My short story of slow and steady weight loss

[bluebellblue 16]

Hello all

I thought I’d put my first post up to encourage others as I’m definitely a snail not a hare with weight loss, but getting there all the same.

I had lapband surely nearly 15 years ago. Lost nothing. Didn’t work for me at all. Felt like a failure.

Saved up again and decided to have the lapband removed and a bypass. Wasn’t that hopeful due to my previous experience but was desperate. Weighed 310 pounds and BMI 45.

Surgery was fine with no complications. However I only lost a couple of pounds each week for the first few weeks. On about 500-600 calories a day.

As food increases to about 800 calories at week 6, the slow but steady weight loss continued of 1 to 2 pounds a week.

About six month stage I was light enough to join a gym. This made a huge difference to my mental health and energy. I took it slow but went three times a week.

I was now on about 1000 calories a day and losing (you guessed it) 1 to 2 pounds a week.

Sometimes I would lose 4 pounds a week but then nothing the week after.

I didn’t really stall at all. I saw other people posting phenomenal weekly weight loss numbers. Not me!

So here I am a year out and I’m eating about 1200 calories a day and losing 1 to 2 pounds a week. Lost over 100 pounds so far and feel fine plodding on as I am.

So my advice is, keep tracking food, when you can try exercising, and don’t worry if your weight loss is steady like mine. You get there just the same.

And, I’ve never felt better!

[ThinIce 33]

Thank you for sharing your story, very inspirational. My initial weight loss was more typical than yours, but it is slowing down which I expected it to do. I've always been a slow loser too historically. I'm fine with it though. Gives me a chance to build muscle and wear out some of these clothes before it's time to buy a new size!!!!

Also I've never been a fan of all the unsolicited comments others make when I'm losing weight. I'm hoping that slow and stead garners less of this overall.

[Spinoza 1,453]

Thanks for posting this, it's really lovely to hear how different people have different journeys but how lots of us do get there in the end.

[berryboo97 16]

Thank you for sharing

[kcuster83 1,504]

Perfect. Someone out there needs to hear this.

I am glad you did not give up when discouraged! Good for you and congratulations!

[GiGi 1970 28]

Thank you for sharing. I've been very depressed about my weight loss. I started at 258 November.. now 189. I've not lost any weight in 3 months. I know I'm not eating enough. I am not able to workout due to health issues. I just can't go down anymore. In so scared of being like I was again. I can't afford to keep going to the nutritionist to tell me to eat more. I really try.. so discouraged

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