After 3, and after 6 months how much did you lose with the VSG?
Haven't made it to 6 months yet. At 3 months I'd lost 48# and now at 3.5 months I've lost 56#, or an average of 4# per week. I did enjoy sweets and cake before this procedure. Have eaten some since my surgery but they don't taste the same so a bite or two is enough.
G/BMI=25 or less, normal weight
1st goal = 215#, MET 2nd goal = Onederland, MET
3rd goal = 175#, MET 4th goal = > BMI of 29.9, MET 5th goal = 155#, MET Final WL goal = 140# or less and normal BMI
on 3/31/10 9:11 am
Hi Sunshine. Me again. :-) I have a spreadsheet of my weekly and monthly weight loss since surgery. Here are my results as of this morning (this morning = month 7; I measured each month as being four weeks in duration, starting with the Wednesday I had surgery):
MONTH 1 = -29 lbs
MONTH 2 = -11.6 lbs
MONTH 3 = -15.2 lbs
MONTH 4 = -9.2 lbs
MONTH 5 = -6.6 lbs
MONTH 6 = -6.0 lbs
MONTH 7 = -6.2 lbs
I didn't take measurements, but I was wearing a 22W clothing size the day of surgery, and now I'm wearing size 10 misses (and I can even wear junior sizes now!).
I enjoyed sweets pre-op, and still do, in moderation. I try to keep my simple sugars to a minimum because of my blood sugar issues, though. But, still, I'll have a small slice of birthday cake at a party, and I've often sampled sweet treats people bring into work. I try not to get all-or-nothing about that stuff, because doing so just makes me crave those things more and I end up getting into a self-defeating cycle of craziness! For the most part, all I really focus on is getting in plenty of protein, and limiting the simple sugars for most of my meals/snacks. I don't worry about fat grams--I eat so little overall because of my small stomach, and low-fat or fat-free stuff tastes like crap. That's what works for me, anyhow.
on 3/31/10 9:35 am, edited 3/31/10 9:36 am
I lost only about two lbs pre-op. I was self-pay, so I didn't have to do the six-month diet thing to jump through insurance hoops. Also, because my BMI wasn't super high pre-op, all I had to do was the liquid diet for two days pre-op to prep me for surgery, which is when I lost a couple of lbs. That may be why I dropped so much weight the first month--some of that was water weight that others might have dropped on their longer pre-op liquid diets.
I didn't do anything differently from Month 2 to Month 3. Month 2, I think my loss slowed down while my body was adjusting to the quick drop in weight from Month 1, but I lost a lot more inches in Month 2 than I did in Month 1. The scale can be deceiving in that way.
ETA: as I get closer and closer to my goal weight, my monthly weight loss has slowed down a bit. I'm still happy with it, though, as long as it keeps going down!
I enjoyed all kinds of foods. I was triggered by visuals - so if I saw cake I had cake, if I saw cookies, I ate cookies, and my favorite was when I saw chips - boy did I eat them. The visuals still sometimes get me, but instead of several helpings I have a bite or two and that's it.
Hope this helps. Good luck with your research.
I LOVED candy preop. Chocolate bars, jelly beans, easter eggs, whatever. I still like that stuff now, but I can usually avoid it. If I don't see it, I don't crave it. I keep it out of the house for the most part for that reason.
Once in awhile I have some though. That's why I got the sleeve in the first place..so I could!