This journey is different for everyone and we all have our individual struggles as well as our individual triumphs.
My main reason for lapbanding was basically to lose weight in a healthy, but fairly quick environment. On my own, I quickly lost motivation and patience when the scale didn't move, or didn't move enough and then quickly resorted back into the comfort of food/drink.
There has been alot of discussion lately on what is an acceptable or average weight loss per week/per month.