I'm one week post-op, and down 15 pounds according to my scale. While I'm very excited to see the numbers go down so quickly, I know that drop will slow (or even stop for a bit) once I start getting real food back into my diet. So when did you start "counting" your weight loss as pounds you'd officially lost - did you wait until after your first post-op appointment, or until you started solid food, or did you start counting it right away? (And am I nuts for even asking this?! )

Right away!!!

I never let a lost pound go by uncounted...

And once I lose it, I never up it back up unless I regain over 5 pounds. I figure that allows me plenty of room for normal weight fluctuations.

Donali, I like the way you think! I'm going to change my sig to show my 15-pound weight loss right now!

i counted mine from the first time i got weighed since my most recent gain. i had been embarassed to go to the dr so it was at my surgeons office.

i weighed at a hospital last week wich was 2 weeks post of and i had lost 18!!!! bringing my total weight loss to 22!!!! -since july 1.

i did lose some weigh in june but since i didnt know what i weighed i dont know what i lost or my *true* highest weight was.

i am with donali any pound lost is a pound counted!

(now that i know what i weigh i am not afraid of a scale)

I've wondered about this myself. Over the last year, since making the decision to get banded, I'd lost almost 30 lbs as a result of a combination of things. But I can't count that as being surgery-related, so I won't consider it when I start posting stats. Then, once I won my insurance battle and knew I was going to get banded, I put back on about 5 pounds doing the last-supper thing. But I don't want to count those either.

I'm figuring that my weight on the day of surgery is my top weight for the purposes of tracking loss. Of course, they didn't weigh me at the hospital so I'm really going by the weight at the doctor's office about 10 days before surgery. But since then I'm 11 lbs down and don't intend to let any of them go uncounted!