[armywife2aerial]

What is the average amount of waight you lose in the weeks after surgery? More less here is my exampale I am 2 months out I probly lose mabie 3 pounds a week or so is this normal this soon out I thought mabie you loss faster then that.

trust me i am in nooooooooo rush!! I am thrilled with my waight loss I just wanted to make shore that i was not lossing it slow compaired to others.

I just about everything i want but rice,posta, bread,steak, fried foods.

I usualy make things like

eggs for b/f everyday made all differnt ways
chicken feheta- NO berito with cheese on top and sour cream
boca meatless meats
chicken marsalla
rosemarry chicken
pork with garlic
pot roast carrots baby onions mushrooms celery potatos and lipton onion soup
beef stroginoff with no posta just lean hamberger and mushrooms
maranara sause with hamburger/ sasage cut up very small
as a side to all of these i have veggies, apple sauce, or peaches in water,yogert

hmmmm just wondering what ya thought

[Kenyar]

i never read anything that said X amount per week or month or what have you. i have been all over the place never losing the exact same amount over a given period of time. there were weeks where i lost 5 or 6 lbs and weeks when i only lost ounces. i would be interested to see what doc has to say though...

[armywife2aerial]

hmmmm thats good to know thought i must just be randum i gess.

I also would be interest to see what DOC has to say the body is very interesting and i works in misterious ways

I think my waight is comeing off just fine i just wanted to see if it seemed normal though or if it was comeing of slower then normal

Darn it all i just wanna be normal

[A new me]

Yeah Im curious too what Doc says. I know that everyone is different depending on how much they weighed and how tall they are. I know Lisa once did a comparison of her and Shelley and in the end they lost the same amount.

[A new me]

Ashley your doing super. You have lost 85 pounds and you had surgery only back in June. Your doing super. Keep up the great work.

[Kenyar]

gee now that i think about it, i wish i did lose the same amoutn each week...then i could calculate when i would be done

you ARE doing super ashley!

[armywife2aerial]

my surgery was in july but i did medafast for 5 weeks before thats why im down 85

[DocSanae]

Well, basically, if you have more to lose, you usually lose *faster* so to speak. The rate of losing, as in how many % of the excess weight probably is pretty close for everyone when calculated accurately.

The usual equation given is that you will lose half of the excess weight you carry in the first 6 months--but not in one smooth fell swoop but in waves, mind you-- then 1/4 in the next 6 months, and the last 1/4 in the next 6-12 months. In other words, you probably will lose about 75% of your excess weight over the first year, and the rest over the next year, and your weight will probably level out at around 18-24 months after surgery.

If you want my honest opinion, then don't even count how many lbs you lose per week, per month, nor try to calculate from the past pattern where you will be in a week, in a month, because it sure ain't gonna move that way.
If you stick to your surgeon's instructions, you should be able to lose willy nilly, so let your body work on its own schedule, don't stress and mess with your head by trying to figure out how much you should lose when, because if your body's schedule is different from the schedule you think you should keep, that is going to mess with your head and won't do you any good.

((((((HUGS))))))

[A new me]

Doc that last line in your post is so true. "that is going to mess with your head and wont do you any good." This whole process does mess with our heads and I have learned to take each day as it comes and do the best I can and follow directions from my surgeon. I feel that alot of all this is all up in our heads.

[Trulykath]

yes...my head thinks I should be a size 3...my body has a complete separate agenda!

I am 7.5 weeks out and down 43 pounds....roughly 5 pounds a week....I don't know if it will increase with the exercise program I just started or not. I expect it to slow down. When I went in for the 3 week follow up right after surgery, I had lost 25....so really only 18 more pounds in the last 4 weeks....he told me I was on the high side at that time....I guess it varies from person to person...depending on how much you have to lose, where you start from etc!