Any other Slooooowwww losers?

[vinesqueen 2]

I'm bumping this thread. When I first read it, I thought that oh how sad for all the slow loosers, I'm gonna be one of the fast loosers, I just know it.

Well, I'm one of the slow ones. Maybe I'm slow because of how very sick I was before I was banded, and it's just taken me a very long time to get better. My son just pointed out to me how sick I really was for several years. So he figures that I'm putting on muscle mass since I'm obviously smaller. Even if the scale hasn't moved, I'm physically smaller. I'm not racking up losses, but rather I'm racking up successes.

[alatina 1]

oh lord do I feel ya on this slooooooow lost thing-I was banded April 27th and have only lost 32 pounds and 18 were in the first 2 weeks-this is unbearable.

[Judy D. 0]

Even knowing what you know now, would you all have had the surgery anyway? I am a self pay and it worry me sometime that I may not lose the weight will this surgery.

[alatina 1]

I think almost everyone would still do it-only a few of us feel as if it may have been a waste of money but it seems as if its just the impatient ones like myself-lol

[vinesqueen 2]

Hi Judy. Even though my scale hasn't been budging, I would definately say that this has been worth it. My health over all has improved in such a short time that I'm amazed at how better I feel and actually am.

For the first time in years, I am symptom free from my asthma. This is a big deal.

[Parvathi 2]

I feel that I'm among the slow losers, but I think almost everyone does. I mean, is it every really enough?

That said, I'd do it again in a heartbeat, given the chance. I'm loving life now, something I hadn't done in a very long time preband.

[Kelliebelly 13]

Mine was great in the beginning too, then slowed off and stopped for 7 weeks. I will never be someone that loses 2 to 3 pds every week, or even every 2 weeks, I lose that maybe a month. I am still happy tho, slow and steady wins the race.

[CandySmooch 0]

I am soo glad I'm not the only one. When I first started researching the band and read about slow losers I was so confident that it wouldn't be me - well now that's kicking my in my ass! I was self-pay banded and would do it again. The funny thing is that my food intake is drastically less than pre-band but still not any significant weight loss - that still boggles my mind! How can that be?

Anyway - I was banded May 24th, 2005 - lost 8lbs within the first week or so. Gained 4lbs back before my 1st fill of 1cc on July 7. Lost 1lb after that fill and just had my 2nd fill of another 1cc on August 31st. I lost 2lbs in 2 days at 2cc because I was too tight so he took .5cc of that fill out and now I feel just like I did before my 2nd fill so probably not going to lose anymore until I get a little more back in. I'm thinking I need at least .3 put back in before I can start losing. Soooooooooooo in a little over 3 months it's been a struggle for my 8lb weight loss - I thought it would go faster but hope my next fill will get me going - God knows I felt the restriction at 2cc but that was too much - I wasn't able to get down solids at all - that's how I lost 2.5lbs in 2 days. Time willl tell

[wade64 0]

:cross-eye its taking me a while to lose this weight i had surgery on march 10-05 and i have lost 35lb.and i excercise 3 to 4 days a week .and it get hard doing all that and you are still at the same weight for a month are two .but i tell you one thing i do feel good when some one tell me that i dont need to lose any more weight.but i would love to lose 50lb but i dont regret having the surgery because that could be 35lb that i put on and i sure dont want to go down that road been there done that.

[Angeleyes 1]

I swear I am the slowest loser here! I have lost 18 pounds in 5 months. But I am not worring about food 24/7. If I hadn't done this I would still be gaining about 5 pounds a month.

[Marimaru 7]

Going down (or even staying the same) is always better than going up. That's what gets me through the slow/stuckness. I've lost 10 lbs since the last time I posted on this thread in March. I would very much like to be able to report more, but that I can report anything is a blessing.

And to think when I got this surgery I thought I'd be done in a year. Don't even ask me what I may have been smokin' at the time, lol. I guess the moral of the story is, don't set your sights too high, because karma will bite you in the butt!

Knowing what I know now, I'd still do this all over again. Even with the same loss rate. I honestly think that losing slower has been better for me. I have to be more accountable for what I put in my mouth, and my head has had extra time to wrap itself around the new body. I can actually SEE the difference in the mirror now, where I couldn't a few months ago. That took some time for sure.