Six months out with lapband

I lost 20 lbs in the first year and then gave up. Because of other problems have had it emptied and plan to ever have it filled again!

That will vary greatly from person to person. It will also vary greatly the % of weight lost b/c of the band.......or b/c of other efforts. I would guess I lost 30-40 pounds the first 6 months. However the only part of that that was due to the band was the first 2 wks. when I had no appetite b/c of the swelling from the surgery. The rest of weight lost during the next 5 1/2 months were strictly from dieting. I never had restriction during this time other than those 2 wks. Actually didn't really get any untill almost 2 1/2 years out!

Now there are others that lose a large % of their weight from exercise. I have seen several post that became addicted to exercise so this was how they lost most of their weight.

Then yet others do low carb/WW/Jenny Craig/etc.

Also one thing to consider if you are comparing tickers is that some include the weight that they lost pre-op in with their post-band weight on the ticker. So if you are looking at tickers of those banded about the same time as you and it appears they have lost a lot more weight than u since banding, that's not always the case.

Good luck! :-)

 
That's been a long time ago.  I can tell you I was at goal by 8 months and I lost well over 100#.

on April 20 i will be officially six months....
as of today, i am 71 lbs.  that includes 10 lbs pre op, so 61 lbs.  that's an average of a bit over 10 ;bs/month.  I can handle that .

I have the large lapband, and currently have had ONE fill...2.5 cc's.  There are days when i am starving, and there are days when i am not.  I bet that's how a lot of "normal weighted" people are...

betsey

I don't remember for sure but I think it was around 80.