It will go away. I had my surgery 2/11/10 so about a month farther along than you. On surgery day I weighed 235 (down exactly 50 lbs from my all time high in 2007. Today it's 196 so 39 lbs. But I've plateaued twice Once about 20 lbs out and for two weeks at 202.5 lbs.

You can't compare weight loss in pounds... those of us who start at 220-250, especially when we lost prior to surgery aren't going to lose as quickly as those who start at over 300. We have proportionately less fat to lose. I hope that you took your measurements before surgery, because I lost an inch off my waist and tummy while I was plateaued at 202.5. If you didn't take them before - take them now, your still losing inches (I"m a quilter - I get to lose 1/4 inches ;-) ) I check the scale every morning - but only about once a month on the tape - unless I'm plateauing.

In the mean time be sure to try on the largest of your new stuff at least once a week. I had stuff I was planning on shrinking back into - and I missed it entirely. It went from too small to too large in the blink of an eye.

Hang in there, it will happen

Lin

Thanks for the encouraging response Lin.
I did take my measurements at the beginning.
I am down 28 inches from pre-surgery.
I see that since I last checked (which was a few weeks ago I am down another 1/2 inch in a couple spots (bust and waist).
I check the scale at the same time every morning and then I leave it alone.
I feel like if I don't check it that much I will be really disappointed when 2 weeks have went by and I haven't lost a thing.
I have always been someone who has to keep an eye on the scale for the reality check.
I bought a pair of size 16 Ed Hardy jeans on Ebay.
They were really expensive (I HAD to have them with the skulls and roses!) but I am an experienced Ebay seller and I am planning to resell them and recoup my losses.
They are made small and I am farther than I would like to be from fitting in them.
I also have a couple pricey black safari style pant sets in 16w and 14w that I had for sale and laid away for myself.
Yes I am a clothes horse, thats me yep!
I will take your advice and keep trying these items on.
I don't want them to pass me by.

We have the same surgery date. i wonder the same thing i was 307 then i had to get down to 290 for my surgery and i did now i am at 255, wanting to get closer to onederland quicker.

onmywaynow I have heard others speak of the time when everything comes together.
I admit I am still fiquring out how I am going to do this.
It is fair to say things are not always going as smoothly as I would like them too.
Sometimes I feel like I never even had surgery.
However I look down and the scars are there

I am at a stall too! I can't wait until the scale starts to move again. I had surgery March 1, 2010. I am down 50 lbs. Let's all hang in here together.

Altheia

Well maybe thats just the way it is.
I have heard for some it takes the entire year to lose 100 pounds.
I do know if I had to do this hungry (like I was before surgery) everyday without the scale moving I could never make it.
No wonder.

You may find this hard to believe, but I was exactly where you were a year ago. Wondering if this surgery really happened and would I ever really lose a decent amount of weight. I started at 344, was 313 on the day of surgery, and never believed I would ever be that successfull. And now here I sit at 14 months, just 7 lbs from my goal weight, down 163 lbs. Its unreal I tell ya. In a year from now you will have one story of your own to be proud of. You are doing a fabulous job, my advice is only to give it more time. It is a sometimes slow process, but it all adds up, and this is not a race.

Hang in there all you newbies!

Ahhh the voice of experience.
I want so much to believe this can work for me as it has for you Callie.
For me little about this experience has been what I was told or expected.
I guess I listened too intently to a friend of mine who had the surgery over a year ago and clearly experienced things much differently.
I am like you in that I am very open and honest I wouldn't sugar coat this surgery to anyone.
Maybe you are right, this will be my journey with my own story to tell.
I guess slow and steady wins the race.

Ok, I am a very realistic person and I know that every person is going to have their own individual goals and accomplishments. Basically you have lost 27 lbs in 50 days, which is an average of 1/2 lb a day, which is 3.5 lbs a week. Slow for us post surgical folks I guess, but when is the last time in your life you lost 3.5 lbs a week that you knew you were NOT going to let yourself put back on?
Onmywaynow, you have lost almost a whole pound a day... I don't think you could ask for better weight loss than that!!!
We all have to remember it took us years to get to be overweight, it didn't happen from eating 1 plate of spagetti and some Ben and Jerry's. It took hundreds of plates and many pints of B&J to get us where we needed GBS. It isn't going to happen over night, but we have the tools, keep your head held high, it will happen, this is your last YEAR as an overweight individual!!! But it will take time, your brain NEEDS it to take time... if you woke up tomorrow and had a Barbie body you'd be a total mental case forever!
I am almost 3 months out, I am down 57 lbs, I only weighed 250 to start. People with more weight to lose are going to lose a lot faster, but I am confident in our own time we will all make it to the individual goals we have set for ourselves!!!
Good Luck Ladies, keep your head held high, you will do it, it takes a little time and some effort!!!
Crystal

@crystalk1- thanks for the reality check i needed that you are correct. no complaining from me until next week. lol

I am so glad you asked this, cause I am 2.5 weeks postop and the scale has not moved for about 3 days and I was just wondering myself, if the pounds will start to drop. So far I have lost 15 pounds.

hope you are already on your honeymoon...you just havent realized it yet. you are doing wonderfully. having the surgery is not magic. i thought it was and i had the same complaints as you have. but i am 15 month out and a size 6!!! i have never in my memory been a size 6 and healthy as well. it goes slow sometimes...but as long as you eat your protein, drink your water/liquids and move your body you will continue to be successful. just make good healthy choices and when you look back at this you will soon be writing your encouragement to another soul who thinks its going too slow...its the best thing i have ever done for myself. i will never have to be on an extreme diet again. and neiter will you!!!! good luck on this awesome journey...there are ups and downs but mostly ups.

It has been the same for me. I have this tiny egg of a stomach and yet, the weight should be dripping off my body. It is not. What I focus on is to get all of my water and protein in. Food is secondary. I walk 4-5 miles a week. I am sleeping well and off my meds. All I can do is keep up the good work.
I heard that the honeymoon period is when you get hungry again. I never was not hungry from day one.
Please hang in there, get the good stuff in and it should pay off!

Hope, what you are going through is SO NORMAL!! My first plateau hit at 3 weeks out and lasted a week - I though the surgery failed!

I have continued to have a short plateau every month since surgery and EVERY time for the first few months, I would start to panic and think it was just not working for me. Now it makes me chuckle that I had those panic attacks so often.

Just like the advice I was given at the time, now I am giving it, and next year YOU will be giving it to someone else too - the surgery IS working, you are NOT a failure at it and it WILL keep coming off!!

My body hangs on to every pound as long as possible and then drops several at a time. This has been my personal experience. Yours may be different, but right now your body is fighting to hang onto the fat. It does not like to be starved.

I had about 105-120 lbs to lose so my loss has been slower than some who had more to lose, but - I am almost at my personal goal after 9 months! I couldn't be more thrilled. You will be too - I PROMISE!!

Just keep doing the right things, following your surgeon's plan and you will be a success at this and so happy with your results!

Thanks Julie,
I just wanted to be assured that this is all normal and I will be reaching my goal like so many others on this board.
It must be tiring for the more seasoned members of the group to support the newer members who become fretful and impatient with the process but I thank-you for your support from the bottom of my heart.