Your opinion about slow loss?

[Aijan 55]

I am a low BMIer (only here would being 60 lbs overweight be considered a low BMI thing...blows my mind). Anyhow,, I had surgery at the very end of May and have lost 31-32 lbs. I am 19 lbs from content and 29 lbs from some insurance chart's version of a healthy weight.

I am going to step up the exercise but wanted to say I am good w/this. I would rather go slow than drop 50 lbs in a month and then gain it all back. How are you guys feeling about slow loss?

[Introversion 1,876]

I am 2.5 years out and was a slower loser...to provide some context, it took me 17+ months to lose 100 lbs whereas a few others have lost that amount of weight in 3 months.

Nobody gives a rat's ass how slowly or quickly we lose except for us. It's the final result that matters: achieving our goal weight and maintaining it for life.

Good luck to everyone.

[Amburmist 55]

I, too, am a slow loser. I have 110lbs to lose and had my procedure Sept 13th. At 6 weeks out, I've only lost 23lbs, and the recent 10lbs loss was because i had a stomach bug for a 1.5 weeks and wasn't eating/having diarhea. Regardless, we'll go with 23lbs down because i am now 287lbs. Like@introversion said, others would have lost that amount in 2-3 weeks, so it's a little discouraging, to me. I weigh on Sundays and between last Sunday and today, the # on the scale remained the same. That's what's been happening this entire 6 weeks. Week to week, the number is either the same or 1lb difference. I try not to let it affect me but when ur watching what u eat, exercising, and only ingesting 600-700 cals a day, one can't help but feel frustrated and wonder if the weight will ever come off??!
Alas, i have no choice (because of the procedure) but to keep going and the number on the scale is going to do what it's going to do. I just wish I could feel encouragement by seeing the numbers drop.@introversion - during that year of slow weightloss, did u have these same doubts? These same concerns?

[Introversion 1,876]

1 hour ago, Amburmist said:

@introversion - during that year of slow weightloss, did u have these same doubts? These same concerns?

Yes, I did. I began to believe I was one of the few people who wouldn't see results with bariatric surgery.

However, I focused on the positive aspects. While I could lose massive amounts of weight prior to surgery, I always regained it all plus more. Surgery offered the only hope of keeping whatever weight I lost off for good.

Now, my slow weight loss phase is Water under the bridge. I have no regrets about undergoing surgery and only wish the gastric sleeve was more popular a decade ago.