I found this out by accident (by googling things like average weight lost first month, slow loser, metabolically efficient, hypothyroid, etc + VSG), but I found something that is really motivating when the scale is moving slowly or not at all. Go to a forum from a year or two ago and look at people's posts about how slowly the scale is moving or how they feel like they will never lose or they are a slow loser. If they have a dynamic ticker that updates all of their posts as it changes (rather than a static weight record in text), you will see how much weight they have lost since they made the post!

So someone might say, "I think something is wrong with me--I only lost 10 lbs my first month post op," or, "The scale hasn't moved in 4 weeks--I wish I hadn't gotten this surgery"--you can see in their ticker 10 months or 18 months later that they have lost 80 pounds, 100 pounds, 120 pounds--etc. It is very motivating because you realize that you aren't the only one encountering those issues or having these thoughts, but eventually the weight DOES come off if you are doing the right things.

Note: I'm not sure if this happens with the posts on this site..I happened to see it on a subsite of OH.

I so needed this ray of sunshine. Thank you for pointing out this truth! Now... to just get to the point where I'm a year and a half out (not a mere 6 weeks!) lol