Those already SLEEVED...month 1

yeah it makes SUCH a big difference if you were a heavy weight vs a light weight. I lost about 22# that first month but that included a week pre op liquids diet. And no matter how I ate and exercised I could NEVER lose that much in a month pre sleeve. NOT. EVER.

I am 5 weeks post op tomorrow... my first month was -19 (which does not include my pre-op lbs)

Thanks everyone for showing the differences & even posting various reasons.
My bestie is better understanding my reasoning

i was 224 the day i started my 2 week pre op diet.. at the end of that 2 weeks. on my surgery date i was 212.. One month later i weighed 192

so thats 31 pounds...

23 pounds. The first 20 went really fast then i stalled for about 10 days. Now I am seeing about a 1/2 to 1/4 loss everyday.

From the day of surgery to exactly 4 weeks out I lost 23 pounds.

When I had lapband I was about 20 pounds heavier at the time of surgery and lost 19 pounds in the first four weeks.

I know you didn't ask that, but I just thought it was interesting. Similar, but a little better.

51/2 Weeks and I am down 50 lbs. The first two weeks was 20 lbs and then the last three the rest. My starting weight was 357

Before I could get approved, I had to do a 3 month multidisciplinary diet and exercise plan (which ended up being 4 months because I didn't document the first month correctly).  Anyway, in the 4 months I lost a total of almost 40 lbs...so roughly 10 lbs /month.

 

I was sleeved July 10th (3 weeks ago to the day) and am currently down 19.8 lbs since surgery.  

 

I'm sure my results aren't average.  There's a huge difference between pre-surgery and post surgery.  

Pre surgery I ate 1500 calories/day

post surgery I'm lucky to get in 500

Pre surgery, I would hit the gym at least 3x/week for a minimum of 30 minutes each time

Post surgery, I'm more tired so I'm not working out as intensely...but I do make sure I get up and walk a lot (be it way slower than before and I wouldn't even think about hopping on my elliptical yet).

 

I hope it helps you...I agree with Moonglo...I don't want to set people up for feeling like a failure or have people push to try to do something different than what they're currently doing. Everyone progresses differently.   I feel very blessed that this surgery can help me and I'm hoping it will help me keep the weight off this time.  Lord knows, I've lost and gained back my body weight at least once (probably more like 2 or 3 times) over the past 15 years.