Week Twenty-two - A Calorie Prescription

I met with the nurse practitioner and the dietitian on Thursday to evaluate my progress – all good.  I was a bit taken aback by the ‘prescription’ of 1,300 to 1,500 calorie diet (the Optifast ‘maintenance’ diet).  They’re telling me this should lead to the 1 lb. per month loss that I wanted until I had built up a 5 lb. ‘cushion’ underneath my maximum or‘alarm weight’.  Since my weight loss had continued after Optifast but slowed down on the ‘maintenance’ phaseto 1 lb. per week from the 3 lb. per week during the active Optifast phase, I was expecting that I would be increasing to something like 1,800 calories per day.  Ok, well we’ll stay on the 1,300 – 1,500 diet for a while longer and  it and see what happens.

Oh, and apparently the bariatric team is talking about me as the ‘poster boy’ for the non-surgical weight loss program.  Not really sure what that means, but I guess it must be good, so I’ll take it.