Lawyeress

Hi! First post here. Next Thursday will be exactly 4 mos from my DS surgery date. Since that date I have lost 46 pounds from my SW of 261.4. While that is more than I have been able to do on my own, I feel like I am not losing at the same percentage/rate that many WLS patients who are members on my surgeon's face book page--and they had surgeries that typically lose less than DS! (shoutout I the other Rex in Raleigh patients, woot woot). Some had their surgery around my date and weighed very close to me and already have busted the 100 club wide open. I'm exceedingly happy for them, but it makes me feel like my surgery is not as successful and fuels the fear that I will still be a fat girl after all of this. Hitting my goals 95% of the time so I feel confident in that. I've made so many positive changes and yes I have had a bite of pizza or a Coke once or twice, but it's not the norm for me by a long shot and mainly I just had them to see how they affected me (no effect whatsoever). In any event one Coke in 6 months is not going to reduce my comparative percentage loss that much. Ok so I have poured out my soul, what have y'all experienced in terms of rate of weight loss? Please don't tell me everyone is different, I know that, but I also know that many others lose at rate higher than mine...in fact, everyone that I have ever met at has had the surgery has lost at a higher rate than me. I'm getting discouraged...

I'm so happy for you! That's awesome. We had the same surgery. I weighed 1 pound more than you and had my surgery a month (almost exactly) before yours and yet it took me 2.5 more months to lose the same amount of weight as you. Discouraging. I feel like before surgery when nothing would work no matter how well I did with dieting. Did you do anything special?

Just wanted to follow up. Someone asked what kind of DS I had, I remember Dr. Sharp saying he was modifying mine for a little more absorption. Maybe that's why it is slower. Update: I weighed 209 this morning. I weighed 261 on date of surgery after a week on the liquid diet. I do really well at following the program and meet with a personal trainer twice a week and do cardio 5x a week. The highest I weighed was 272. My surgery was in November so I am coming up on my 5 month surgerversary In about 3 weeks. Meaning I've only lost 52 pounds. I guess what started this thread is that I saw on the FB group of people losing nearly 100 pounds by this time who weighed around the same as me to start off. It's disappointing and soon once the honeymoon phase ends, losing enough weight to justify the surgery is looking dim.

I would tell myself to start eating better and working out regularly now. Losing weight IS possible. That even though WLS would be an option in the future, nothing is like staying trim to begin with. No excess skin, no lost life, no non-existent love life...that food is not my comforter and friend. That food is a catty, underhanded bitch working to undermine you on the auspices of making you feel better. LOL.

Anyways the point of this post was to get your rate of weight loss, anyone 😀

Janedoe I get around 800 and I track it on my fitness pal.

Hi! I had DS which is supposed to be the fastest. I follow my plan and meet the protein, water and vitamin goals. My bmi was 49.1 and is now 38.2. What was your rate of weight loss?

No. I still can only eat about 3 oz at a time and to get the protein goal it is solid meat. I can't do yogurt for some odd reason, it feels as if it gets stuck. Rice makes me sick and I ate a bite of a friend's lasagna at Bravo and felt like I was going to explode so I don't do pasta. I don't do fruit or grain (although I did add about a tablespoon of quinoa to my chicken breast and handled it well. The Coke I had about 2 oz of and as a liquid it went down easy. The pizza I had I just ate the cheese and pepperoni. What roughly has been your percentage of weight loss?