I would like to hear from others who had slow weight loss. My weight loss has been very slow. I'm losing - on average - about 2 pounds a week. I say on average because I have had some killer plateaus that lasted as long as 4 weeks. Then I drop real fast for two or three weeks before my weight crashes into another plateau. My doctor says that is a good thing because I won't have the lose skin and hair loss. He also says I have another year of weight loss to look forward to, and at the rate I have been going I will make it to my ideal weight sometime next spring. I am over 50 so I knew it would be slow, but it's hard to read about how everyone is losing so fast and then see mine inchworm along. I keep a food journal and make sure I'm hitting my target calorie count. I'm trying so hard to be happy about the progress I've made, but somehow I just thought I would be a bit further along than I am.

I would like to know if anyone really does keep losing for 18 months after surgery. Has anyone else made their weight loss goal with slow weight loss?

I have lost 35 lbs since the surgery. I had Kaiser, they had me on a preop classes and diet that I lost 9 lbs on and a liquid diet too, loss is 50 lbs, I M 5 10 and weigh 235 now. I could never get into a size 10 in my life, even when I weighed 145 when I was young. I too am menopausal. I didn't realize I should not eat carbs, I just thought the small stomach would make me feel full. but it doesn't . and it doesn't work on the "head" part of it. . I wish they would have given me Belviq like I wanted in the first place.