I wanted to know if anyone had a month to month diary of how much weight was lost on lapband. I also wanted to know if there was anything special you had to do a long with eating right and exercising.:smile2:

Wow!! I can't wait! Does anyone know if it is dangerous at all to lose this much weight this fast? They say with all the other diets that you should only lose 2 lbs a week. I guess this is different since I haven't read anything about it. Anyone know?????

The norm on lapband is 1 to 2 pounds per week weight loss. When the body loses too rapidly there is the danger of lots of hanging skin. Exercise will hep with that to a degree.

The norm on LAP-BAND® is 1 to 2 pounds per week weight loss. When the body loses too rapidly there is the danger of lots of hanging skin.

That is a horrible, horrible misconception.

The speed at which you lose weight has absolutely nothing to do with how much excess skin you wind up with in the end!

That is a horrible, horrible misconception.

The speed at which you lose weight has absolutely nothing to do with how much excess skin you wind up with in the end!

Just saying what the PA told me when I said I thought I should be losing more quickly. Mea Culpa if that is incorrect information.

Date Banded: 8/25/2010

Weight at surgery: 255

I took off a lot of water weight in the first two weeks and want to say 12 lbs came off very fast, then I plateaued a little and started walking 30 min at lunch. First fill: 10/5/2010

Current weight: 228

LIke others have said, some weeks you lose more, some less. It does not do you any good to get on a scale every day. Weekly is a better idea.

Just saying what the PA told me when I said I thought I should be losing more quickly. Mea Culpa if that is incorrect information.

I should've mentioned that it is often quoted and always wrong.

Loose skin has many variables and how fast you lose weight is not one of them.

Age and amount of stretching being the two most prevalent.

I should've mentioned that it is often quoted and always wrong.

Loose skin has many variables and how fast you lose weight is not one of them.

Age and amount of stretching being the two most prevalent.

I believe it mostly has to do with genetics! Good genes definetly help.

Some of us (geeky) people have our weight loss and our fills and various other data all charted on excel spreadsheets:)

265 - Highest

260 - "official" for start of program

247 - surgery weight

229.4 - 1 month out

219.8 - 2 months out

213.2 - 3 months out

207 - 4 months out

199.8 - 5 months out

196 - 5 months 3 weeks....

so...right now I'm just shy of 70 from the top, 65 from the "official" and 51lbs lost since surgery in slightly less than 6 months. FWIW, I have not had any fills yet....