Is it all about some arbitrary number on the scale??

I absolutely do not think it is too late for you!  Or anyone else with a Sleeve for that matter.

My tips to you would be:
-  exercise regularily, especailly cardio
-  drink lots of water
-  eat 3 meals a day (and high protien snacks when necessary)
-  eat protein first and foremost
-  when trying to lose limit carbs, especially simple carbs
-  when trying to lose leave out the treats

That should do it... The person to REALLY ask is Linda (MiniMe), she put on a few and has lost those pounds, what worked for her, should work for you getting those last 10 lbs off.

I hightly recommend you do it now, when it is still relatively easy.  You are still newly sleeved, go for it honey!

Cindy

Hi Cindy,
Thanks for the tips.  To answer a few of your questions
  - Yes, I do exercise, at least 3 but more like 5 times a week. 
  - I strength train 2 times a week
  - I generally spend 40 to 50 minutes on cardio equipment and every day will do something different.  
   - I occasionally will do a kickboxing class
   - I journal my food at least 3 times a week.  I'm trying to get better at this by doing every day.  I generally do not go over 1200 calories and am usually in the 1000 calorie range.

Thanks for all your help.  I will locate Linda and get some advice from her.  It drives me crazy that I'm so obsessed with this.  I tried to talk to my husband about it and he said I look the best I've ever looked and most 46 year old women would kill to look like me.  While I admit I look and feel great there is still that part of me that believes that because I took such a drastic step to have the surgery, I want to go all the way and lose the most weight possible and finally be able to say, "I reached my ultimate goal."

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Ok great I hope you and Linda connect, her post is down a few from here.

And listen to Gail's advice on the working out, she knows more than I ever will.

Good luck, you can do this!

Cindy

Are you strength training? Building and preserving lean muscle mass will help to increase your metabolism, so that you burn more calories at rest. Cardio alone, isn't enough.

Are you logging your food and keeping track of protein, carbs, fats, and calories?

As you know, you can't spot reduce. Fat leaves the thighs and belly last.

Sounds like you need to start mixing things up. If you have been doing the same exercise, your body gets used to it, and doesn't burn as many calories. Try a different activity each day or week. Try a Spin class. Now, that is real calorie burner. Try strength training.

I think that if you really work the exercise and food tracking, you will be able to reach your goal. The last few pounds are tough to get off, since your body doesn't burn as many calories as it did, when you were heavier.

Try to get your body fat tested, by hydrostatic or Bod Pod. That may also help you to decide on a goal.

Gail

If you lost around 100 pounds, you probably have 10 pounds of loose skin that will never come off (except with PS). So you need to account for that too when setting a goal weight.

my surgeon did not give me a goal weight, but the nutritionist gave me one of 150 and told me that would be more realistic considering my age...

so i set that as my first goal, a normal bmi was 145 so that was my 2nd goal,   my goal im trying to get back to is 138 its a pound under the weight my family dr gave me in new zealand when i was 20.. if i can weigh what was my ideal weight at 20 thats good enough for me... im still 2 lbs above it on my heavy scale but  i think id be there if i weighed back on my wi which is what i was using when i got there last year..

 What i have noticed is that taking the weight off this time its come off differently than when it went on and im smaller now in my stomach than i was last time i was at goal.. i have no desire to go lower than a size 4 in jeans and they all fit me ... im really not too worried if the 2lbs come off or not right now as i for the first time am acutally happy how i look...  (well almost)

I recently recieved approval to go to a plastic surgeon for a consult for a breast reduction .... but we are moving in a week so i have to start that process with insurance all over again.. 

My sister got a breast reduction and just loved the results, she looked so much slimmer after and was very happy with the new size.  She is the one in the White T-Shirt in the family pics.

I know you are slim everywhere and that they are bothering you, I hope you get it done, so that they fit with the rest of your body.

Big hugs,

Cindy

Thanks all for all this valuable reading !!!

I think my body is okay at 160.

I am getting back to my cardio !!!!


Thanks for all the tips !!!

I am cheering you on daily sweet Phill!

Big hugs,

Cindy

I've told this story a lot so hopefully it won't be boring...

When I first looked into WLS, I picked 145 as my goal. This was based on my most successful dieting attempt. I had gotten down to that weight (and slightly lower for 2 seconds and a gallbladder removal) and figured it would be tough, but I could maintain it.

But I couldn't take off wor****il the Fall so I had months to hang out on WLS boards and see what life was like after WLS.

Soon I realized WLS wasn't the same as dieting and that most likely I wouldn't be starving all the time once I lost my weight. I tentatively lowered my goal weight to 140. This was the absolute lowest I had been since I got obese. I knew I'd still be a bit pudgy at that weight but I couldn't really imagine anything lower. This seemed "realistic" to me.

Then, as time went on and I saw person after person get down to a normal BMI and be happy and healthy and not struggling with dieting every second of the day, I had a change of attitude. I decided that I wasn't going to go through all this to not at least be a normal BMI. It didn't really seem possible to me in my heart but my head said "go for it!" That gave me a goal weight of 132.

At my 3 week follow-up visit post-op, my surgeon talked to me about a goal weight. He said my chart had 130-115 in it and how did I feel about that. Inside my head I was screaming "are you freaking kidding me?" but I heard my mouth say "sure, that sounds fine." I figured 130 was only 2 pounds less than 132 so maybe I could squeak down to that.

I ended up getting there about 2 weeks after my 6 month check-up. And looking in the mirror I could see that I was still pudgy/chunky/overweight. I was still losing easily and not struggling with hunger so I kept going. I just kept looking in the mirror to decide if I was done. At 125, I said "I could live with  this." but I kept losing. At 120, I said "No, this is my new 'never go above' weight". But I kept going.

I eventualy got down to about 112-113. (In fact, it says 113 on my driver's license because that's what I weighed the day I got it renewed.) I felt kind of scrawny at that weight but only on top. I still had fat deposits from the waist down. Still I didn't want to get any lower. I was concerned with how little fat I had in my torso (visceral fat protects our organs and is necessary).

Over time, my weight has fluctuated and so has my body fat percentage and also how it was distributed. For the most part, I am  happy with the changes. I do have a tendency to get fluffly in the winter when I'm not working out as much but still eating a lot. Then in the summer I lean way out to the point where I think I'm on the border between too thin and perfect. I've also been doing a lot of strength training and that as caused my weight to go up even when my size hasn't.

So at this point I consider myself to be 120 and to be happy. I do fluctuate up and down from there and there are times when I have tons of loose skin due to be very lean and that's not as attractive as when I have more body fat, but I try not to obsess over it all as the differences are pretty slight to anyone but me.

At this point, I don't really have a goal weight but a goal body fat percentage and a certain level of lean body mass I want to maintain and it continues to be about what I see in the mirror and how my clothes fit rather than what the scale says. I still weigh myself every day but it's mostly for curiousity.