Discouraged..hmmm...I don't know???

Today was my 2 weeks post op appointment and everything is going great.  I am at the pureed food stage for the next ten days and a lot of the foods on there are the same as what I had on the liquid diet.  They did however add in scrambled eggs, cooked vegs etc...so  I am excited about the thought of some new protein and foods.  The discouraging part is that the nurse said I will only lose about 40 lbs in a year.  WHAT?!?!?!?!?  How is it possible to only lose 40 lbs?  On one hand the 40 lbs is huge, on the other, I was expecting WAY more than that.  I have already lost 8 lbs since surgery , and am soo happy, but that would mean I am only gonna lose another 32 lbs..REALLY?  Any thoughts?  Maybe I should just listen to me and my thoughts on it, and not the nurses..that way I stay uplifted and hopeful!!!

That sounds like bologne to me....You can lose all of your weight if you follow your instructons and stay on track. I lost 100 lbs in about 6 months. It's up to you. Good Luck and congratulations.

It depends on how much you weigh. My surgeon said I will lose mostly all my weight in the first 6 months. The peeps I know lost a ton more than that!

You are a lightweight which generally means you may lose more slowly but I started at exactly your starting weight and I reached goal (140lbs) at 6 1/2 months and I am now 9lbs under goal. I think your nurse was confused or something.
And I was a revision and they usually lose slower.

LOL @ Ladytazz's avitar...

Which form of WLS did you have? If I'm figuring correctly, you want to lose a total of 78 pounds, and 40 would be slightly more than half of that.

Did your surgeon tell you that "success" in WLS is losing 50% of your excess weight? (NOT what you wanted to heard, I know.)

If you had a Band---yeah, I can see you losing about 40 pounds the first year. Any other procedure, I'd expect you to lose to goal within the first year.

Well I lost more than twice that in my first year and I have that awful, useless weight loss tool called the band - the one that everyone tells us never works.

I'd listen to YOU not the nurse! If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight, irrespective of your wls. So why would having wls mean you lose less than if you stuck to Weigh****chers?? And if you have a surgery which causes malaborption, 40lbs in a year would be even more surprising!

Having said that, the less you have to lose, the slower it goes! So perhaps better to expect 40 and be delighted with more!!

Kate

...that's all. :)

It looks to me like you have about 80 pounds to lose. 40 pounds is half of that, and yes, it is very common to lose 50% of your excess weight in the first year, especially if you start out as a "lightweight." This does not necessarily mean that's ALL you will lose. This is a marathon, not a sprint. You're in it for the long haul.

Please learn to look at percentages of excess weight, not numbers of pounds, if you just can't keep from comparing yourself to others. I had 240 pounds to lose, so my numbers will always look drastically different from yours....Until we start talking percentages. I don't know what procedure you had, but I had the DS. I lost the first 100 pounds, or about 40% of my excess weight, in just over four months. By a year out I'd lost something like 80% of my excess weight, which was around 185 pounds. It took two years and two months to lose 100% of my excess weight, and I have regained 8%.

For you, those numbers would be more like: 40% = 32 pounds, 80% = 64 pounds, 8% = 6.4 pounds. That's how you have to look at the numbers.

WLS is a success, by medical definitions, if you lose 50% of your excess weight. I hope you do better than that. But you need to be realistic and you also need to understand where the medical people are coming from.

The ten pounds you've just lost are water. The scale will slow down, probably stop and maybe even go UP as your body replenishes its glycogen stores and with it, the water needed for that process. A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds.

I guess I should have said that I had RNY.  I am indeed a "lightweight" so to say, but still have about 70 or so lbs to lose none the less.  Thank you for all the insight everyone, I really do appreciate it.  I am gonna keep my head up, stay up on the protein, H2O, exercise and vitamins, and accept whatever comes my way.  To be healthier for me and my family is an awesome feeling.....Have a super Friday everyone