You are very right about the skin, I have heard about that also. A coworker told me I look greath the other day. That was a great up lift. She said" how much weight have you lost?" I told her and she said "WOW and your skin isent hanging." LOL That to me was good. I am older and have a good chance of hanging skin. You also keep up the weight loss. And I am glad you found us also. .... Carol

You must be my soul mate. I weighed like 253 to begin with. I lost 55 lbs and then it stopped. That was about 2 to 3 weeks ago. Now it has started again I am down 59 lbs. now Yes I do think the body goes through adjusting before it moves on. This process will continue to work for some time so I am told. Hang in there....

Hi Arlene, I think it is normal. I was on a 2 week plateau at 55 lbs loss. It started again and now its 59 down. I was told the body just sometimes does this and then starts losing again. Congratulations on your great weight loss.

You are doing a wonderful job! I know how you feel though. It doesn't seem to come off fast enough. As long as you do everything right, you are a success!!! Cathy

What weight would you need to be to have a BMI of 24.9? So if you've lost 55 lbs divide that by the amount of lbs you needed to lose from day of surgery to get to the weight with the BMI of 24.9, multiply by 100 and you will have the percent of excess weight that you've lost. For instance Kay has lost 95 lbs as of Sept 30th. That is 39% of the weight she needs to lose in order to have a normal BMI. If you're anywhere from 30%-50% I'd say you're doing great!! I had surgery 20 days after Kay and as of Sept 30th I had lost 54 lbs which is 38% of my excess. A week and a half later I'm now at -58 lbs and have lost 41% of excess weight. So you see lbs aren't everything!! lbs lost divided by excess weight multiplied by 100 = percent of excess lost... get it? Cheer up, I'm sure you're doing great!!!! Lisa