roux-en-y: how close to goal are you getting?

Hi Emily, I was 360 at the day of surgery and got as low, at about 15 months out, as 155. I am now stabilized at 170, going from a tight size 32 to a size 8 and 10. According to the "charts" I'm still not at a healthy BMI, but hells bells, who cares! Life is delicious and this body is hot! Well, for the sharpei look, that is!

I guess I can't reply to "all," so I'll just say a huge thank you to everyone. This thread gives me a lot of hope, as I'd LOVE to be at 230 (65% of my excess weight lost), but I haven't been in the one hundreds since I was eleven. I don't expect to get to 150 at all, course it would be a nice goal, but right now it doesn't matter at all. I'm just looking forward to going down from the very extremely morbid obese category, or whatever it's called. I even heard the term "malignant obesity" before, and that's scary. I used to be 500 pounds, and had a BMI in the 70's. I lost some due to a very restrictive diet and obsessive exercise--but at the end of all that, I wasn't happy because my "program" had completely taken over my whole life. What's the point of looking good if no one ever sees you because you're on the elliptical machine all day, right? I'm meeting with my pcp again to talk more, so hopefully when he gives me my referral I don't have to wait three months to get in to see the surgeon. I guess if I have to, I have to; I've been overweight since I was four so I can be like this a little longer. I have a tendency to ramble on these boards, sorry. It's so nice to talk to people who understand. Thanks for all the responses and much continued success to everyone. I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions as things progress. emily

Hi Emily, I had RnY (long) on 3-30-05. highest weight: 442 surgery weight: 430 present weight:241 My BS set a goal weight for me of 150, but I've upped that to 175. My brain's not working all that well today, but maybe someone can do the math on that one and post it for you. I'm 56 years old. all the best Myra G

I am 14 1/2 months post RNY and i have lost 88% of my excess body weight.