How did you or your doctor determine your final goal weight? Doc and I haven't talked about that yet and I'm curious how people calculate it.

I'm 5'8 and via a 1 year long liquid diet went from 350 to 180 lbs. 180 for me was perfect for my frame, bearing in mind dome of the extra weight I had from excess skin. I also had a fair bit of muscle as I worked out a lot. Sadly, I'm back to 300 lbs as I get ready to be sleeved.

I think that is what a lot of us have been through - losing weight and then gaining it back. Sometimes I think "hey, you can do this with just a diet, you've done it before". But then I remember that I gained it all back (plus more). It's been such a cycle time and time again. I'm hoping that with the sleeve, when I'm weak, it will help me get through.

When is your surgery?

I just got my date yesterday and will be going in on May 2. My pre op meeting is 4/19, which is my birthday. I think it's kind of poetic[emoji846]. I fall down with the nutrition but actually still work out and see a personal trainer twice a week. I think this will help with my recovery that I'm going in to surgery being pretty fit (for a really fat person anyway).

I thought long and hard about surgery and always thought, let me try one more time on my own. I haven't gotten anywhere except fatter and I thought to myself, what am I waiting for? I don't want to be in this same position in 5 years having been losing and gaining again. So I decided to just do it.

3 hours ago, barefoot_gardener said:

How do you determine body fat? I've always sworn I'm "big boned", but who knows. Maybe I can be small.

The nutritionist has a body composition scale. Immediately prior to surgery I was 44% fat... nice, hey? For a woman my age the healthy range is 21-33% body fat and they recommend the goal being 30%.

How did you or your doctor determine your final goal weight? Doc and I haven't talked about that yet and I'm curious how people calculate it.

My doc basically said that the average weight loss is 30% and that I can expect to lose 90lbs and made that my goal. He said that once I reached that I could work to lose 40 to 50 more but the 90 is the expected goal.

I just got my date yesterday and will be going in on May 2. My pre op meeting is 4/19, which is my birthday. I think it's kind of poetic[emoji846]. I fall down with the nutrition but actually still work out and see a personal trainer twice a week. I think this will help with my recovery that I'm going in to surgery being pretty fit (for a really fat person anyway).
I thought long and hard about surgery and always thought, let me try one more time on my own. I haven't gotten anywhere except fatter and I thought to myself, what am I waiting for? I don't want to be in this same position in 5 years having been losing and gaining again. So I decided to just do it.

Mine is on May 9th, so just a week after!

The nutritionist has a body composition scale. Immediately prior to surgery I was 44% fat... nice, hey? For a woman my age the healthy range is 21-33% body fat and they recommend the goal being 30%.

Well, I looked online for calculators and one said 28% and another said 50-some %. I'm betting mine is more towards the 50% [emoji6].