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Please give me an idea, I have been reading posts all day and seen huge numbers.. much higher than I would expect. . So how much do y'all lose monthly?

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From what I see , It really depends on each person and what weight they are at and what stage they are in.

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I lost 10lbs from my surgery weight within the first week and now it's between 3 to 5 lbs a week. I had my surgery 12/26/13 so it's still new and my body is healing. I am also one of the rare people that can tolerate regular food. I had some flank steak and fish already.

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Wow. I know it took my husband a month for soft foods and even them he puked all the tone

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I have to spit up if I eat to fast. Have to eat smaller bites and wait to make sure the bite goes down.

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Please give me an idea, I have been reading posts all day and seen huge numbers.. much higher than I would expect. . So how much do y'all lose monthly?

I had surgery on November 4th and have lost 43 lbs. I hit a stall between thanksgiving and Xmas but just started losing again.

HW: 385. SW: 347. CW: 304.

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I lost 10lbs from my surgery weight within the first week and now it's between 3 to 5 lbs a week. I had my surgery 12/26/13 so it's still new and my body is healing. I am also one of the rare people that can tolerate regular food. I had some flank steak and fish already.

Me too I had steak last night* it brought me out of my funk. I'll take the slower loss if it means I don't lose my mind with the boring food choices

Surgery 12/30/13 lost 6 lbs so far post surgery (17 total including preop)

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My husband is 1yr out and still can't eat steak

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I lost 10lbs from my surgery weight within the first week and now it's between 3 to 5 lbs a week. I had my surgery 12/26/13 so it's still new and my body is healing. I am also one of the rare people that can tolerate regular food. I had some flank steak and fish already.

Me too, I had surgery 12/30/13 and have been fortunate. I can eat small amounts of fish, tuna, even some very soft slow cooked pork yesterday. But I am being careful so I get the most out of this tool.

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It is always a bad idea to compare your weight loss to someone else's weight loss. The fact that my weight loss is different from yours means absolutely nothing. There are simply too many variables. Even doctors can only offer an educated guess and they do so knowing that it is likely that your weight loss will be different from their best guess.

Instead of trying to establish expectations which may or more likely may not become reality, consider focusing your energy on following the protocol as closely to the letter as you can possibly can. Stay patient. Stay positive. Trust the process. Regardless of what your weight is doing at any point in time (up, down, or stubbornly refusing to move), follow your plan. Allow your body to find its own way in its own time. Do those things and the weight will take care of itself. And your journey will be so much less stressful :-)!

You're gonna love the new you!!

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Well said. Ty for the advice

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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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      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!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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

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