Just trying to get a sense of avg weight loss.

Please don't include pre-op weight loss in your responses. Thanks!!

How much had you lost 3-months after banding? 6-months?

good question i would love to know the average too gives us something to look forward too ...do you think starting weight makes a difference in weight loss amount too ?

Great Question - I was banded almost 3 months ago. The IV fluids from surgery added another 4 lbs. That put me at 235 post surgery. I am now at 222. So, a total of 13 lbs. in 3 months / 4.33 lbs. a month. I'm a SLOW loser and don't have restriction yet. Still in bandster hell - meaning we have the lap band, but it's not quiet doing it's job until you get to the green zone and feel restriction. This can take several fills over the first several months. My recommendation is NOT to waste those first few months - stay on a very controlled diet, eat healthy, get used to a new lifestyle, so you will lose weight during that period also. I have friends on LBT that have lost 30 lbs. already as a result, since their surgery the same month as mine (January 2012). I have lost inches too and my clothes are getting much loser, which is also a great motivator. Pebbles - yes, I do believe starting weight has alot to do with the amount you lose in any timeframe. The more you need to lose, the more you do, in the beginning at least. Good luck to all of us!

i have lost 46 in 10 weeks after surgery

7 weeks post op and 30lb down I have no restriction but I follow a low fat high protien diet as if I have restriction.

Just trying to get a sense of avg weight loss.

Please don't include pre-op weight loss in your responses. Thanks!!

How much had you lost 3-months after banding? 6-months?

Technically, avg weight loss is between 1-2lb a week (coming from Allergan itself), so about 8-10 a month. The bigger you are, the faster you lose initially.

If you are trying to compare weight loss with banding vs other surgeries, the other surgeries lose more rapidly to start. At five years post-op, the band and other forms of WLS are almost identical in amount of weight lost.

i have lost 46 in 10 weeks after surgery

Wow that's great

At my three month post op appointment I was at 28, not including my liquid diet, 36 total at 3 months.

I don't have my 3 month data, but it wasn't much. That is when I first really started losing. I had postponed my first fill due to a cruise. I was banded Feb 15, went on a Cruise the last 2 weeks of April, got my first fill sometime in late April/early May. At 6 months I was down 25 from my surgery day weigh-in.

I was a lower BMI start. I was also a very slow loser, but I got there!

I am about 3 1/2 months out and i have lost 56 pounds. I am down to 197 and have never had a fill.

At 3 months I was down 29, 50 at 6 months. Good thing I keep a running log at the back of my journal!

Just trying to get a sense of avg weight loss.

Please don't include pre-op weight loss in your responses. Thanks!!

How much had you lost 3-months after banding? 6-months?

no post op loss... down 18 pounds in nearly seven weeks.

I will be three months this Thursday and I am down 48lbs. Hoping for 2 more by Thurday to make an even 50. I just had my second fill and really felling the restriction!

3 months post op I'd lost 65 pounds.

I'm currently just shy of 4 months post op and am down 82 pounds.

WOW you ALL are doing AWESOME hopefully i will have results like this it is very motivating when you have such great weight loss