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SLOWER LOSER'S

This is for all of us who get discourage when we don't lose as fast as everyone else.;)

 

I read all these blogs about the quick weight lose or discouraged about only losing 10 pounds. I sometimes get discouraged because in almost a year I lost 40 lbs. The majority of this weight has been in last few months. I lose on average 1/2 or 1 pound a week. I work out 5 days a week. I felt like a failure for the first 6 months because I wasn't losing and put my family in such a financial debt. I have finally started losing steady and feeling good about myself. I just wanted to let the people out there know that everyone's body is different. Some lose fast and other's slow. Some feel restriction with surgery and many others 4 or 5 fill's later. Everyone is different. Everyone's opening to stomach is different. I have lost slow but my health is improving. I am off almost all medicine. I have more energy and my self confidence is out of this world.

Don't get discourage because you didn't lose 25lbs first month like Joe Blow. We will all get there at our body's own pace. Take it one day at a time. :rolleyes:

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mistilynn.v

LAP-BAND Patients

:DI so love you....Thank you so much......:D

LeeLee76

LAP-BAND Patients

Thank you so much! This is something I needed to hear and still need to be reminded of and you couldn't be more right. :D

Beck2011

LAP-BAND Patients

Thank you for the post.... I am almost 12 weeks post op and I am starting to gain back my liquid diet weight lose of a whopping 16lbs..... so now I am only down 8 pre sx. I really really needed to hear this...thank you!

CiCiRN

LAP-BAND Patients

I am 1 year post op, and I have lost 31 pounds.

I get so discouraged! A friend that had it done at the same time has lost 100 and never works out,

I work out daily..

makes no sense..lol

But I feel better..

I look better..

I'm a slow loser too..but still a LOSS!

jennifer1

LAP-BAND Patients

i am crying reading this post. thank you so much for posting. i am almost 6 months out and feel like a failure. yes i have gone from a size 20 to 16, but the scale is a different story, plus i've have 4 fills and 2 unfills, now awaiting my 5th fill, which i cant get until dec 5th, which means i have to go through the holiday with a wide open band!!!!ugh! i have thyroid issues too, yeah i would get so pissed at people that were like yeah i lost 60 pounds in the first 6 months. i was so angry saying why couldnt that be me! i was happy for them but pissed it wasnt me.

thanks for the post, it made me feel better.

jennifer

CiCiRN

LAP-BAND Patients

jennifer you are NOT alone..

some of us are going to be slower..

we can get through this..

I too have gone from a 20 to a 16, and had really thought I'd

be a 10 by now.lol

Was just talking to a friend that has lost 36 in 6 weeks..I just smiled and said, that's so great..

inside I went..

ARGH

LOL

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