Don't Sell Yourself Short - How Much Have You Really Lost

[Vanilla sky 28]

I have lost 64%!!!! Even I am shocked at that number!

[Cocoabean 430]

36.6% here!

[m1aman 944]

Only 19.5 here.

[pink dahlia 2,513]

if i figured this right ive lost 47% of my excess weight since last December. yee haw !

[jen_1381 446]

I'm only down 15% since surgery May 18th, but I'm so grateful I'm down instead of up 15%!! After a week long plateau I finally broke through yesterday.

[SageTracey 608]

42%

[Lose100 178]

17%

[running_scared 125]

11.6% lost so far

[Sojourner 2,446]

Perspective and interpretation is everything...and elcee nailed an excellent point. Looking at the percentage of body weight lost places a better perspective on how successful we are with this journey to date, instead of looking at the number of pounds lost!

25.2%

[Cocoabean 430]

There is a difference between total body weight lost and excess weight lost.

I have lost a total of 36.6% of my body weight from all time hight to current weight.

From all time high to current weight I have lost 113% of my excess body weight based on reaching a BMI of less than 25.

[geology rocks 9]

Cocoabean, I would think that the value should be a percentage of your excess weight rather than your total weight. I came up with my value by dividing what I have lost by the total amount that I needed to lose in the first place. You have really done well, by the way!

[elcee 3,340]

There are many ways of looking at it and percentages can be of various things. I could have started a thread about how much of your excess weight had been lost but I find that a lot harder to determine as then you have to decide what your excess is. Is it simply anything over normal BMI or is it what you consider to be your excess? I could also have started one with what I have lost compared to what I weigh now - that would have given me a figure of 48% of my current weight.

In the end it doesn't matter. The point of this thread was to encourage and make people feel good about themselves and what they have achieved.

But for purposes of consistency lets all use the same calculation in this particular thread - total lost divided by starting weight

[Bamabander 111]

Banded 5/29/12, down 8.5%!

[running_scared 125]

this is so true. in three months ive lost 41.38% of my weight.... and my loss hasnt been fast. just slow and steady. this is a great way to look at ones weight loss. thanks for bringing it up. judy

Judy, unless you weighed 100 pounds to start, losin 41% of your body weight in 3 months is fast!

[Krussell19 217]

36% here