By my calculations

[Globetrotter 1,340]

I looked back over my online food tracker at my weight loss; by the time I set up my tracker I had already lost 24 lbs since surgery 5 weeks prior (20 of those lbs were in the first 2 weeks post-op btw), but I just now decided to look back at the bulk (ha ha) of my weight loss and calculate on average, how much weight I lost during my steadiest era of loss. in 13 weeks I lost 50 lbs which averages out to about 3.8 lbs a week, that was from the end of month 2 post-op to the start of month 6. It seems no matter what the F*** I do, no matter how morbidly obese, no matter how faithful and perfect a patient I am, I am one SLOW A$$ EFFING LOSER. -.- *cough* sorry about that, little peeved ...

Even when I still weighed in the high 200's (260s), and was eating 600 calories a day with only 20g carbs, I STILL, was only losing a pound every couple of days.

So, has anyone else done calculations like these? How much did you lose, which period post-op, and how much were you eating?

[MichiganChic 3,262]

Oh yeah, I'm a big time tracker. I keep excel spread sheets and try to predictive analysis, lol. It's all futile. I lose on the slow side too, which is exactly how I got in this predicament. I would go on a diet, be MISERABLE, lose a pound or two after a few weeks, and just give up. Now that I can't just give up, what I've learned is that time marches on either way, and I do still lose, sometimes faster than I thought. Also the incessant tracking has shown me that while I think I'm not losing much and have periods of no loss, really a lose a pound or two pretty steadily. Once in a while I see a bigger loss, and sometime 0, but the trend line is going in the right direction. I feel like ranting today because I haven't lost anything in 6 days. I'm at a weight I haven't been able to get below in 25 years, so I figure I might be stuck a bit. You can see my monthly stats below.

[Arts137 1,811]

I am not post surgery, and it REALLY helps to hear the struggels so I can wrap my head around them.

I kinda think (hope) that it'll be like the pre-op preps. Seemed SO LONG at the start and so quick now that I have a surgery date. This time, I will not weigh myself often. I'll just 'do the stuff I need to do', and watch the belt loops... I can get too wrapped up in data. PS, I'd take a 4# loss a week for darned sure!!!

[Globetrotter 1,340]

Yeah, um, that 3.8 pounds per week loss was, if you read my post fully, was during the height of the honeymoon period, I haven't seen loss like that since and comparatively speaking, it's pretty slow for a VSG honeymoon, where people typically lose 50 lbs in the first 3 months not nearly 6.

MichiganChic, it wouldn't let me click on your stats, could you just tell me?