. Hey all:

Last time I posted here it was October 1, 2011, and I was nonplussed because my rate of loss was really slowing. I said, tell me I am not stuck at 219.

Update: I was not stuck at 219.

Today I weigh around 210. That means I'm averaging about five pounds a month now. To me, that is outrageously, unjustly slow but it did renew my faith in the universe.I was hoping to get under 200 by Christmastime and I probably won't, but I'll be *close* and the greatest part about this is that I did it without obsessing *or* dieting. But it is funny how your tastes change.

Pre-sleeve I had been starved for carbs for years, and I was sort of a candy, cake, wine, garlic bread type of person. Now I can't imagine that. I can't quite express why Cake is so dumb to now but there you go. My cravings have really diminished and now I find myself wanting food. Every once in a while I'll have popcorn or a muffin but really a week of eating junk makes me feel so gross I will actually stop myself and think okay, kid, THAT is enough of that -- not because it will make me fat but because it makes me feel slow and sick.

I'm an adorer of Soup -- especially potato vegetable, I went through a baked potato and vegetarian chili phase and I still drink Sobe Lifewater 0.

I'm eight months in and I have 50 pounds to go and I think making it there might be possible. But for a yo-yo dieter like me five pounds a month, while unsexy to the extreme, is a perfect rate of loss.But mostly what I'm happy about is that I am sort of proving my hypothesis, which is that once I refused to obsess about this and just live my life, plus the restrictive action of the sleeve -- I started to crave good nutrition and lost weight without putting myself through emotional torture over what the scale said.

Down eighty pounds in eight months. Not dieting. Still going. It might take me another ten months to lose the next fifty pounds but by the end of it I will have learned how to eat like a normal person and for once in my life think about something else.

Hallelujah and Happy Christmas.

Holy Cow what a lesson this is for me! Since before surgery I have been trying to convince myself to be happy with an average loss of 10 pounds a month. I don't want to spend a year obsessing. Maintaining it off for years and years is what's important in my opinion. At least that's what I'm telling myself. lol

I am VERY happy for you. I hope I can be like you when I grow up.

"Believing in the universe" and "unsexy to the extreme" made me crack up. Thanks for the laugh. Go get 'em girl!!!!

Crosswind! You are back girl!... and 80 pounds lighter! I had surgery a couple months before you, and at 8 months was losing around 3-4 pounds a month. 5 is NOT outrageously, unjustly slow... its losing and will take you to where you want to go. When you get to goal, it will feel just a sweet if it takes 6 months or two years and it will still be goal. I figure my last few pounds(9) will take at least 3-4 more months, and could even be longer. Its time to get into the ZEN pleasures of S-L-O-W weight loss. Glad to see you back, you always contributed to this site in a unique and enjoyable way. Cheers and congratulations on your weight loss the size of a not so small child in less time then it takes to gestate a baby! (and you are stuck with them for 20+ years after!)

Cheers and congratulations on your weight loss the size of a not so small child in less time then it takes to gestate a baby! (and you are stuck with them for 20+ years after!)

:rofl:

Crosswind... hey!!

I am soooo pleased to read your post... good for you on getting that scale moving, but better still, not driving yourself nuts about it!

I agree with Feedyoureye, 5lbs a mth is pretty good... I would be happy with that!

Keep feeding your body the good stuff, and live your lighter life and that last 50lb will be gone before you know it!

Good to hear from you again =]

. Well thanks you guys. To be honest In the past two months I sort of *forgot* about losing weight. When I have forgotten about this before I've gained 40 plus pounds. I kept stepping on the scale and seeing no change, and you know, you get bored with this. That's one of the reasons it's really hard to lose weight normally for me because when there are a lot of pounds to lose....well, I can stick with a program for a month or two but eight months? A year? Eighteen months? It's too hard.

What a weird surprise to have forgotten about it, stepped on the scale and have been down ten pounds. This is the way it should be.