Today is my 9 months surgeversary. I am thrilled to report that I am down 60 pounds from my surgery weight and 84 pounds from the 260 I weighed when I started working on losing weight pre-op.

60 pounds might not seem like a lot to some folks. I know there are people out there who lose that much in just a couple of months. But, for me, I am very very pleased.

In the beginning, once it became clear I would be a "slow" loser, I was very frustrated. I had all the same thoughts and reactions that I see other slow losers having on these forums. Why did I have 80% of my stomach removed and undergo an expensive and potentially risky surgery to lose weight more slowly than I could on my own? Why is everyone else losing 10 pounds a week when I'm only losing 1 or 2? What am I doing wrong?

Luckily, that mentality only lasted a couple of months for me. Eventually I realized that I wasn't in a race. I was losing weight and I would continue losing weight until I didn't need to lose anymore. It didn't matter when I got to my goal, so long as I got there eventually and was able to maintain it once I did. After all, that was the main reason I got WLS. Weight LOSS is the easy part. I've managed to lose weight on my own dozens of times. It's weight MAINTENANCE that was always the challenge for me. And now I am VERY confident that once I reach my goal, I will be able to maintain it much more easily than in the past.

Now, 9 months out, I am quite content to just be losing about a half a pound a week. Every half pound brings me that much closer to my goal, and meanwhile, I am just enjoying my life!

Yay, congratulations! I have been following you from the beginning of your journey and am so excited to see you near goal. I had surgery a month after you and I'm a slow loser too. I had the same reaction; a few months of insanity over the slow loss to an acceptance and appreciation for the big picture. Of course I'd still like to lose fast but I know that's not going to happen and I'm hoping the one benefit I have is less loose skin.

so excited to see you near goal.

Yeah. Only 11 pounds from my nutritionist's goal, which also happens to be the same as the lowest weight I've ever been as an adult (got down to 165 at one point after losing about 40 pounds when I was 23... I'm now 36). I'm 21 pounds from my personal goal of 155, which would put me at a "normal" BMI, but I don't know how optimistic I am about reaching that weight at this point. I would be beyond THRILLED to get down to 165. 155 seems more of like a "pi in the sky" kind of achievement, but we shall see. I guess if I do keep losing a half a pound or so a week, I could get to 155 in like another year, but it seems unlikely that I can keep losing even at the half pound per week level forever.

Seems like you are doing really well too! 77 pounds in 8 months is a lot!

Good job Jamie! You're always an inspiration. And you look so great! How's your C25K going?

How's your C25K going?

Had my first 5k race on the 23rd. My finish time was pretty terrible, but I expected that, because I hadn't run for over 2 weeks prior to the race. I was on vacation from the 9th to the 17th. While I was on vacation, I bought a bunch of dresses (I've NEVER worn dresses), which meant buying new dress shoes to wear with them. The dress shoes TORE UP my feet in a serious way, so I couldn't run for that first week I was back either. I finished the race in exactly 42 minutes, 0 seconds, which is exactly the time I had predicted. I had originally hoped to finish in under 40 minutes, but I knew with not having run in a couple of weeks, it would take me a couple minutes longer.

The good news is, I have moleskin all over my torn up feet now and I can run comfortably. So I ran this past Thursday and again yesterday. Hoping to keep running every other day and work on improving my time for my next race on June 20.

I want to thank you for posting this "slow loser" thing you have because I have it too. I was begining to think I was the only person this happened too. (Very unrealistic.) Anyway I am out 8 months and I have not lost or gained any weight since my 6 month check up. 185 all the time. Some days 185.2 then 185.6 or 185 something else! Very tired of seeing that number. I have tried sooooooooooo many different things to jump-start this and nothing helps. I refuse to stay at 185 for the rest of my life. It will not happen. Going to talk to a psychlogist next week to see what he says. So maybe he can see something I cant. But again thanks for posting.

I too am a slow loser. Congratulations on your weight loss!

I've not been doing what I am supposed to be doing so for the first time, I have gained 5 pounds. It's a huge wake up call for me to get back to the gym and the low carb, high Protein lifestyle that I need.

thanks so much for sharing!

Two year out

158

Hight weight

My weight now 158