HOW MUCH WEIGHT DID YOU LOSE AT 6 MONTHS OUT?

Boscogirl
on 11/30/10 11:09 pm - TX

I had lost 75 with only 8 to go at six months.

Goal in EIGHT months!

         Highest/Surgery Weight 248 Goal Weight 165 Current Weight 165-175
                           Starting BMI 33.7 Current BMI 22.1
             I'm 42 years young, my height is 6' and I've had no plastics!
                                          I

my sleeve!!!

brownblonde
on 11/30/10 11:22 pm

VSG on 05/26/10

I've lost 75 and I'm 6 months, 1 week post op today!

Judith K.
on 11/30/10 11:24 pm

VSG on 05/15/10 with

I could read these responses and get discouraged. I'm 5 1/2 months out and have ONLY lost about 53# since surgery. ONLY!!! In the same amount of time on WW I had lost a whopping 20# and then yo-yo'd for about a year and had only lost 22# from 12/08 through 5/10!!! Doesn't that put things in perspective????

I'm very happy w/ my 2# per week average. I hope to make goal by my 62nd birthday (02/28) or by my surgiversary (05/15).

Can't wait to hear how you do on your weigh in. I'm SO impressed that you don't weigh yourself.

HW -- 255.8#; WW/pre-op lost 22.6#; CW -- 152.2#; GW 140#; 103.6# GONE FOREVER!

Sharon_O
on 12/30/10 9:59 am

RNY on 07/26/10

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mia_xara
on 11/30/10 11:36 pm - Athens, Greece

At the 6 month mark, I had lost 98 lbs with the original sleeve surgery.
I lost 88 lbs in the same period with the re-sleeve.

Sleeve surgery weight: 308 lbs Re-Sleeve surgery weight: 272 lbs

cielle
on 12/1/10 1:13 am

VSG on 11/22/10

Hope you don't mind my asking, but why did you have to be re-sleeved?

lizdietz
on 12/1/10 1:28 am - Vancouver BC, Canada

VSG on 09/09/10

I was wondering why you had the re-sleeve. 98 lbs is a good amount of weight loss.

mia_xara
on 12/1/10 8:59 pm - Athens, Greece

I totally agree. 98 lbs is a good amount of weight loss. But...

My SLEEVE surgery was almost 4 yrs ago. Surgery day weight was 308 lbs.
There was no bougie used, not oversewn. I had a gastrograffin x-ray done and my stomach was small, but it looked more like an hourglass and less like a banana. The stomach left, was comparable to a 60F bougie stomach(!!!!). My starting weight was 310 lbs. I lost 125 lbs within a year. I kept it off for 1.5 years. At 2.5 yrs out of surgery, I started regain. I regained 86 lbs within 8 months. I could eat way more!!!! Almost like I used to eat before surgery. I thought it was all my fault, that all the bad old habits returned and that I'm a total failure. On Jan/2010 I decide to find out what the problem was. So, I had a second gastrograffin x-ray (barium) and I found out that my stomach was a huge hourglass, which could hold more than 20 ounces.
That's why my NEW surgeon and I, decided to have a RE-SLEEVE surgery (33F bougie, oversewn).
I've lost 94 lbs so far, with a total loss of 130 lbs (sleeve + resleeve).

Sleeve surgery weight: 308 lbs Re-Sleeve surgery weight: 272 lbs