Share your "slow loss" success!

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OMG! You look fabulous! I am so excited for you!

That is extraordinary!! You are a true testament to never giving up! I had to figure it out, and you lost 60% of your weight!! That is astonishing and an amazing accomplishment as it is crazy if someone even loses half their body weight! Make sure you come and join us on the Vet board as I am sure you have some amazing insight!!

[Sherri297 81]

SleeveGirl-TX

Your a true inspiration to never give up. Thanks for posting your story.

[Dee White 140]

So' date=' I just thought I'd update my status on this thread. I reached goal yesterday. It took 2 years and 23 days, but I finally hit 225 pounds lost. I started at 375 and now weigh 150. Slow? I guess that depends on how you look at it. I didn't lose it all in a year and I didn't stop when it got hard, but I did it.

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u look amazing

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So, I just thought I'd update my status on this thread. I reached goal yesterday. It took 2 years and 23 days, but I finally hit 225 pounds lost. I started at 375 and now weigh 150. Slow? I guess that depends on how you look at it. I didn't lose it all in a year and I didn't stop when it got hard, but I did it.

And wow! You have lost a tremendous amount of weight and look great! Congrats on finally reaching goal. What an inspiration to people that get frustrated when they aren't at goal within a year, and also to the folks the have more than 100 pounds to lose. Simply amazing work - congrats!!

~Cheri

[Kalimomof3 613]

The thread was moved into a group. It's certainly not any attempt to exclude anyone - I think we just wanted to carry on with conversations that were a little more private.

~Cheri

[Bos123 221]

We've been excluded lol..

[ljperez 87]

Can we join the group? How?

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We've been excluded lol..

There were a lot of concerns of people newly out of surgery or less than year out trying this method instead of following their surgeons guidelines as well.

You can join the group, but they have put some rules in place. You need to be a year out from surgery and have committed to trying the 5:2 method to see if you like it. You can request to join and one of the moderators has to approve you.

[Kalimomof3 613]

My newest pic from today @ 147 pounds ...I am thinking 22 lbs more to go but I would still be happy with 12 more lbs

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My newest pic from today @ 147 pounds ...I am thinking 22 lbs more to go but I would still be happy with 12 more lbs

You look fabulous!!

[taurabird 142]

I am pretty new, I was sleeved on June 5th. So far I have lost 22 lbs at the 6 week mark. I seem to be losing about 2 lbs a week now. I am thrilled with this rate of loss.

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Keep this thread going! I want to see as many stories as possible that reflect the moderate and downright slow pace some of us experience.

I'm three years out. I lost slowly. In fact, I'm sloooowly shedding the last couple pounds of baby weight. It's just as aggravatingly slow and painful as it was to lose the first time.

But is the woman in these pictures any less a success for taking longer? NO.

I want this thread full of good stories so that I can spam every freakout post about stalls or slow loss I see with a link to it, to say "See?! It happens, relax!"

I do not want this to be a Yay Cheri thread - I want to see OTHER stories here, too! Contribute, please!

~Cheri

[Oliver's Mom 258]

Cheri - you look amazing!!! I love all of your posts - you have the calm voice in the sometimes chaotic chatter.

I lost pretty quickly at the very beginning of the process, but have been a 'slow loser' for 4 months now and I am OK with that.

I have committed to this way of eating and exercising for the rest of my life - and like anything in life, I know there will be ups & downs.

I'm 9 pounds from goal - at 8 months out from surgery. Losing .2 or .4 and holding for a week or two at a time. My WLS team says I might go down a little bit from that by 1 year out then gain a bit back and stabilize.

I'd like to be stable at 140, and firm up my abs a bit. I don't think I'll have any plastics on my stomach or legs, but have a consult scheduled in 2 weeks for info on a breast reduction/lift. Want to have several months to sock away the $$ for the surgery. Maybe down the road, 2 years out I'll have my arms done, but right now I am Ok with them.

Your baby is beautiful and she looks so happy.

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thank you sooo much for sharing this! Yes I get discouraged, I admit it. but I will not give up! at 6 months out i am down 52 pounds. I weigh 180 and need to lose between 35-45 more pounds.

surgery success

Date. Weight Lost. TTL Lost

jan 21- wt 232 day of surgery

feb 21- wt 217. -15 pds

mar 21- 206. -11 pds (26 total)

apr 21- 202. -4 pds (30 total)

may 21- 191. -11 pds (41 total)

june 21-185. -6 pds (47 total)

July 21-180. -5 pds (52 total)

Aug 21 -

[Fair2bslimLady 72]

Thank you for this thread!!! I started at 248 and now at 197lbs, 51 pounds in five months was sleeved 1/28/13 and so much happier and healthier once I started going to the gym my body loved it and the pounds where flying off now it seems like its taking a break and that's ok with me because I started at a size 18 and now a size 12 so my body is still losing inches even if I don't move on the scale, just keep eating clean and working out, being healthy does not have an expiration date or a goal weight that you can stop being healthy. Stay strong it's hard I know, but remember its hard to be fat too and I rather fight to be healthy. On bad days I try on clothes that never fit before and tell myself to just push through it.....