Had my 6 month check up today. My 6 month surgiversary is actually still 8 days away though. So here are some stats for the first 6 months.

At surgery consult, Doc set my goal at 80% of total excess weight (total =113, 80% =90). Hit the 80% mark but my personal goal is 100% of my excess weight to get to my healthy BMI. I am really hoping to hit the personal goal by Christmas or 9 months.

For those of you that have hit these marks, how hard was it to get those final 20 lb off? Did you have to work harder? So far, mine has all still "fallen" off without me having to really work at it.

I'm going to try to post some pics to this thread in a few days.

Surgery to normal BMI was no big effort--but I want to lose another 10-20 lbs and so far in Sept I have lost 1.5 TOTAL for the month. I know it will come off eventually as I have not changed my diet/exercise, but it's way slow this month. Hope you do it quicker!

Good job. My original goal was to get to 150 pounds but modified to 180 pounds for two reasons: First if I loose much more my body shape will be way to thin and I am getting women commenting on how I look now telling me to now lose to much, second my personal physician 180 is about as low as I should go for my height and bone structure.

Again congratulations on your accomplishment.