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@@VSGAnn2014 thanks! Funny enough sometimes reading posts here makes me think maybe I'm not...panicked enough/stressed enough/aggressive enough about losing weight NOW, NOW. NOW! But then I remember that I gained weight over a 10 year period...and I really want to make overall change in my life and I am okay :)

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@@sleevedinseptember ... I didn't stress at all either about how fast I lost. And yet I've made it all the way to goal (150 pounds) and 12 pounds below that.

One of the lucky things I (think I) did was not to eat 800 calories/day for all of my weight loss phases. I ramped up to 1,000 cals during Months 5-6 and up to 1,200 cals during Months 7-8 (at my bariatric P.A.'s urging). She said it would help my eventual maintenance budget be higher.

Turns out, in my case at least, that she was right -- I'm now while maintaining eating 1700 calories a day (on average) and bouncing (now) between 138 and 140. I honestly think that I will need to raise my cals to stop slowly losing weight or that, if I do eat a few hundred calories, I can maintain close to this weight.

Boy oh boy, this is working for me! :)

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