At what point did you start counting your weight loss?

[JanaAZ 16]

I love seeing everybody post their numbers for weight loss, but I'm wondering....what did you use as your starting weight? I was required to go through a 6 month weight loss before I was approved to get the surgery. During that time I lost about 25 pounds. Is that the weight I should use, or do you use the weight you were at when you had your surgery?

While this may seem like a question that really does matter it leads into my second question...at what point does the excess weight loss figure get calculated? I have 25 less excess pounds to lose now than I did before I started my diet. Knowing this figure will help me know about how much I should lose from the sleeve and how much extra I'm going to have to really work extra for.

[enjoyinglife 313]

I started keeping track the day I started my two week pre-op diet, even though a year before surgery I was even heavier. At the end of the day, I could care less what the scale says. I am more obsessed with my body fat percentage. I wish our weight loss stats had a spot for "Goal body fat percentage" instead of "goal weight". I don't think weight alone is a good factor of overall health. But that is just me, and I could be wrong.

[indecision 863]

For the purposes of sleeve surgery related weight loss I use the number I weighed at the 2 weeks pre-op. 2 weeks before surgery I started the pre surgery diet and was 362. In reality though at one point in my life I was 418 at my highest weight but that was like 3 years before I decided to get surgery.

[HealthyNewMe 1,935]

My doctor says count all pounds lost bc w/out the WLS, you would in most likelihood be gaining those back. You lost them.....you count them!

[KristinaRnY 455]

My dr counts from my high weight when I started the program a year ago. And he said the more weight I lose before surgery is "money in the bank" and that the percentage of excess weight I should lose is calculated from my weight the day of surgery not my previous high weight. I had the same questions lol

[kimk1999 450]

I start with my highest ever. There's only 12 lbs difference between highest for me and surgery day. It was all a lot of work... Diet & exercising before surgery and diet & exercising after surgery. I weighed that and I've lost that so I want it counted.

[DLCoggin 1,788]

I started with my weight on the day that I met with my surgeon for the first time - 285 lbs. That's what went into their records and that's what I used. Every pound counts!

[Miss Mac 6,261]

At the end of my four month pre-op period, I had lost 23 pounds, but the clinic submitted my weigh-in number for the day I first walked through their door.

[macman 603]

I use the weight from my initial weigh-in, 362 pounds. I had a six month program and lost 42 pounds. It only puts me closer to my goal!

[DevilBlueDress 189]

I count from when I first met with a nutritionist for the 6 month supervised weight loss for insurance. It was then that I started changing how I view food plus I started tracking using MyFitnessPal.

Molly

[SandyM 1,956]

I count all of it cuz it's gone:)

[Wags 549]

I use highest weight. You will gain several pounds in the hospital due to Water retention (then lose it again) so count it ALL.

[Chickie D 76]

I started counting at my all-time high weight. Was down 30 or so prior to surgery.

[Lady VS 1,147]

My highest weight ever was 242 pounds but that was well over 10 years ago. I count my weight by the first appointment I had before I began the pre-op diet which was a month before my surgery.