Average loss?

[RNBSN786 206]

I think it all depends on what your current weight is..10 days before surgery I lost 10 pounds and I had my surgery on march 31. Today is may 30 and I have lost 27 pounds in 2 months which is about 3 weeks a pound. I don't want it to be rapid weight loss but more steady. The idea is to keep going and meeting your goals and eating Proteins. The day of my surgery I was 200 and now I am 173.

Edited May 31, 2014 by RNBSN786

[chasingadream 1,311]

Different people…different sizes…different metabolism…..different calorie intake…different amount of exercise…..different lives…..

…its going to result in a TON of different experiences with weight loss….

My doc is happy with 1-2 pounds per week.

I agree @@Jim1967 comparing only sets you up for frustration.

Be happy with any loss….big or small….its that much less being carried around.

I didn't gain it overnight and it surely isn't coming off overnight!

[Meintraining 104]

It is such good advice to not compare oneself to others. It is really hard though. I need to keep seeing it to remind myself. When I just think of myself and my own journey I am pleased. When I compare myself to others that had the surgery around the same time I start to get bummed as to why I've not lost as much as them. That's a slippery slope for me because I start to feel betrayed by my body. I have to work extra hard, exercise more extreme but that's just the way it goes. It's the only way. I now realize this surgery was the only way I could have gotten to the weight I am now. All these same things I did before the surgery was not getting me there. For whatever reason that scale is going downward instead of up for the first time in my life and I am so happy about it!