Calorie counting.

[Goodsoulette]

I eat between 1300 and 1500 calories a day and no more than 25 gs of fat. The calorie part is for a slimming diet and the extra low fat is partly for gallstones.

I am happy with my weight loss in the last few weeks but I have been relatively active. Lets say on days where my activity level drops to minimum, eg gallstones playing me up and knackers me out. So I will do nothing more than walk from the kitchen to the bathroom and to the sitting room, is 1300 - 1500 calories too much for weight loss?

[DONNAKEBABUK]

Hi Goodsoulette.

I saw a Dietician/Nutritionalist the other day at my local hospital having had GB Surgery and have lost weight far too fast (10 stones in 9 months). This is way too much apparently and she advised me that a calorie controlled diet of 1500 calories a day should lose me about 8 - 9 lbs a month and that this is the right way to do it. She didnt mention any exercise although I have recently started exercising for the Run for Life in July.

I have lost the 10 stoones WITHOUT exercise because prior to the weight loss I had back problems.

I am no expert but she didnt mention exercise as well as the 1500 calories a day.

I am not sure tht this will help but I am just sharing with you what I have been told by a qualified dietician/nutritionalist.

Good Luck. Katie. x

[bensmum]

Hi goodsoulette
Having had gallstones I am entirely in sympathy there! On the days when the problem flares up do you actually manage to eat anything? I ask because it used to make me physically sick and for a couple of days afterwards I felt dreadful.
The first answer was sensible - I have been told that 1500 calories should see a gradual reduction in weight but exercise was not mentioned. I aim at about 1200 per day and it will usually pan out at 1500!

[Goodsoulette]

No Bens mum, I hate the eating after it but that makes my body crash and I know it has me craving sugar so I end up eating oranges and walnuts. I have found that raw foods after an attack seem to be ok, as does cracked bulgar.

Thanks for the answers though. Much appreciated.

Katie that sounds like a phenomenal life change, I hope you are coping ok with the weight loss, it must seem very strange.

[DONNAKEBABUK]

Dear Good Soulette.

Yes it has been a bit of a shocker to be honest but I am just about coping with it. I didnt ever think I would have problems buying clothes once I got to an off the peg size but I had to start exploring other shops like New Look, Wallis, Gap and so on, rather than racing into Evans or Ann Harvey, grabbing the first black 28 - 30 thing I could see and running back out again once I had paid for it. Shopping was a problem and still is a bit. My friend laughed her socks off the other day when I showed her a nice brown pair of combats i had bought in New Look and then a size 18 sweater that the two of us could have got into. I feel fat these days though, although when I was 22 stones, I saw a thin person in the mirror.

I couldnt walk last year, this year however, I am training for the Run for Life. It is amazing BUT NOT EASY I have to add. It is painful but nothing in life that is worthwhile is easy is it.

Good luck with your weight loss and IGNORE MEDIA ! It is TOSH !

Just eat healthy, hearty meals and you will be fine with a bit of exercise here and there.

Take Care.

katie. x

[Ice.Maiden]

Wow Donna - congratulations hun!!!!! xx