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03-09-2010, 10:25 PM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Illinois
Posts: 155
Weight Statistics forever Start Date:
Surgery date was Dec 30th 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
311 lb Start Weight:
245 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
66 lb Weight Loss:
75 lb Lb Left to Lose:
21.2218649518 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index50.1912304867 BMI Start:
39.5397153352 BMI Current:
27.4357208448 BMI Goal:
|  worried about not losing fast enough
As for what different doctors say...I was on clear liquids for 3 days, full liquids 7 days, pureed food for 2 weeks, soft foods for 1 week and then eat high protein low carb low sugar foods that I can tolerate. I have not once felt like I have over ate. Never have barfed or got the foamies or dumped. I worry my surgery didn't take! I don't feel I have lost as quickly as most of you on here seem to have. I haven't gotten on the scale since Jan 28th and I go back to weigh on March 3oth. I guess I will see then. But I am worried! Everyone on here talks about dropping sizes rapidly and such. My clothes before surgery were so tight I looked and felt like a stuffed sausage. I am a little over 2 months out and they are just now starting to fit comfortably and a little loose. I drink protein 2 times a day and eat more protein at supper and that is all I have everyday. I am getting all my water and vitamins in and walking at work on break and getting to the Y a couple times a week in between my 2 jobs. If I get on that scale and haven't at least dropped 40 total, I will be devastated. Ok...I am done whining! Thanks for reading and sympathizing. I love you guys! 
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03-09-2010, 11:01 PM
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| | Cub Reporter
Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: louisiana
Posts: 69
Weight Statistics 11/10/2009 Surgery Date:
5' 7"
Height:
266 lb Start Weight:
165 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
101 lb Weight Loss:
25 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.969924812 % % Lost:
12/2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.6569391847 BMI Start:
25.8398306973 BMI Current:
21.924704834 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I bet you are going to be very suprised at your weigh in in a few weeks! You seem to be doing everything right. I am four months out and although I have lost 60 lbs, my clothes are just starting to get to be too big for me. For awhile, I felt like everyone else was telling me I had lost weight, but I couldnt really tell myself. Good luck!
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03-10-2010, 03:18 AM
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| | Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 23,801
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Clothes sizes don't seem to drop that quickly the first couple of months, give it a bit more time.
You sound like you are doing everything you should, so don't fret over your weight. Your body's going to do what it needs to do in its own time, not on your mind's time, so just go along with the wild ride that you are on.
(((HUGS))) You're doing fine.
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03-10-2010, 09:27 AM
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| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: New England
Posts: 300
Weight Statistics January 12 Start Date:
Feb. 23, 2010 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
284 lb Start Weight:
147 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
137 lb Weight Loss:
-23 lb Lb Left to Lose:
48.2394366197 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index45.8337924702 BMI Start:
23.7238292011 BMI Current:
27.4357208448 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Persistence will eventually show you the results. In away it doesn't matter how other people's bodies react. Your body is doing it its way. Trust that the weight will come off and keep up the good work.
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03-10-2010, 09:41 AM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, Okla USA
Posts: 2,549
Weight Statistics 05/17/02 Start Date:
05/17/02 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
355 lb Start Weight:
190 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
165 lb Weight Loss:
15 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.4788732394 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index59.0686390533 BMI Start:
31.6142011834 BMI Current:
29.1183431953 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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sweetie, this is not an overnight process or even a 3 mo/6mo one..it's a LIFETIME process. Everyone loses at different paces. So just remember this. We all wanted it to happen overnight and there are some silly people in the world who think when we have this surgery it's an overnight process like plastic surgery..wake up and wa la you're thin! ha!
We lose, for some even beyond the 2 years mark to get to 'goal' Some reach their 'goal' quickly in that 6 mos period. and others take the full year to 2 years.
everyone is different! But at the END of it...we all DO lose the weight.
Just keep on track with what you are doing..walk, drink your WATER...staying hydrated is MUCH more important than the food post op..MUCH more!
