When did you weight loss begin to stabilize?

At nine years post op I'm lucky enough to be able to maintain the body I had the year following surgery... which, by the way for a while I never thought I'd get back to ( I was bloated from drinking the excess calories from alcohol)

Part of my finding-my-happy-place in sobriety plan is to exercise whenever possible in the mornings when I wake up ( for a few hours if possible - I alternate between rollerblading, beach walking, swimming laps and just walking to music) . This rapidly improved my body in about a month and gives me that " runners high" that makes me not crave excess bites of food or any other self-medication.

Unfortunately life got in the way and a property suffered tremendous Isaiah hurricane damage ( after I never fixed most of the damage from Sandy ) so now I'm camping in an unheated home with a broken gas line, cooking with a two-burner electric hotplate, microwave and air fryer ( and my trusty little indoor electric grill) heating with the wood stove when necessary ( obviously this isn't going to work for long if I don't want my pipes to freeze ) and taking showers every few days an hour and half drive away. OY VEY !!

I'm very lucky that my body isn't part of my problems anymore . I kind of think of money and body issues as so pressing that we can't see past them until we solve them ( if we can) and then a whole world of other issues opens up - ( aging, reaching my potential finally, making better life choices... relationships ..).

Like the lightweights counseled me ( and are trying to counsel you ) ... its best to get significantly BELOW your goal weight during the honeymoon period in order to manage to keep a lower body-set point after the honeymoon period is over. The dreaded 15-20 lb bounceback weight gain IS real. I could only dream of fitting into my first years clothes for a LONG time. Now I'm finally doing it ... but many years later.