Is it possible to lose weight faster the less diets you were previously on?

I was curious. I see that some people lost a lot of weight extremely fast to the point that sometimes they are told to regain some weight. Some lose so slow that it seems to take the entire 18 mos to lose 100#. Although I have a diet history, nothing lasted more than two mos or so with only about 20-30# loss. The one that I'm on now is the longest (about 7 mos) and I lost only 17 # (I guess that shows how extremely vigilant I have been with dieting). I cut out sugar (I use splenda, drink crystal lite, sugar free deserts, etc). Is it possible that I could lose too much weight because I haven't done that much dieting in the past that my metabolism should still be relatively normal. Or could the opposite, since I didn't really do much dieting, that this surgery will more than likely fail. What has your experience been. I even had a personal friend who had the surgery and haven't dieted before. She went from over 300# to around 120#. I don't want to be that small as I've never been THAT small (well, maybe as a kid). I was thinking roughly 150ish, my surgeon says 142 (The last time I was even CLOSE to 140 anything was when I had the flu in the 10th grade lol). I looked sick too, what would an additional 20# loss do?! What are you experiences? Terri

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