Question:
What site has the projection function where you can type in the number of months

and find out where you should be in your weight loss progress? I think it was on a site for the mini-bypass and someone posted the link within the past month. I checked the library but can't find it anywhere. Anybody?    — snohflake (posted on May 28, 2003)

May 28, 2003
Checkout the 'gallery' page and under 'fun things to do' click on 'weight loss planner'. You put in your height, weight and the % of weight you'd like to lose and it gives you a chart that shows ideally where you should be at any given month. Remember, everyone is different and loses at different rates. YMMV
   — LynneSteinmetz

May 28, 2003
I'm 2 months po and just did the "fun thing." It wasn't fun at all. It predicted I would be down 73 pounds at this point. Well, guess what? I'm only down 33. Depressing.
   — msmaryk

May 28, 2003
Anita I am sending you a link to show you what you are looking for. Hope it helps.
   — Tawnda C.

May 28, 2003
Mary K., I'm in the same boat as you. I am 8 weeks (will be 2 month come the 31st of this month)...I've lost 35 lbs. Pretty close to where you are...at least we're still losing!!!!!
   — Renee B.

May 29, 2003
It's a fun site, but I think we should take it with a very *big* grain of salt. My primary complaint is that they give the same 18 month projection no matter what % of excess weight you plug in, which means your amount lost at, say, 10 months will vary. Are you really more likely to reach ideal body weight if you lose faster? That implies there really *is* a fixed window of opportunity, and I'm hoping that proves not to be the case for me. Time will tell! At this point, about 12 months out, the numbers work for me if I plug in losing 90% of my excess weight. I'd love to get down lower but will have no complaints if that proves to be my result...as long as I don't have much of a regain.
   — Celia A.

May 29, 2003
This was not even remotely accurate for me. I still lost to my surgeon's goal though, so don't let it throw you.
   — mom2jtx3

May 29, 2003
I used the site and it was somewhat correct for two months. Then it was way ahead of my weight loss and then I caught up with it. Go figure that. I don't look at it as anything but a barometer of possible loss. No one loses at a perfect 7 pounds per month after six months, etc. I use it to compare my projected loss, but I really don't take it too seriously. I am losing great, wish the best for you too.
   — Rhonda V.

May 29, 2003
Ah, the "Weight Loss Planner." Yet another way to drive ourselves nuts (along with getting on the scale every ten minutes), but we can't stay away from that stuff, can we?? I remember railing against the "Weight Loss Planner" when I fell behind its "schedule" right from the very start. Inexplicably, I got to goal six months before it said I would, anyway. How'd that happen? Dunno. At a year post-op, I'm 12 pounds below where it says I should be right now (who's laffin' NOW, Oh Evil Weight-Loss-Oracle-Planner?). All that after being "behind" in the beginning, which really bummed me out for quite awhile. So, to anybody who doesn't like what these little graphs are telling you, take heart -- t'aint necessarily true.
   — Suzy C.