Diet adjustments AFTER lipo and tummy tuck??

[Radical Ice]

Can any of you advise on how to adjust a diet for someone who has lost 30 pounds through lipo and tummy tuck? My girlfriend has been training and watching her calories now for about 3 years and has reduced from 350 to 240 pounds... mostly by starvation and doing everything the "wrong" way. I met her and we adjusted her calories upward and got her weight training and into cardio and she firmed up a bit, but at 200 pounds, she had LOTS of loose skin hanging everywhere. Today she is having it all removed... I'm nervous, but it is what she has wanted for several years now. My question is, once she eventually resumes her weight training and diet, will we need to lower her calories for her new, lower bodyweight? We'll monitor and adjust every 1-2 weeks as usual, but if someone's experienced in this area, any advice whatsoever would be a nice jump-start. Also, any "secrets" for helping to accelerate or assist the scar healing would be great as well... not that we're in any hurry, but we realize that bodybuilders are usually light years ahead as far as supplements and injury treatments and any advice that most doctors don't yet offer or know about would help tremendously...
Thanks!

 

[spatts]

Calories shouldn't be based on total weight in the first place. You don't need to feed fat. She should've been going by her lean body mass all along.

 

[Puddles]

Radical, congrats for your girlfriend's achievement so far! Spatts knows nutrition, so listen to her. As for the scaring, Vitamin E after 2 weeks post-op internally and externally after the tape is removed from the stitches...which may be weeks away. Vitamin C should have been started already, and continued for a few weeks post-op. There are also prescription topical ointments to help minimize scaring, but the doctor should speak with you about that in time. Best wishes for her recovery...she's gonna be hurting! Don't let the pain meds wear off for the first week.

 

[Daisy_Girl]

You don't need to feed fat.

Tell that to MY fat. It's hungry all the time.

 

[Radical Ice]

Calories shouldn't be based on total weight in the first place. You don't need to feed fat. She should've been going by her lean body mass all along.

Hi Spatts,
Yes, we were going by lean body mass... with calipers, we figured at 240 pounds, she was right at 33% bf, or 160 lbm (she's 5'11"). We gradually went UP to 9xlbm (she was at a low 900 calories a day to start with, and the fat wasn't going anywhere, so we upped the calories and the cardio slightly over time and the weight started falling off again.) After a standstill at 200 pounds, we went to a Houston nutritionists that specializes in sports nutrition and he said there was only loose skin to contend with at that point, and not to drop calories any further, but to add slightly to the cardio and keep the weight training in place. He also suggested that she would be an "excellent candidate to have loose skin removed" -- and that's what eventually led us to the stage we are at today...
Thanks!

 

[spatts]

LOL @ daisy girl.

Radical Ice, I personally go no lower than 10x LBM for food. If I want more of a deficit than that, I work the extra food off (as opposed to not eating).

...but I'm a cow.

MOO.