I am 5' 10" ish and broad shouldered) I will find myself somewhere around 12 to 15 hundred calories (depending upon my workout schedule) a day. All sounds pretty reasonable to me... :) Of course, time will tell if it all works out this way!