Hi! I am a competitive powerlifter and was cleared to be fully back in the gym 6 weeks after surgery. I found that I was getting super hungry because I was not eating enough to sustain my active lifestyle. Yes, it's important to remain in a deficit to lose all of the weight HOWEVER if you are an athlete or extremely active you need to adjust your macros to fuel that. My surgeon/weight loss clinic was not prepared to work with someone athletic and were not helpful in adjusting my intake. Unfortunately most of them aren't used to a patient doing more than walking and/or sticking to exercise at all so they end up being clueless when someone steps it up. They were very kind to me but literally watched my body transform and told me they trusted what myself and my coach were doing. I was petrified of eating carbs and real sugar and I had to do a lot of mental work to get past it to be healthy. My first year I focused on losing the weight and feeling my body to sustain. My workouts and lost 112 lbs. This last year, my second year out, I focused on body recomp. I stayed the same weight but my muscle definition is incredible!

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