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I just had a follow-up with my nutritionist and she said I'm losing weight too quickly. They want me to be around 5% per month and I'm around 8% for the last month. (I'm almost 2 months out)

Has anyone else heard anything like that? She didn't really say what I should do about it. I thought I was doing awesome.

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You are doing just fine. I would say keep up the GREAT work! I can only lost 7lbs. so far and I am two weeks from surgery. Give me some TIPS!

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You are doing just fine. I would say keep up the GREAT work! I can only lost 7lbs. so far and I am two weeks from surgery. Give me some TIPS!

I'm just following my plan. Nothing special. I do walk a lot, though. I try for an hour every day.

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The first month or two we do tend to lose rapidly for several reasons, and then it settles down to a more sustainable rate. Guys in particular tend to lose faster, so it's no surprise that you are running ahead of their normal expectations. My doc gets concerned, too, with overly rapid loss, but they are a DS oriented practice, and those guys can be hard to catch if they lose too fast, but that is rarely a problem with the sleeve. It looks like you will be a six monther, give or take, so keep an eye on your monthly loss rate and you can always start adding calories as you approach your goal.

I was within about 10 lb of goal at the six month mark and the RN was wanting me to cut back the exercise (which wasn't going to happen, I was only doing the maintenance level of exercise that I had been doing for the past several years,) but I did ease up on the calories and sort of let the holidays happen (that was November at the six month mark), had been losing consistently 10 lb per month the past three months and that stretched that last 10 lb loss out a couple of months and had no significant overshooting of the mark. It did drift down a bit more over the succeeding months as I worked into a stable dietary routine, but that is also a good time (or at that six month mark) to re-evaluate your goals and see if you want to make any adjustments - get a body composition analysis done (fat mass, lean mass, etc.) and see if you want to tweak things.

Good luck, and have fun with this!

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I did ask, but she didn't give an answer

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5% per month may just be the average of 100% over 20 months.

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5% per month may just be the average of 100% over 20 months.

The percentage is of my total weight, not excess weight.

I called her back and she said I should not change anything yet, but if I continue to lose at this rate then I may have to change something after my next appointment.

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Me too! I'm 2 months post op. I was feeling worried about to lose weight too quickly but my surgeon and nutrionist says "Congratulations! You're doing awesome" ????

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