I am reading about people having great success and others frustrated at their very slow losses.

I have this fear of it being the same for me. Little or no weight loss.

I told my doctor that when I go on a low cal diet my body gets used to it within a week and stops losing.

I told him a few months ago I documented my diet over a few weeks and my calorie intake (at the time) was between 600 and 1100 per day, and I was exercising and I lost NOTHING. He said that was physiologically impossible.

I didn't say anything to him at the time but I will. I feel affronted that he disbelieved me. I have yo yoed all my life and now at 48 my metabolism is stuffed.

I don't want to go through the operation and not lose weight.

I want to know why this time will be different.

I need more answers.

This site is very helpful. I know some people only want to read the positives but I want to have a broad understanding of how it is in general for a range of people. Some people lose a massive amount and some lose hardly any, yet both are trying just as hard.

My heart goes out to the slow losers who hoped by taking this drastic action they would finally start a new and slimmer life.

We all live in hope and hope like hell we will be one of the 'success stories'.

I wish you all success. For those whose weight is hardly budging, hang in there, slow and steady is better than nothing. xoxox

For the ones who have lost heaps WOOHOO, fantastic

Thanks for your post. There seem to be many people who have had the textbook outcome from surgery with a lot of weight coming off quickly and I want to applaud their success! however, I am one of those with less than textbook success. I am 9 months postop and have lost about 60 lbs of 100 I wanted to lose. I am been at standstill since January:( Same few pounds up and down - I seem to be at an impass now - I am eating about 1/2 the amount of calories that I used to eat but apparently not enough to get below this point? I feel a frustrated but my mantra is - It is what it is - I just am moving through each day with the hope that the scale will start moving again. It just doesn't seem possible that I am not losing weight - the amount of calories I am eating now is about the same as I did on the pre-op diet that I LOST weight on - how can I be stuck? I echo the previous post - that my body seems to get at a set point and not want to move from its weight for quite a while - I am just going to keep going forward - move scale move!

I have found that the original amount of weight the person started with is a huge factor. For instance my friend and I had our on the same time scale we started our liquid diet on the same day but 6 days later I lost 14 lbs she lost 3. We had our surgeries the same day 12 days later I was down another 8 lbs she was down 6. We used the same shakes have the same lifestyle s for the most part. The difference I started my journey 3 months ago at 386 she started hers 273. We are the same height same ethnic background and age. My weight is obviously coming off oy a week after surgery my family is noticing and I'm not weighing. She has weighed and has hospital weight still. Everyone's body metabolically is different your rate of caloric intake may be way off from even your closet relative. I got obese because of quality not quantity my sister was the opposite and took hers off with no problem.

We also have a genetic predisposition from the caveman. Because of lack of food, extreme weather conditions their metabolism would slow down to conserve energy and that energy comes from fat. So even though they were consuming less calories they didn't lose weight or very little the metabolism was trying to keep them from starving to death. Thus, they stayed alive until Spring. I wasn't losing when I took my calories down below a 1,000 and was informed I need to increase it to restart the metabolism, it had gone into starvation mode just like the caveman. So you might talk with the doctor or your nutrionalist. Another freaky thing from my doctor (it takes me about three to four hours after waking up to want to eat) he said when we sleep the metabolism totally slows down, it has to be jumped started every morning. So first thing in the morning is some sort of protein whether I want it or not.

Hi colorado, thanks for your reply, I hope it starts moving for you real soon.

I agree with oldoneyoungagain, it's probably the only way to go at this stage, start eating more and then less again.

Two steps forward and one back kind of thing. It's never easy when you have a crappy metabolism. You have to trick your body kind of.

I am down about 40 kilos from my heaviest but my body just wont go below 121 kilos (266 lbs). I have gone up and down the same ten kilos for the past three years. It is arghHHHHHHH.

Hi kersha (the damn site isn't allowing me to use the quotes grrr)

You're so right. We are all different metabolically. For some it is easy to lose weight when they eat less, other people have to try all sorts of strategies to find something that works for them. It's quite maddening xox

Good luck to you and your friend xox

Hi oldoneyoungagain. I agree with you and I have the ultimate cavewoman metabolism

I've just had my lapband removed (had it for 4 years but it gave me more grief than it was worth). The surgeon said there was a lot of scarring and I'm half expecting him to tell me at our next meeting that he won't be able to do a gastric bypass.

So here I am with nothing at all at present. I actually put on half a stone in hospital and didn't eat hardly anything lol (grrr).

I have taken it off the past week by following a low GI diet which I am really enjoying and eating a healthy amount of calories.

I think what I'll do is try going low GI for 5 days a week and the shakes only on the other two days. God I hope it works. I'm running out of options here.

Good luck with your weight loss journey xox

Hi oldoneyoungagain. I agree with you and I have the ultimate cavewoman metabolism

I've just had my lapband removed (had it for 4 years but it gave me more grief than it was worth). The surgeon said there was a lot of scarring and I'm half expecting him to tell me at our next meeting that he won't be able to do a gastric bypass.

So here I am with nothing at all at present. I actually put on half a stone in hospital and didn't eat hardly anything lol (grrr).

I have taken it off the past week by following a low GI diet which I am really enjoying and eating a healthy amount of calories.

I think what I'll do is try going low GI for 5 days a week and the shakes only on the other two days. God I hope it works. I'm running out of options here.

Good luck with your weight loss journey xox

Mine comes out (lapband 5/23) after three years and I didn't have any problems with it, new doctor discovered it slipped. Really think positive. By the time the bypass comes down the road it will be the third surgery and my surgeon never even brought up scarring. He definitely knows and probably prepared. But if you really want the bypass, and it can't be done because of the scarring, they would be able to do it with the one incision, if your doctor would do it. Right now, I am maintaining weight with a little loss lately (shocking for a slipped band) but will have the bypass done, whether with five holes or one large. So with good luck with your journey also, but I will add it definitely doesn't look like it will be an easy road for either of us.

My doctor has already indicated it would have to be open surgery (one large hole). He told me before the lap band was removed if when he went in and saw that there was too much scarring around where the band was then he wouldn't do a bypass because he wouldn't be able to make the pouch small enough. Anyhow, better to just wait and see what he says I suppose.

I live in Australia and they don't do as many bypasses here as USA. The surgeons are more reluctant to work with scarred tissue.

Thanks for your good wishes

My doctor has already indicated it would have to be open surgery (one large hole). He told me before the lap band was removed if when he went in and saw that there was too much scarring around where the band was then he wouldn't do a bypass because he wouldn't be able to make the pouch small enough. Anyhow, better to just wait and see what he says I suppose.

I live in Australia and they don't do as many bypasses here as USA. The surgeons are more reluctant to work with scarred tissue.

Thanks for your good wishes

Thats a bummer. I've read where some have had the scar tissue removed from the band and then went on with the bypass or even the sleeve. I'm keeping you in my prayers and wishing the best that all goes well.

Thank you oldoneyoungagain, and I you

This is just because of lax metabolusm . I had it too. No matter what I did the weigjt stayed until rny. You will lose. Some people just complain because they want to control the speed of the bus

Well that's great to hear michelecaples. When did you have it done and how much have you lost?

If you don't mind me asking how much were you when you had surgery?