How much Have you all Lost??

I am so frustrated, I am 26 days out and have only lost 18.5 lbs. What the heck?? I feel like this was all for nothing. I know everyone loses differently but I feel like I am losing so slow. So far I am doing everything right, protein, water, etc. Right now I am just upset and need to know what else people have lost. Thanks Anna

Hi Anna I am now 1 month and 1 day out and do not know for sure how much. I went to my 2 week post op on 10/6/04 and had lost 22 lbs since my pre-op appt. and 31 since my 1st appt. on 03/24/04. I do not own a scale and do not plan to buy one as I am afraid I will become obsessed with it. My next appt is 11/02/04 and will find out then. Beside all scales are different and I will be going by my surgeons anyway. Don't be discouraged about your weight loss as everyone loses at different rates. Tina N

A much more accurate measurement of your success is how well you are following your plan and what you are doing for exercise. I think there is way too much focus in some of the postings on weight lost. We need to focus on installing new eating and exercise habits while we have this window of opportunity. It has been shown that how well you do changing your eating habits in the first six weeks reflects greatly on how you will be doing two years out. If you are losing weight thats all that should matter right now as far as the pounds go. I am doing very well with my plan and exercising a little bit more every week. Yes, I am losing at a faster rate right now (35 lbs in 3 1/2 weeks) but I am male and have a lot to lose. At the rate you have lost so far, you will lose 100 lbs in less than six months. What chance did have of doing that before WLS? Keep it up your going in the right direction!

Anna, I was the same way, stuck and not losing. In fact I even gained 3lbs at one point. But I just kept on doing what I was supposed to and find I am now losing more and feeling better. I will be 2 months post op on Wed and have lost 65lbs so far. Of course they say the bigger you are the more you lose and I started out quite big. Please don't get discouraged and keep up all your good work. You will soon see a surge in your weight loss, I promise. Besides, that 18 lbs is gone forever! Doreen

Hi Anna! I'm one month out and am down 26 pounds since surgery. I've had some very frustrating times where the scale doesn't want to budge and I get that overwhelming feeling that this isn't going to work for me. I'm following all the directions and doing everything right, so why isn't this happening faster? Then I step back and think about it in terms that make me feel better.... I've been overweight all my life and my body is not going to let it all go over night. I have lost 26 pounds in just over 4 weeks, that's about 6 pounds a week. Before surgery I was lucky to lose 1 or 2 pounds a week. I'm drinking 64oz of water a day, eating healthier than ever before, and am exercising every day. I'm on the right track to getting healthy. We just need to give it time to work for us. Our bodies need time to catch up with what we just had done and eventually it will let go of all those pounds. It's going to happen, we just have to hang in there!! Julia

I am 7 weeks out had my surgery on 09-03-04 and according to my scale I have lost a total of 53 pounds sicne surgery and a total of 74 pounds with the 21 I lost pre surgery added in. I am almost 2 months so that only means I will havelost about 25 pounds a month. It is slow but it does come off. You will see in time and all your frustrations will turn to happiness. Shannon

Anna, I lost 25lbs after surgery and 21 lbs b/4...but what I want to know is how much food is to much? I think that I can eat tooo much right now.I eat a Jr. whopper (just the meat with no problem) the other nite!!! I also can take my pills whole and I don't have a problem with that either! Am I normal ? MARY

hi mary, i've wondered that myself and reading everyone's posts, i know there's no such thing as normal. my intake can vary from one day to the next. i try and follow the 'rules', e.g., protein protein protein, eating slowly but not so slowly that i am grazing, chewing very well, and stopping when i am full - not just trying to finish what's in front of me. then i feel good about my eating. i bought some lean cuisine and smart ones frozen meals. yesterday i had a 9 oz meal and was able to eat all of it quite easily. so i felt like i was doing something wrong. but then i realized that the turkey portion was about 3 oz and there were soft vegies which i could eat easily and the gravy was part of the 9 oz weight and i wasn't sopping it up with potatoes or bread. i've been enjoying sashimi, which is very very high in protein. i can have 6 - 8 pieces. on other foods, like chicken strips (3 grilled chicken strips from trader joe's is one serving and has 20 grams of protein), i can have 1 or maybe 2 before i am full. hope this helps. susan

I am so totally frustrated. I am hungry, hungry, hungry.....slamming in the water, getting 50-60g protein a day.............and the scales are STUCK.....for a week now. And the inches are stuck too. It seems if I eat any carbs at all, I stop losing. Well, I have done Atkins before//lost a ton of weight (70lb, lol)..............but I hate this diet. I figured with the WLS I could eat fruit and veggies again, in addition to the darn protein............but it does not seem to be working out that way so far. Maybe as I regain strength and get more exercise it will work, but right now I am very unhappy with this situation. Maybe I am just too old for this to work. I mean, one would think with 600-800 calories/day I would just lose weight regardless of maybe 45 carbs a day......GRRR

HI Anna Evey one is different, and the only reason I lost so much is because I had a very very bad kidney infection 2 weeks after my surgery. So I'm down 70 pounds, but I think I will have to fight to keep it off now that I am feeling better. It may not seem like much but 18 pounds in 10 months is 180 pounds , a.k.a. my goal weight. If you are steadily losing, that is so much better than losing and gaining back. Hang in there