"If you lose weight too fast, it will just come right back!"

At my office, everybody is always on a diet but eating crap.  For example, behind my desk, two women are talking about their diets while eating chips and bagels.  It does not usually bother me.  They talk about their fresh salads, fruits and vegetables and dinners they have prepared.  One said she has lost a pound this week.  The other says - "Well, y'know, they say, if you lose weight too fast, it will just come right back!"  "Oh I know..."

Venting so I do not say a word.

Good self-control there.  There is so much mis-information on dieting and especially on weight loss surgery. 

I can't count how many people said to me, "You know most people gain the weight back after weight loss surgery."  - as if I didn't research it. They assume they know more about it than I do.  Drives me crazy. 

Or people who call it "the easy way."  Boy, you can tell they never struggled with obesity! 

Now I'm venting, too!

Don't let them get to you.  We've got our focus on success and we will do it.

Carol

I found all those people who may have initially lost faster or more than me are now fat again and I am not...'nuf said.

Yup. Connecting losing weight fast with regain is just another old wives tale.  I'm glad you didn't let it get to you.  It's possible to lose fast and establish new healthy habits that prepare you for maintenance. 'Fast loser' and no regain here!

Such misinformed people don't deserve your getting steamed up over. Rather, pity them for being victims of the colossally wrong nutrition misinformation disseminated by the government and the processed food industry lobbies that influence its policies. Your poor officemates don't know what to believe anymore, evidenced by their "healthy" cooking and godawful snacks. It isn't their fault.

Someone here recently mentioned a book (the name slips my mind) that talks about the history of dieting. Back in the 1800s, a "corpulent" man named William Banting and his doctor figured out a way for him to lose his excess weight and keep it off -- a lot of protein, a few vegetables and not much else. Sound familiar? Banting lost his weight and wrote about it. His method became so popular that his name became synonymous with dieting --- you didn't say you were "dieting"; rather, that you were "banting." The book further talks about how the US government got sidetracked into its various incarnations of "healthy" eating -- the four food groups, the pyramid, low-fat, high-carb, etc., etc.

It's enough to make you cry.

psychoticparrot

(I'll post the name of the book if I can find it. If someone else knows it, please post.)

Run, walk, crawl your own journey, don't listen to them. I am not a fast loser nor a slow loser I lost over 200lbs in about 2 years, so maybe that is fast. I don't know, however, it does not matter. It is my journey and yours is yours. Once you get to maintenance it is up to you whether you put it back on or not, fast or slow loser. It is about what you eat in maintenance.

The faster you lose it after surgery, the better.

From what I've read here, as long as you continue to follow the food plan and get some exercise, there's no real threat of gaining your weight back.  It doesn't seem to matter how quickly you lose the weight.  I agree with other comments, losing it fast to get to goal is preferred.  

The flip side is equally ludicrous -- lose slow and you'll not only keep it off, you'll give your skin time to shrink and you won't need plastic surgery. Maybe that's partly true. You won't need plastic surgery, because if you lose slow, you'll never get all the excess weight off.

Lose it as fast as you can.