Considering that my weight on surgery day was 290 pounds... with the following stats, would y'all consider me a slow loser? I'm feeling like I'm falling behind those who WEIGHED LESS and were sleeved at the same time as me...

March 297 to 276 down 21 pounds (includes two weeks of preop)

April 276 to 273 Down 3 pounds. (but up 11 pounds of "Water weight" according to my fancy scale) eating 800-900 calories a day

May 273 to 259 Down 14 pounds. eating LCHF 800-1050 calories a day.

So far in June I'm down 3 more pounds to 256.

I'm only losing about 1.5 pounds every ten days.

I totally understand how discouraging slow loss is. But, as everyone kept telling me, hang in there. Keep doing the right things and the lbs will come off. It took me 9 weeks to get excited about loss then got discouraged again, but kept up liquids, Protein and calorie count and prayerfully the loss will continue to speed up. Hope this helps

My first appointment as on May 26th and I weighed 240.

On the day of surgery I weighed 228.

At my 6 month appointment I was 189.

I am at 10 months and am now down to 163.

I have 33 lbs to go. My doctor said at my 6 month appointment that he expected me to lose between 20 and 30 lbs. I had slowed to about 3 lbs a month. So far I have lost 26 pounds of that. However, recently my knees have stopped hurting enough that I can do some serious walking and bicycling and I have started to losing faster again. I lost 3 of those pounds in the last week.

I hit the 40 lb mark. 15 weeks. Im so happy!

I just saw my doctor today for my six weeks postop appointment' date=' And ask him what benchmarks they like to use. He said they like to see patients who've lost 20% of their excess weight at six weeks, and 38% of their excess weight at three months...hope that helps[/quote']

This is really interesting.Did your Dr mean the excess weight starting from the day of surgery (after the preop diet) or from the very first consultation?

I just had to accept that I will lose slower than everyone else. I really don't care that much anymore as long as the scale moves in the right direction.

Pre surgery 240

surgery date 7-16 229,

8-14 215

so I think I average 1/ 2 lb per day. Everyone else seems to do much better but I'm ok with this way now.

I'm so happy with my sleeve, down 48 lbs at week 18. I'm finally ok with only losing 1-2 lbs a week. I'm glad the scale is going in right direction! (Sleeved 4/22). day before surgery My son made me buy this red women's large T-shirt while trying to get a mens XXL. Very surprised how I looked. Praise God!!