Hi - Slow is good. It keeps your metabolic rate level and the weight will continue to come off when you have only a small amount to lose. My friend and I were banded within 3 weeks of each other - Dec 2007 and Jan 2008, she was always ahead of me but her weight fluctuated much more, but now we are down to near target weight I am 148 and she is still 158 and yo yo ing - we go to a support group and the dietician explained why this yo yoing is not good. Sally feels she is not losing enough so will be very strict - but then she can't keep it up so will cheat a bit whereas I have never denied myself anything and of course am naughty on occasion but the weight is dropping oh so slowly now but in the 20 months - my weight has not gone up once, and the loss is probably less thank 1lb a month now - I still have 8-10lb to go but as I feel so good now and look slim - I don't care how long it takes. Sally has been told that she needs to stop trying to lose any more and to maintain her current weight for at least 4 months to get her metabolism straight and then to reduce her calorie intake by only a 100 a day so she doesn't go back into "starvation mode". A quick fix is what we all look for initially but be comforted that many banders who reach their target weights were slow but steady losers. Hope this helps. Carry on the good work
