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3-4 pounds a week is an amazing loss by any yardstick. Thank you for sharing your story OP - your honesty will help loads of others. I think you'll be absolutely fine at this rate of loss and I wish you all the luck in the world.

Oh yes - looks fab!

Oh no way would I have been fit for rollercoasters 6 weeks post surgery. But we are all different and recover differently! How do you feel now? Does it feel doable based on your current progress OP?

I wish wish wish I had had my sleeve when I was your age OP. I spent my entire adult life either dieting or eating what I wanted and feeling guilty. I can't think you will ever regret it if you do your research and go into the op fully prepared. Best of luck x

Totally the same experience as Catwoman7. I am approaching 18 months post sleeve and still losing a very tiny amount - way less than half a pound a week. Took me more than 5 months to lose half my excess weight. But we are all different. I wish you all the best with your loss. Stick to the plan and you'll get there xxx

Oh I have loads. Face and neck most noticeable. Stomach and thighs and butt really wrinkly but almost nobody sees those! I am SO not into my appearance so I don't give a hoot. I know others find it hard to see and sort it with surgery. It is really sortable with surgery if you want/need to do that so honestly I wouldn't give it a second thought. What matters (to me anyway) is my completely new and different life. Best of luck OP ?

Wow - well done you! I love meeting milestones - halfway there is definitely a biggie. ?

Oh wow - so good to hear your story Albus! Enjoy all of your cycles this spring/summer!

I hope you can find help OP. I think (know!) the surgical restriction helps a lot but we also need to address our underlying issues with food while we have that restriction in order to keep our weight off in the longer term. If you can connect with a bariatric therapist asap to check what you're doing that you shouldn't be that might be a good first step. I wish you ALL the luck xxx We're here to help if we can.

I wish you all the best with your revision. If I ever had to do it I think I would go for MGB or duodenal switch. I'm sorry I don't have any wisdom to share re your future course but if you had time please could you share your regain experience? I think it's what we all dread - the slow creep and next thing we're back where we started. Anything you did/took for granted that you wish you hadn't??

So great to hear your story OP. I wish you continued success and thanks for sharing!

So nice to hear your update. Wishing you all the best for your next steps x

Oh wow. Drool.

I have had 3 cycles of really noticeable hair loss since my sleeve 16+ months ago. It's finally (I hope!) growing back. I suspect it won't be as thick as it once was but I am totally OK with that. By the time it's falling out the new hair is already growing. I have never seen any decent evidence that any supplement makes any difference. In the same way the people talk about 'breaking' a stall by twiddling with protein and fluids and exercise and goodness knows that else, I think that people might attribute the regrowth to whatever supplement they were taking at the time whereas really it was just gonna grow back anyway. Human nature.

I hope you will find that the sleeve is an extremely effective weight loss tool. I had my surgery at almost the same time as summerseeker and I have also lost well over 130lbs. Beyond my wildest dreams. I wish you all the luck in the world with your sleeve.

17lbs in 4 weeks is absolutely awesome and not at all 'no weight loss 1 month PO' OP! As the others have said, a stall at this point is completely par for the course. Stick to your plan and you will lose loads more. Best of luck.

Honestly if you can stay away from ultra processed foods then do - forever! In emergencies we all need to grab the least bad option but for every day if you can get tubs full of proper home cooked from scratch food that you can eat throughout the day lined up, then I think that's preferable. At the minute I have in the fridge: leftover roast dinner from today (one cup servings) x 2, fish pie from yesterday x 1 and spag bol from the day before x 1. I do these up on a rolling basis depending on what I'm cooking for my family. I eat two leftover things late morning and early afternoon and then cook today's thing for dinner - that then makes me leftovers for the following days.

So good to hear your update FMO! Totally agree we have to live a normal life. It's fine to take some planned time off our programmes. How has it been getting back on track afterwards? Was the break totally worth it?

I'm sorry I don't really understand your concern OP. If I had lost enormous amounts of weight right after my sleeve then I would have been over the moon, LOL. When you say you think you're losing weight too fast - what do you mean? Too fast for what?? As the others have said - it's likely that some will be water weight and some will be attributable to the different scales you used. It's likely you will settle into a rate of loss that reflects your starting weight and how well you adhere to the rules of whatever surgery you had. If you could share your starting weight and your surgery type (or better still fill in all the stats you can on your profile here) then people here might be able to comment more specifically on your particular situation. There's a lot of expertise - really helped me! Best of luck.

Absolutely amazing. How fab to see such a big loss after such a long stall. So close!!!

Sounds absolutely perfect for 10 months out. You're probably in a stall - keep on doing what you're doing and it will break soon. I know it's frustrating but 91lbs in you are definitely the expert on your own weight loss!

I am just going to post an update because this has been kind of my diary thread (never having started an actual weight loss diary). 16 months post op, I have been the same weight for about 6 or 8 weeks now (142lbs) so I think I'm done losing. BMI is 21. I eat about 1500 calories a day and I think I'll have to stay close to that forever (so small compared to what I was eating 16 months ago!!) I can eat a good full cup of food at a sitting. I can chug about 7 or 8 swallows of fluid in one go. Loving my new life. I hope all my November 2021 buddies are too xxx

Oh god I agree, it is SOOOOO hard sometimes. Any loss is a good loss FMO - look at that BMI - so fab compared to this time last year ?

Hard agree - I know most of us will eat home-cooked proper food the vast majority of the time. It's nice to see what's out there for times when you need to grab something on the go though. I also focus on protein and tend to completely ignore the carb part of fast food! Thanks for sharing all. Storing some of these up in my memory banks!

Hahaha one element of that mix has to go and because I'm Irish I'm suggesting the orange (never the potato!!) ?