Hello everyone. First post to this sub. Just a general question, looking for thoughts, ideas, comments. I'm having the gastric bypass surgery the end of September. I made this decision after a decade of losing a good amount of weight and then putting it back on. I'm on the "smaller" end of obese with a BMI of 37.
Anyways, one of the requirements is to meet with a dietician. She brought up something that I didn't realize could happen. She said if you get to your goal weight of 150-160, you'll have to eat far fewer calories than a person who's always weighed that much and was never obese.
I figured we were talking 200-300 calorie difference and that gap would close after years of maintaining the same weight. I thought the body would accept this as it's new weight and change the set point. (Side note: I've always thought of set point as a pseudo science but both the dietician and surgeons talk about it as absolute fact)
However, my dietician said most of her patients even five years out eat only 800-1100 calories a day to maintain! Is that biggest loser study right after all? The only difference I can see with biggest loser and weight loss surgery patients is the weight comes off rapidly compared to someone that lost 1 lb a week. But my surgeon also says the weight loss surgery patient and those that lose weight the traditional way will still have to maintain weight at a much lower calorie deficit.
So I'm just curious what you all think about this. It's definitely new news to me and I'm trying to wrap my head around it. It won't be a deal breaker because at the end of the day I've talked to so many post op people and they all say it doesn't matter, you don't feel like eating anyway and eating becomes a chore. They're mindframe is it doesn't matter if it's 800 or 2000 calories to consume it's all a chore just the same.
Thank you
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