My weight loss by month as a LW

[southernlady]

Surgery 1/24/11 199.2
2/24/2011 177.4 (minus 21.8 lbs)
3/24/2011 165 (minus 12.4 lbs)
4/24/2011 156 (minus 9 lbs)
5/24/2011 151.2 (minus 4.8 lbs)
6/27/2011 148.2 (minus 4 lbs)
7/24/2011 143 (minus 4.8 lbs and reached 100% excess weight loss)
8/24/2011 140.2 (minus 2.8 lbs)
9/24/2011 136.2 (minus 4 lbs)
10/24/2011 134.2 (minus 2 lbs)
11/24/2011 134.8 (gained .6 lbs)
12/24/2011 133.6 (minus 1.2 lbs)
1/24/2012 133.8 (gained .2 lbs)
My lowest was 4/24/2012 at 121.8

 

[newanatomy]

That is freaking amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing that with us. It eases my mind a little bit. I am not a lightweight however, I am losing slower than a lot of people. It is scary to think that you will be one of the many to not see goal.

Doubts are always present. People cast doubt on your surgeon being a cookie cutter or you just have doubts about eating too much. It's a freaky deal!!

Thank God for you and this board!

 

[DuodenalSwitchaRoo]

That is freaking amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing that with us. It eases my mind a little bit. I am not a lightweight however, I am losing slower than a lot of people. It is scary to think that you will be one of the many to not see goal.

Doubts are always present. People cast doubt on your surgeon being a cookie cutter or you just have doubts about eating too much. It's a freaky deal!!

Thank God for you and this board!

My loss has slowed way down..and I've even seen gains. I got excited because I lost fast the first 1.5 months...but I think that was because I didn't eat for 2.5 weeks lol.

We have to remember our metabolisms are all different levels of dysfunction and our compositions are all different. We will get where we need to be in our own time.

 

[newanatomy]

My loss has slowed way down..and I've even seen gains. I got excited because I lost fast the first 1.5 months...but I think that was because I didn't eat for 2.5 weeks lol.

We have to remember our metabolisms are all different levels of dysfunction and our compositions are all different. We will get where we need to be in our own time.

That is what I am hoping for! I don't need it to be super fast. I just need it to happen. It's scary when you see tons of people 100 lbs. down at the three month mark and you are just 50!

 

[shann]

I wasn't a lightweight, but here's mine for comparison's sake. (Started at 297)

preop diet -11
Month 1 -22
Month 2 -15
Month 3 -15
Month 4 -12
Month 5 -11
Month 6 -12
Month 7 -13
Month 8 -9
Month 9 -11 (hit original goal of being under 175)
Month 10 -6
Month 11 -8
Month 12 -6 (hit normal BMI under 150)
Month 13 -3
Month 14 -5
Month 15 -2
Month 16 -3
Month 17 -3
Month 18 -2 (lowest at 127)

I have hung around from 126-134 since then. I'm 33 months out now -

 

[southernlady]

Thanks for sharing yours, Shannon.

 

[newanatomy]

I lost about 34 pounds between the pre-op and 1st month. Ten pounds a month since. I will be 3 months out on the 17th.

I am 5'8" and started at 285.

 

[JackieOnLine]

it isn't like me to do something so healthy, but I didn't keep track of my loss. don't even know how long it took me to get to goal. I know it was much slower than many others - over a year.

I can also tell you there was a VSGer who had surgery about when I did who posted some interesting stuff about how going low-carb didn't necessarily make much difference long term. short term, people lost faster, but she said she was in it for the long term and wanted to be normal. lovely woman, an American married to a Swede and living in Sweden. I regret I lost touch with her.

and I think I need to be back on OH - where all the newbies are - because they deserve somebody to counter the VSG board nonsense that everyone has to do it the same way or you are a big fat loser! that makes me mad.

 

[newanatomy]

it isn't like me to do something so healthy, but I didn't keep track of my loss. don't even know how long it took me to get to goal. I know it was much slower than many others - over a year.

I can also tell you there was a VSGer who had surgery about when I did who posted some interesting stuff about how going low-carb didn't necessarily make much difference long term. short term, people lost faster, but she said she was in it for the long term and wanted to be normal. lovely woman, an American married to a Swede and living in Sweden. I regret I lost touch with her.

and I think I need to be back on OH - where all the newbies are - because they deserve somebody to counter the VSG board nonsense that everyone has to do it the same way or you are a big fat loser! that makes me mad.

I am glad you are there and here to speak your mind.

