When did you notice a big slow down in weight loss

So I know people lose differently, and there is a honeymoon period.  I'm wondering if my rapid loss period is going to be shorter.  I lost over 100 pounds prior to surgery.  I have only had a couple weeks that were what I would call exceptional weight loss, and It certainly has slowed down quite a bit. Just kind of wondering what others thought.  Is it possible that with the big weight loss prior to the surgery that I'm not going to see 12 to 18 months of honeymoon weight loss? Scott

I don't know...it depends...everyone is different, EVERYONE.....FYI just because there is a such thing as a "honeymoon period" it doesn't mean that you can't lose weight after it.  My weight loss chart is on the bottom of my profile....i really didn't see any slow down until I got closer to goal, and I just had longer plateus, but the weight still came off.  I had to stop my weight loss at about 18 months out. Scott

There's nothing magical about the "honeymoon" period.  In the end, it's calories eaten minus calories needed to live minus calories burned through activity.  If that number is negative, you lose weight, at a rate of about 3500 calories per pound lost.  If that number is positive, you gain at the same ratio. To the extent a honeymoon exists, it's just that right after surgery we can eat very little and (for most of us) we are so fat we need a lot.  As the months go by, our ability to eat increases and our needs go down.  When that gap gets small, it slows down a lot.  When that gap disappears, the loss stops.  And of course, it can go the other way.  The honeymoon is just that first phase where the gap is big. So is your "honeymoon" going to be shorter?  Of course it is.  A 500 pound guy is going to have a very long honeymoon, a 220 pound guy can't possibly have a long one.  But it doesn't really matter much except psychologically.  If you don't screw up your metabolism too much, in the end you're going to need, say, 2700 calories to maintain a weight of 200 pounds (for example), regardless of whether it takes you six months or six years to get there (my uncle took the latter).  Eat that or less and you'll get there, and if you ever start eating more than that, you'll gain weight even if you initially got to 180 in five months because of your still-microscopic stomach.  The key is to keep motivated.

I lost 13 lbs prior to surgery and weighed 442 on the day of. I lost an avg of 0.93 lbs per day during the first three months and only 0.45 lbs per day during the fourth month. I'm currently experimenting with upping my calories in an attempt to jog my metabolism a bit. During that 4th month I quite frequently was below 500 in net calories after factoring in my exercise. I'm hoping to get back up to at least 0.75 lb loss per day. I'd like to be under 300lbs by six months out. But other posters are correct in that it takes fewer calories to support our every day  lives and our exercise expenditures as we get lighter.

JFish, just curious about the "Germans" bombing Pearl Harbor. It's probably just a joke, but wasn't it the Japanese?

Best Wishes,

Dave

Dave  it is a line from the best movie ever  "Animal House"

Yeah. What Eddie said. May be one of Belushi's finest moments. I use it in this particular context to remind myself that even though I'm down a hunnerd, it ain't over yet. I still have a homecoming parade to wreck.......

I get it. I thought it was something like that, but my knowledge of history is only slightly better than my memory of movie lines.

I noticed mine finally put the brakes on @ about 10 or so months out, but then I lost at a record pace for my surgeon's patients before that point (200 lbs. total) ..  over about the next month or so I didn't lose a single more pound, and then over about 2 weeks I lost another 8 ..  within another 2-3 weeks the 8 came back though, and my weight has hovered around the 200 lb. loss mark ever since ..