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During the first six months your stomach is not tollerating all foods (ie crap), it's smaller and as such the weight is falling off at whatever rate is a good rate for your body. After that you can eat more and typically your stomach can tolerate more, leaving the option of going back to your bad ways more open to some. But it's not a drop dead date by any means. It's just the clinically proven highest period of weight loss.

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I have lost 90 lbs in 4 1/2 months, so it can be done. I am faithfully going to the gym and only eating what I'm supposed to, I read so many posts on this site where people are eating chips, candy, ice cream, brownies and so on, but I did not go thru this surgery to be able to eat all that crap that got me to almost 350 lbs! I love my sleeve!

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During the first six months your stomach is not tollerating all foods (ie crap)' date=' it's smaller and as such the weight is falling off at whatever rate is a good rate for your body. After that you can eat more and typically your stomach can tolerate more, leaving the option of going back to your bad ways more open to some. But it's not a drop dead date by any means. It's just the clinically proven highest period of weight loss.[/quote']

Also, by 6 months, your metabolism will adjust to your new intake as well as lighter weight....slowing down weight loss.

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You will probably not lose 100 lbs in six months. The average during that period is sixty percent of excess body weight. The balance of weight you want to lose will likely come after the honeymoon period.

I was sleeved on 8/14 and I started around 231 and im 189 today. I think everyone looses differently. It all depends on diet and how much you exercise.

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I was sleeved on 8/14 and I started around 231 and im 189 today. I think everyone looses differently. It all depends on diet and how much you exercise.

But people don't typically lose all excess weight in the six month period. As BB said, towards the end of your journey the weight loss slows because of metabolism changes. Since 8/23 I've lost about what you have, though I gained significant weight within the first six weeks. But now my weight loss is slowing as I approach the half way mark for what I want to lose. (Dang it LOL)

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November will be 6 months for me and I wish I was at goal but I won't stop til I'm there :)

I'm looking forward to being able to yell out " goooaaaaaaalllll"

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You mean kind of like a person who yells, "3...2...1. I'm debt freeeeeeee!!" On the Dave Ramsey shoe. Some people will know what I am talking about. :)

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My brother gets married on the 19th April next year and it would be amazing not to he the fat one for the first time ever!!!! :-)

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I'm not sure if this is helpful in this context or not, but here is a thread that I started yesterday in Exercise:

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/57581-sophisticated-calculator-caloric-deficit-exercise-for-monthly-estimates/

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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