Question:
My friend asked how our body will know its time to stop loseing weight.

Since all of us have a different amount of weight we want to lose how will our bodies know when we are at our goal and that it's time to stop loseing? Is this a dumb question or what?    — Nancy S. (posted on January 13, 2002)

January 13, 2002
I have wondered the same thing. What about us lightweights that lose everything by, say, 8 months..do we keep losing the weight until 18 months mark?? No, I think that the 18-24 would have to apply to those that have much more to lose. My friend went from a little over 300lbs. to 139 in 11 months. Her body has slowed down drastically already. It seems as if our body just knows where we are supposed to be and we should work with it to accomplish that WITHIN the 18-24 month window. How it knows is beyond me..I will be waiting to see some answers. I hope someone knows.
   — Cheri M.

January 13, 2002
At 300 pounds I needed 4300 calories a day to live. At 190 pounds I need 1200 calories a day. Right after surery we eat perhaps 300 calories a day, and loose fast. Eventually that grows to 1100. When the two needs equal we plateau and are at our new post op weigfht. It works well since there are VERY FEW underweight post ops out there. Our bodies know when to quit loosing.
   — bob-haller

January 14, 2002
That makes a lot of sense Bob, I like that. Maybe that is why I am already plateauing and losing only about 2 lbs. a week at 9 weeks out. I was wondering why I have already slowed down so much so early. I 'm just happy the scales are going in the right direction:-)
   — Cheri M.