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03-10-2010, 09:43 AM
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| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Jackson MN
Posts: 216
Weight Statistics 1-4-2010 Start Date:
2-17-2010 Surgery Date:
6' 3"
Height:
399 lb Start Weight:
273 lb Current Weight:
250 lb Goal Weight:
126 lb Weight Loss:
23 lb Lb Left to Lose:
31.5789473684 % % Lost:
Before I die Goal Date:
Body Mass Index49.8661333333 BMI Start:
34.1189333333 BMI Current:
31.2444444444 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I know exactly how you feel. I don't weigh myself either. But I don't feel like I'm losing as fast as everyone else. Right after surgery I noticed some loss but it sure seems slow now.
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03-10-2010, 11:18 AM
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| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Farmington, NM
Posts: 200
Weight Statistics 08-04-09 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
228 lb Start Weight:
124 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
104 lb Weight Loss:
-6 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.6140350877 % % Lost:
Aug 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index39.1318359375 BMI Start:
21.2822265625 BMI Current:
22.3120117188 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Your doing great! I'm over 7 months out and am still VERY SLOWLY losing weight. Since the middle of Jan til now I have only lost about 5 lbs...but I've gone down another notch in my belt. One of the girls I know that had surgery was below her goal by this time and she had more to lose than me. Our bodies are all different and the weight will come off the way It's s'posed to as long as we stick to the rules.
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03-10-2010, 02:28 PM
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| | WLS Master Guru
Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Birmingham Al
Posts: 685
Weight Statistics July 8th, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
259 lb Start Weight:
174 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
85 lb Weight Loss:
9 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.8185328185 % % Lost:
July 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.79912764 BMI Start:
28.0812672176 BMI Current:
26.6287878788 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Yeah, I've been slow and steady the whole time and I'm 8 months out. My sister had her surgery Dec 1st and she's just about to pass me in pounds lost. Dec 4th 2009 I was 200 lbs. Today I'm 187, that's 13 lbs in 3 months. Don't fret, it will come off; besides I don't have alot of hanging skin since I'm losing slower. People tell me "wow, you're face is still pretty, we were sure you'd look sick by now." I don't know if thats compliment or not, but I'll take it as one lol! You're doing great. One thing I've learned, thanks to BreeChick, is not to play the numbers game: feeling great is such a terrific reward. Good health is even a better one!
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03-10-2010, 04:21 PM
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| | WLS Master Guru
Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Canada
Posts: 578
Weight Statistics July 2009 Start Date:
February 26, 2010 Surgery Date:
5' 2"
Height:
307 lb Start Weight:
143 lb Current Weight:
135 lb Goal Weight:
164 lb Weight Loss:
8 lb Lb Left to Lose:
53.4201954397 % % Lost:
July 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index56.1449011446 BMI Start:
26.1521852237 BMI Current:
24.6891259105 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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This is very encouraging to me your note. I too have had no nausea, vomiting, or dumping and I am 2 weeks out. I am also not getting this full feeling everyone is talking about? I thought maybe I was the only one. And in 2 weeks I have only lost 10 pounds. I am doing everything they tell me to do. I had a really hard time when dieting as well losing weight My body never seemed to want to let go of it?
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03-10-2010, 04:35 PM
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| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Farmington, NM
Posts: 200
Weight Statistics 08-04-09 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
228 lb Start Weight:
124 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
104 lb Weight Loss:
-6 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.6140350877 % % Lost:
Aug 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index39.1318359375 BMI Start:
21.2822265625 BMI Current:
22.3120117188 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I completely agree w Gee Ma. Many of my family also thought I'd look sick after losing so much weight but since I'm losing slower I don't have as much extra skin (don't get me wrong I still have enough lose skin to consider a tummy tuck).
And at only 2 weeks out you still losing all of the fluids that were pumped into you during surgery. I gained 13lbs when I came home and it takes awhile to lose all of that...give it time...this is def not an overnight process but it will come.
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