Post surgery, eating enough?

ChelzFit

I am 5 days out from breast aug/lift. Before I was working out daily, getting 13 thousand steps and eating 2400 a day. I am 5’7 133 pounds. I was eating to maintain and plan to continue. I won’t lie, I have a fear of gaining now that I’m down. I reset my goals to maintain and I am at 1,680 being sedentary. For the past 5 days I have been eating 1700 calories with barely any activity and making sure I’m drinking enough fluids. I have noticed the more I try to do things this past day I get lightheaded and I’m worried about not eating enough to recover but I don’t want to eat too much to gain. I’m off all meds except for a muscle relaxer. It’s only been 5 days so I’m hoping my body is still adjusting and that’s why I’m lightheaded.

harper16

Could the muscle relaxers be causing the dizziness, or from coming off the other meds?

kshama2001

ChelzFit wrote: »

I am 5 days out from breast aug/lift. Before I was working out daily, getting 13 thousand steps and eating 2400 a day. I am 5’7 133 pounds. I was eating to maintain and plan to continue. I won’t lie, I have a fear of gaining now that I’m down. I reset my goals to maintain and I am at 1,680 being sedentary. For the past 5 days I have been eating 1700 calories with barely any activity and making sure I’m drinking enough fluids. I have noticed the more I try to do things this past day I get lightheaded and I’m worried about not eating enough to recover but I don’t want to eat too much to gain. I’m off all meds except for a muscle relaxer. It’s only been 5 days so I’m hoping my body is still adjusting and that’s why I’m lightheaded.

What are you supposed to be doing, activity-wise, and could you be over doing it?

I have very debilitating periods and when it's heavy get light-headed climbing ONE flight of stairs so accept that I have different normals depending on TOM.

If that's not it, it could be meds as suggested by PP, but best to check with doctor.

ChelzFit

I had a post-op appointment today and all looks good. Doctor said it could be caused by getting off the meds and just the surgery itself. I’m just anxious with wanting to make sure I recover but at the same time not gain a ton of weight!

PAV8888

Sounds ok, albeit a bit low. You're recovering from surgery. Even with zero activity lightly active calories would be appropriate. Surgery would be at least a 10%.... can be looked up

ebrookes73

Could be worth getting a blood check; you would've sustained some intraoperative blood loss and even a small quantity could be enough to tip you into anaemia if your haemoglobin wasn't very high to start with. Feel better soon!