I feel very blessed to have a surgeon that has done alot of patient education with me. He said the weight chart is just a scale but the weight chart has flaws and also is just a avg. He said we were all design to be thin people but to set my my goal weight of 139 is probally unrealistic the chart does not take into count bone density and bones can be very heavy as well as muscle can be heavy. I did find out I have very dense bones equivelent of 19 male. and I am very muscular in my legs and arms.To bad I have a body shape of a tick. Look at my skinny arms and legs LOL and no boobs.I do not want to lose in my arms anymore LOL Someone told me I am getting so tiny on top and I perked up "tiny" I heard Tiny Yesterday I just looked in mirror at my body and I think i could see the real me now for a brief second. I could see the shaping of a thinner body in there. I use to see fat all over now I just see fat gut and upper thighs as problem areas. Nice butt LOL I can feel my port of my lap band just below my skin.. When it was first installed I rememeber I had to have a fluroscope to find my port now it gonna stick out soon.I call that my badge of weight loss when my port sticks out. I know I will have to have the port moved because it is starting to poke out and hit my ribs all a good sign.Doc said all more reason to help pay for a tummy tuck.I am truely a butterfly in my cocoon and undergoing a metamorphis. I just hate the ugly hanging skin and my surgeon said I have about 20 to 30 lbs of excess skin that will need to be cut off.Having twins and then 7 kids streched the hell out of my tummy. Had a doc joke with me once and said anyone who has twins should get a automatic tummy tuck free no way your skin is going back to normal soooooooooooo true.No matter how hard I work out it is not gonna go away with out a surgeons knife LOL Lisa

Also they told me I was at 73% weight loss at one year out. Ok so where is the rest of the weight gonna come from? Jan

Lisa, I agree with you, lol. My surgeon has my goal weight at 140 (I am 5'4") and I think he's insane, and yes, I told him so. First he had me at goal of 135, 140 was his COMPROMISE. But he said it would take me at least 2 years to reach that goal. At 12 months out I am just shy of losing 70% (by 2 pounds), so I am on target for OH's calculator here: http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/information/post+op+planner.php My one year appt is on 5/19 and I am curious to see if my goal weight stays the same. Today I was taken off my blood pressure med completely, so if I never lost another pound, my surgery was still a resounding success, because my BP was the primary reason I had it. We just need to keep at it now that the honeymoon is over Inky

Ty for writing this post ..I had to respond as I am sufferering the same problem as u.TRUE CONFESSION FOR ME.. I use to suffer from anorexia I know hard to believe but it was true. I had gotten pregnant with my twins and due to my disease of anorexia they were born to early and died at birth and I will always blame my self for their death .. I had not even planned to have children and the twins were a surprise and the devistation made me get pregnant AGAIN and I gave birth to my daughter 41 weeks later to a very sick girl that suffers today but I rememeber hearing the doc screaming at me and told me I should have a abortion because I am malnourished but I started to eat and I GAINED AND GAINED, I compensated and ate and ate and eventually had 7 kids to compensate for a loss of two kids.. I now exercise my heart out and I really messed up my metabolism because my body use to such little food .. My family is worried I am becoming a anorexic again as they see me eat at the family reunion. I think they would be horrified if they knew I had weight loss surgery.. reality I need to be consuming 600 calories to lose but I fight so hard to except 1200 calories is a good diet and healthy way to lose with exercise and except I will lose by ounces not pounds. I suffer from low blood sugar now due to exercising alot and a few times felt I was gonna pass out.Lets face it we have a eating disorder and are weight is only a symptom of not the cause and I THINK WE ALL ARE GOING THREW HUGE CHANGES. I still see my self as a huge 295 woman not the 200 lbs woman I am now. I am losing so slowly most people do not see I am getting smaller not like wow what happen to u. I am not getting the feed back. I went to my family reunion and no one said a word about my weight loss which does not help me. and my body imagie I just felt so fat.. But I did meet a OLD friend (HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON HIM) that told me he was a fool NOT TO PURSUE ME AND I am just one hot momma NOW he told me LOL HE wa****TING ON ME big time.. he was bascially asking me to cheat on my hubby I was not giving in.. I derserve better LOL His loss!!!! (he did not want me when I was REALLY fat) Sssssssssoooooooooo IT'S TIMEto go to the close pull the fat outfit and see u r not the same woman u were a year ago takes time for our heads to catch up to the new body imgaine. Lisa

Sounds like a fun exercise to me. I am glad that you are putting things into prospective. It is easy to start focusing on negative things (scale not going down) and not all the positive. My life has also truly been changed. Congrats on making it this far....