6 month post surgery -

[matt917 17]

I’m wondering how everyone is tracking at their 6 month mark.

I had my surgery May 3rd this year.

My starting weight before pre surgery diet was 309. I’m at 233 as of today and hopefully I’ll get to 225 by 11/3


I was hoping to reach 200 by the end of the year but I don’t think it’s possible.

My goal weight is 160.

[catwoman7 11,223]

I lost all of my excess weight (over 200 lbs), but it did take close to two years to do it. Weight loss slows down the further out you go, but if you continue to work hard, you can always lose more weight.

[hills&valleys 130]

Since we all started at different weights, heights, etc., I find comparisons to be best evaluated by percentage of body weight lost. At 6 months, I had lost 28.5% of my body weight. Now at 7 months and one week, I have now lost an additional 4%, for a total of 32.5% of my starting weight. Comparisons are a gauge but be careful when comparing yourself to others. We may all be vying for the same destination of better health and slimmer selves but our journey is uniquely our own with hills and valleys.

[Nepenthe44 188]

In the same vein as @hills&valleys, we all start out wildly different. The most comparable metric between people is percent excess body weight lost.

Your "ideal" body weight is around 145 lb, assuming you're a man. You started with an excess body weight of 164 lbs and you've lost 76 lbs of that or 46%. At the 18 month mark, for RNY, you expect to have lost around 70% of your EBW, so you seem to be doing fine.

I'm at about the 6 month post-op mark and I've lost 64% of my EBW from when I started my pre-op diet, and 79% of my EBW counting from my highest weight a few years before surgery.

[JLNug 11]

Hill & Valleys: Thank you. I appreciate your reply to this. Too many times, in many aspects of life, we compare ourselves to others; it is very detrimental to our self-esteem, expectations, and quality of life. Percentages is certainly the way to go as it demonstrates proportionality instead of arbitrary numbers.

[NCL04321 163]

3 hours ago, catwoman7 said:

I lost all of my excess weight (over 200 lbs), but it did take close to two years to do it. Weight loss slows down the further out you go, but if you continue to work hard, you can always lose more weight.

How much do you exercise if i may ask?

[Spinoza 1,467]

Oh lord OP I asked exactly the same question here 18 months ago!

The answer is there is no answer. The more I research WLS the more I believe that the surgery plus our dedication to our programmes plus our bodies determine our eventual weight.

If you adhere to your surgeon's/team's goals then I think you'll be OK.

I wish you the best of luck.