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So when I called my new surgeon, he asked me how much weight I've lost since September. When I told him 62 pounds, he got queit and said "just 62...since September?"

Is that not good? I know in December it will be 12 months, how much weight am I supposed to lose in the first 12 months anyway?

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I read somewhere that 20 pounds per month is average and most people lose at least 100 by the end of a year. Be so proud of yourself though and how far you've come! Maybe you lose slower but the scale is going in the right direction. Congrats!!!

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I read somewhere that 20 pounds per month is average and most people lose at least 100 by the end of a year. Be so proud of yourself though and how far you've come! Maybe you lose slower but the scale is going in the right direction. Congrats!!!

Thanks! I've had set backs with medical issues and medication but I'm so happy I am losing weight again.

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Some lose faster but 62lbs is a good amount of weight to lose! Your surgeon may be concerned that you usually lose the most weight the first 9-12 months with Bypass and then it can slow down. Maybe he'll have a plan for you to lose faster.

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Some lose faster but 62lbs is a good amount of weight to lose! Your surgeon may be concerned that you usually lose the most weight the first 9-12 months with Bypass and then it can slow down. Maybe he'll have a plan for you to lose faster.

Hopefully but he literally said "62 is poor weight loss" and that made me feel like a failure.

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Some lose faster but 62lbs is a good amount of weight to lose! Your surgeon may be concerned that you usually lose the most weight the first 9-12 months with Bypass and then it can slow down. Maybe he'll have a plan for you to lose faster.

Hopefully but he literally said "62 is poor weight loss" and that made me feel like a failure.

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You're not a failure - that would be someone who didn't try at all and lost nothing! Could you have lost more - probably - but it's not too late! Stay strong!

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Your surgeon needs to work on his people skills. But most do.

First of all, there's no such thing as what you're supposed to lose by a certain time. Everyone is different. At my 6 week appt they told me that some people lose the majority of their weight in the first 6 months & some take 2 years.

But remember, the closer you get to goal weight, the slower the weight loss is.

Second: look at what you're doing & see if it needs tweaking. Are you getting your Protein & Water in? Staying under your cal goal? Exercising enough? Are you keeping carbs under 50g?

Some programs (including mine) say it's ok to eat whole grain bread & other complex carbs but I stay away from those things completely as they have no nutritional value for us when we are limited to so few calories. (I only get 600 cals per day. There's no way I'm wasting 100 of those on a piece of bread).

If you're doing what you're supposed to then you're not a failure. Just keep doing it.

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Im 6 months out and already lost 96 pounds. Im almost at my 100 lbs mark ????. But everyone is different. Results will all be different. 62 lbs is a lot of weight to lose. Try exercising more it may help.

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Yes, a lot of surgeon's probably could use better bedside manners but they have also learned that sugar coating doesn't really get the message across most the time. 62 lbs is not necessarily a failure but depending on your starting weight I would imagine at 6 months 80 to 120 lbs would be in the ball park of expected weight loss unless you were a low bmi where I would think 62 lbs is perfectly acceptable.

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