 

[Jashley]

Thanks for the posts here. I think about this a lot.

I lost 50 lbs in 2 months after surgery (but I put on 30 lbs right before surgery playing the insurance games). Then it slowed down so much. I have lost a total of 95 lbs. I am 10 lbs from a BMI of 24, and I am 1.6 years out (and possibly on the verge of the dreaded bounce back).

I noticed that there were certain weight points that I stalled at for ever, and I thought the journey was over at those weights. But when I looked back in my memory, it occurred to me those points were major diet points when I put the weight on. For instance, when I lost down to 165 lbs, I stalled for months. Then I remembered that I weight 165 lbs 15 years earlier and stayed at that weight for years. And every diet I did would take me to 165 lbs and then stall - so it's a metabolic wall my body hangs on to. I finally got past 165 lbs, but it took months. I hit several milestones like that this past year. It's like I am replaying my body's memory tapes of all previous diet attempts - and the major walls my metabolism created through the years.

I've learned patience when I hit one of these milestones. I relax and eat more, gain back a few pounds, and build a healthier metabolism for the long stall.

 

[DBmom23]

Surgery 1/24/11 199.2
2/24/2011 177.4 (minus 21.8 lbs)
3/24/2011 165 (minus 12.4 lbs)
4/24/2011 156 (minus 9 lbs)
5/24/2011 151.2 (minus 4.8 lbs)
6/27/2011 148.2 (minus 4 lbs)
7/24/2011 143 (minus 4.8 lbs and reached 100% excess weight loss)
8/24/2011 140.2 (minus 2.8 lbs)
9/24/2011 136.2 (minus 4 lbs)
10/24/2011 134.2 (minus 2 lbs)
11/24/2011 134.8 (gained .6 lbs)
12/24/2011 133.6 (minus 1.2 lbs)
1/24/2012 133.8 (gained .2 lbs)
My lowest was 4/24/2012 at 121.8

@southernlady, what is the difference between you goal weight of 125 and 143 where you had lost 100% EBW? How were these determined?
If you don't mind me asking, what is your height? I think your preop situation may be very similar to mine.
Thank you

 

[unavidanueva]

Ok, so LW = lightweight? And what is a lightweight? Someone who started at a lower BMI?

 

[southernlady]

@southernlady, what is the difference between you goal weight of 125 and 143 where you had lost 100% EBW? How were these determined?
If you don't mind me asking, what is your height? I think your preop situation may be very similar to mine.
Thank you

As long as you are a 25 or higher BMI, you are overweight. Normal BMI is 24.99. So as long as I stay below 145 (which is 24.9 BMI for my height of 5'4"), I am in normal range and maintain 100% EXCESS weight loss. Anything above a 24.99 BMI is excess.

My goal weights were these:
180 (lowest I had been in the last 20 years)
165 (what my endo said was a good weight for me which I don't agree with NOW)
147 (yes, I know, odd number there but it was my lowest ADULT weight EVER)
145 (which put me in normal BMI)
Anything below that was gravy!
I want to get back to 125 even if it's just for a few mins based on the fact that I actually saw the 120's in my journey,
My comfort zone is 135-140.

How I figured it out is a standard BMI chart for what my Normal BMI would be for my height. BUT even being a normal BMI didn't change my general SHAPE. I still carry a majority of my weight in my torso, esp upper torso. IF you go by waist measurement, I am still very overweight. Unfortunately that was true even at 121. So losing the weight is not gonna change that. THAT would take more surgery like a tummy tuck to fix and that is NOT in my budget and at 61, I'd have to win the MegaMillions to consider it.

Ok, so LW = lightweight? And what is a lightweight? Someone who started at a lower BMI?

Yes. Amazingly enough, in the world of morbid obesity, there are different categories. One is the lightweight. But the exact parameters vary. Mostly we consider someone who has a BMI of 35-45 or less than 150 lbs to lose. NOT SET in stone, tho.

 

[GirlFriday]

Wow, this makes me feel better. Someone that had surgery one day before me has lost 73 pounds already and I get discouraged because I have only lost 40. I know that 40 pounds in six weeks is amazing, but when you see people that lost 100 pounds in three months, it makes me feel bad. This is helpful.

 

[Txkat]

I lost 45 lb on my own, before surgery.
Post-op check up( 12 days out) -16lb
End of month 1- -16 lb
End of month 2-16lb
End of month 3- -6 lb
Today ( 3.5 mo.) - 40 lb total 58% of EW lost BMI 29