Expectation...?

I know everyone differs on the weight loss time.. but I'm wondering about how much weight most people have lost in about the first 9 months or so after surgery with rny?

Also, I am still in the process of having surgery..so close yet seems so far still but its closer than I was before, anyway.. now a days every time I look in a mirror I try to see myself smaller and not having a belly in front of me, how hard was it to actually wrap your head around that idea before surgery, knowing that one day it wont be so.... big, I still feel like its so hard to believe and have a really hard time thinking its actually going to happen.

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this way but who knows.

Even after you start losing weight, you'll have a hard time to get your head wrapped around the idea of being smaller.  If your clothes didn't fall off, you wouldn't realize it.

I just posted a chart as to what to expect.  I'll post again on here:

Expected excess body weight loss:
6 weeks - 25%
3 months - 35%
6 months - 55%
9 months - 70%
1 year - 80%

For patients weighing 200 to 250 lbs.
10 lbs. in first 10 days
15 to 25 lbs. in 6 weeks
25 to 35 lbs. in 3 months
35 to 45 lbs. in 6 months
60 lbs. or more in 1 year
70 lbs. or more in 18 months

For patients weighing 250 to 300 lbs.
10 to 12 lbs. in first 10 days
15 to 25 lbs. in 6 weeks
25 to 35 lbs. in 3 months
45 to 60 lbs. in 6 months
80 lbs. or more in 1 year
90 lbs. or more in 18 month

For patients weighing 300 to 400 lbs.
10 to 30 lbs. in first 10 days
25 to 45 lbs. in 6 weeks
35 to 55 lbs. in 3 months
50 to 80 lbs. in 6 months
100 lbs. or more in 1 year
120 lbs. or more in 18 months

For patients weighing 400 to 500 lbs.
10 to 30 lbs. in first 10 days
25 to 45 lbs. in 6 weeks
35 to 60 lbs. in 3 months
50 to 90 lbs. in 6 months
120 lbs. or more in 1 year
150 lbs. or more in 18 months

 One thing I suggest, the day before you start Opti, and the day before you have surgery do 3 things.  Take a full body picture, measure yourself (in multiple locations, health tracker can help with where) and weigh yourself.  When you think you hit a stall, it might be the scale not moving, but other things are (i.e. inches).  Then you can compare through your journey.

Cathy

Thank you so much Cathy for posting that for me. It really helps.

Hi, 

I am going on 9 weeks post op and went from 258 to 210.  I need to get to 170.  I stalled at week 5 and 6 post op.  Week 7 I got clearance to resume exercise and now the #'s are moving again.   It differs for everyone and at my post op class they indicated to be patient and that it can take a year or more.  Patience is key.

Having said that there is are so many more benefits you do not think of post op that happen - for me it was no more pain in my shoulders and neck, no more acid reflux, and the best and most surprising result was 9 weeks and no more migraines that I used to get every four days.

So the surgery is awesome and patience required for weight loss!!

Hope this helps.

Kelly

Hey - started at about 270 3 years ago.

In the first 6 months I lost 130 pounds

Then I lost another 10

Year 2, I gained 15 pounds, and all my acquaintances told me I need to regain that - I had been looking cadaverous.

I have now regained another 10, and want to get that back off. I am confident that with either walking or biking every day after work now I should be able to do it.

One final note - the clothing sizes are what really blew my mind. In the space of eight months, I went from a size 26 to a size 8. I couldn't keep up. It wasn't worth buying anything new at all. I started going to consignment shops, and have never really gone back to new clothing. In the first 2 years, it often happened that I wore an item once and then it was too big, so a waste of money. I found that almost incredible.