Today I am 10 months post-op.

Starting Weight: 260

Surgery Weight: 236

Current Weight: 171.6

Goal Weight: 165

I am only 6.6 pounds from my nutritionist's goal weight. Still 16.6 pounds from a "normal" BMI, but I am thinking of that of more of a stretch goal for my second year post-op. The pounds have definitely been coming off more slowly in these past 3 months, but I am still losing. It might be tough to make 165 by September 1. I would need to lose 3.3 pounds each of the next two months and while I managed to lose over four pounds this past month, the two previous months I lost less than three pounds each. I've decided to just keep doing what I am doing and not taking any special/desperate steps to try to make my goal weight by the one year mark. It's really a meaningless deadline in the grand scheme of things. Even if I don't quite make it, I know I'll be close and it will be just a matter of another month or so to get there.

I have, however, already met my nutritionist's most important goal for me. She was always much more concerned with body fat percentage than weight or BMI. On my surgery date, my body fat percentage was 48.2%. My nutritionist wanted me to get below 25%. As of this morning, I was at 24.8%!

You have made great progress and continue to inspire and motivate me.

Our stats are so close! Well, you are 2 inches taller than me but our starting and current weights are very similar. My 10 month is near the end of July. I don't think I'll hit my goal by 1 year either but I'm just going to keep plugging away. As you said, it's sort of meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

You're doing so great Jamie! Always an inspiration and voice of reason for me and everyone else on this forum. And you are so right. I've been so focused on getting to goal by my year, it's almost stressing me out. Especially when my loss this month was 4 pounds too. What's the damn hurry? It doesn't mean I'm less successful if I don't get to 150 by August 22.

See. Always the voice of reason

Congratulations on your great progress!

Congrats!!