I'm upset...

[Berry78 4,259]

2 hours ago, TheNewMrsR said:

Thanks for the visual breakdown by month. That's really helpful! I can only hope and pray mine goes like that... Being a revision band to sleeve, I've read that I should have low expectations... T-21 days till my surgery!!!

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You're welcome What's interesting is I've only had 2 weeks this whole time that I recorded zero losses. Lots of 1 pound weeks, then, BAM, 4 pounds! Lol. I hear enough about that phenomenon on here, that it's perfectly typical (as is having multi-week stalls... lots of range of "typical").

Here's a little story:

So I was 6 weeks postop, and down, what.. 40lbs. including the preop diet (I started at 305). I was so excited! I was updating my MIL on my progress, and, to be honest.. 265 is still really fat... but my MIL was like, "Shouldn't you have lost more by now? I thought you'd be at goal in like 3 months".

After I picked up my jaw off the floor, I was like, "Don't you realize I was 150lbs over weight, and if I were on a regular dieting program, losing 2 pounds a week, it would take a year and a half to get to goal? Why should surgery really make it that much faster?" I guess that put things into perspective for her.

After all, the body can only burn so much in a day, and the disassembling of the fat cells, blood vessels, skin shrinkage (hopefully).. all these things are HUGE amounts of work for the body to perform. 400 million cells in a pound of body fat. 400 MILLION! And we expect that stuff to just pour off of us like water... I do wish the cells would disappear altogether, but, alas, we just get to make them "skinny". Sigh.

And good luck on your surgery!!!

[Apple203 1,314]

berry, you are such a voice of reason on this board -- thanks for keeping us grounded in reality :-)

[Amburmist 55]

Agree with@apple203! Thank u@berry78! Your feedback is helpful, respectful, insightful, and realistic. Thank u for helping me reel myself back in! Yes, our expectations and hopes can often start running away from us, so it's nice to have you as a calm within our storm to help us refocus. You're awesome and much appreciated!