Started at 29 BMI

[erica_ozzy73 241]

I was a 30 BMI at around 84kgs at 5ft 6.. 5th dec 2016 to now I'm 69kgs.

No problems with Water intake at all from day 1.

I eat Protein mostly then very low carb veg with hardly any carbs.

It's not been that bad.

Doc said I should get to 60kgs... ummmmm don't think so and I don't care if I stay where I am now.

Blood pressure tablets are now lowered but still on 200micros of thryroxine

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Edited January 10, 2017 by erica_ozzy73

[Jazzzyjay 222]

Hey all!! Since my last post, I've changed careers, bought a house and completely changed my life!!

Quick check in: I'm now 125 lbs, losing about 4 pounds a month at almost 6 months. I still work out religiously and can almost see abs.

This surgery is the best thing that EVER happened to me! ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1482785203.315714.jpg

ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1482785231.479453.jpg

ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1482785252.281820.jpg ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1482785283.884374.jpg

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

You look amazing!

Sent from my Y538 using the BariatricPal App

[LowBMISleever 381]

Do not, have not & will not EVER regret this surgery!

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

[trenth 48]

I'm a 33 bmi and 4 years ago was a 25. Like you I too am sick of the yo-yo. Getting sleeved Jan 13th in Mexico. I think I will start a journey thread like you and Lord willing have similar results! Great job with your sleeve.

Sent from my SM-T813 using the BariatricPal App

[Glam ma 7]

Have any of you regretted getting surgery? I'm scheduled Jan 17 for RNY my highest weight was 245 my current weight is 194.

Sent from my Y538 using the BariatricPal App

Best decision of my life

Sent from my SM-N910P using the BariatricPal App

[LowBMISleever 381]

#noregrets

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

[Jazzzyjay 222]

ImageUploadedByBariatricPal1484082256.825367.jpg

#noregrets

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Wow!!! I hope I can look like that soon. Although my tummy has been stretched by babies so unless I get plastics no bikini for this gal

Sent from my Y538 using the BariatricPal App

[Jazzzyjay 222]

What is the average weight loss per month for low BMIers?

Sent from my Y538 using the BariatricPal App

[LowBMISleever 381]

We lose a lot the first month - like 10-15. Then maybe 7 - 10 the next month. Then 5 - 10. It's not really an average - the farther out from surgery you are, the less you lose. I'm basically 6 months out, and I lost 3 pounds last month - BUT I'm also at goal. Everything I'm losing now is just icing on the cake.

Just plan to stick to your meal plan and exercise the first 6 months & you'll get to goal within those months as long as you have less than 70 pounds to lose. I lost 55 and only had 50 to lose.

Just my experience though

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

[Jazzzyjay 222]

We lose a lot the first month - like 10-15. Then maybe 7 - 10 the next month. Then 5 - 10. It's not really an average - the farther out from surgery you are, the less you lose. I'm basically 6 months out, and I lost 3 pounds last month - BUT I'm also at goal. Everything I'm losing now is just icing on the cake.

Just plan to stick to your meal plan and exercise the first 6 months & you'll get to goal within those months as long as you have less than 70 pounds to lose. I lost 55 and only had 50 to lose.

Just my experience though

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

OK great thank you!! I want to loose 70. Maybe if I workout more I can get there.

Sent from my Y538 using the BariatricPal App

[LowBMISleever 381]

Remember, your pre-surgery diet will have you losing around 10 pounds before you even have the surgery!

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

[hats123 67]

My overall trajectory follows what @@LowBMISleever described.

I'm looking at my monitoring app now:

Pre op to one month post op (so 1 month + 1 week) - 21 lbs

Month 2 post op - 14 lbs

Month 3 post op - 7 lbs

Month 4 post op - 8 lbs

Month 5 post op - 8 lbs

Tomorrow is exactly 5 months post op. I'm down 58 lbs from the start of pre op, which puts me exactly at my original goal (which as I've mentioned in another post I've adjusted a bit, to get back to the weight I was for many years). But if I didn't lose another ounce and was able to maintain here, that'd be a huge success. Unimaginable just this past summer.

(I, too, have the post-baby belly, and the bikini situation is not happening here...but I feel infinitely better in my body, that's for sure!)

Cannot say enough about how this surgery has affected me positively.

Good luck to everyone!

[Jazzzyjay 222]

My overall trajectory follows what @@LowBMISleever described.

I'm looking at my monitoring app now:

Pre op to one month post op (so 1 month + 1 week) - 21 lbs

Month 2 post op - 14 lbs

Month 3 post op - 7 lbs

Month 4 post op - 8 lbs

Month 5 post op - 8 lbs

Tomorrow is exactly 5 months post op. I'm down 58 lbs from the start of pre op, which puts me exactly at my original goal (which as I've mentioned in another post I've adjusted a bit, to get back to the weight I was for many years). But if I didn't lose another ounce and was able to maintain here, that'd be a huge success. Unimaginable just this past summer.

(I, too, have the post-baby belly, and the bikini situation is not happening here...but I feel infinitely better in my body, that's for sure!)

Cannot say enough about how this surgery has affected me positively.

Good luck to everyone!

Awesome..That's pretty great. Thank you. Now I have kind of a sense of what it will be like.

Sent from my Y538 using the BariatricPal App

[LowBMISleever 381]

So it was my 6 month surgiversary, and I went to a wedding in the Keys (spent 4 days there). Ate what was served in a grazing-style all day, every day and drank to my heart's content (rum punch, wine, bushwhackers, margaritas). I did not work out. Overall, I was absolutely horrible. I gained 5 pounds. Got right back on the wagon yesterday, but WOW have I been hungry. Totally not worth it. I'm down 2 lbs already, but I'm irritable, hungry and mad at myself. Anyway, just a reminder that the surgery does NOT do all the work for us. It's just a tool. We have to use it. Just sharing

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Edited January 31, 2017 by LowBMISleever

[LowBMISleever 381]

...last selfie before I sabotaged my diet lol

So happy to be back on track! But man I miss the bushwhackers...

Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Edited February 3, 2017 by LowBMISleever