Someone who's a year post op

[Aribay1 198]

I just want to know.

are you at goal?

If so how long did it take you?

How much weight were you looking into loosing?

Hows your mental state?

I ask because im almost 7 months and my mind isnt catching up to my physical body. I somwtimes have trouble seeing the changes.

Im 7 months out and have lost 63lbs. Im 196lbs and my first goal is a healthy bmi which would be 170lbs for my height. And from there maybe ill want to loose more. At 7 months out i felt like i would be at goal seeing as i compare myself way too much to everyone elses journey. I staled for 2 months and i believe im staling again. I just want these 26lbs gone!! Any advice on staling or just bettering myself?

[Healthy_life2 8,324]

@@Aribay1

You are doing fantastic. You already know about comparing yourself to other people on here. The rate you drop weight is not important. Its the fact that YOU ARE dropping weight that matters.

My advice is find a good motivation. What ever that is for you.

Its summer. Great time to up your work out game. Find some fun and exciting active things to do. Mix it up

You already know the basics.protein Water track food. Look at what you have accomplished so far!

I'm 11 months out. I hope my mind will catch up with the weight loss. A few things to try: Put some pictures up to remind yourself how far you have come. I hope you saved a piece of clothing from your high weight. It helps on days when you cant see the loss to try on the old clothes and feel how big they are to you now.

Stalls will happen. Just keep going! it will break.

[livvsmum 2,369]

I just want to know.

are you at goal?

If so how long did it take you?

How much weight were you looking into loosing?

Hows your mental state?

I ask because im almost 7 months and my mind isnt catching up to my physical body. I somwtimes have trouble seeing the changes.

Im 7 months out and have lost 63lbs. Im 196lbs and my first goal is a healthy bmi which would be 170lbs for my height. And from there maybe ill want to loose more. At 7 months out i felt like i would be at goal seeing as i compare myself way too much to everyone elses journey. I staled for 2 months and i believe im staling again. I just want these 26lbs gone!! Any advice on staling or just bettering myself?

You are doing well so far! I will tell you , though, that when I hit around 7 months, things seemed to change a bit and the "magic of the sleeve' seemed to go away and it became more good old fashioned work, just like before, but now I had this awesome "tool" to help me. One huge factor for me was counseling weekly with an eating disorder therapist. I started at 7 months post op, and now I'm 20 months post op and I have gone weekly since then. I know for a fact I woulnd't have been successful without working through the emotional stuff. BUt, to answer your specific questions:

are you at goal?

YES. My first "realistic goal was 150. My "dream goal" was 125. I've reached both.

If so how long did it take you? I was at my first goal by 10 months post op. I just now (2o months post op reached my "dream goal"

How much weight were you looking into loosing?I hoped to lose 100 pounds, I've lost 155.

Hows your mental state? Right now I'm stronger every day, but like I said above I've done A LOT of work on the emotional side of eating. I wouldn't not be at my "dream goal" without all of the hard work that I've done emotionally through therapy. If you haven't looked into it, I highly recommend it.

You can read more about my whole journey in my blog if you want (in my signature)

[kimpossible67 608]

37 lbs from goal. Dropped 134 lbs. I'm out 13 mths.

[Mrs.RRn 2,111]

Hi!

I hit my goal around 7 months. And then I hit my stretch goal between 7 months and a year. The first year was full of so many changes. It wasn't until after my 1st Surgeversary that my emotions began level & I began to feel more comfortable. There's still times that I'm flipping through photos and I don't recognize myself. I'm pretty much obsessed with mirrors because I'm still caught off guard by my reflection.

Don't compare yourself to others. Don't discount your story ... Because, well, it's YOUR STORY... Stalls included.

Just keep going. This is a process, a lifestyle- not a race.

Best of luck!