Which starting weight is mine?

[Beccs2011]

So being in my 2 week liquid diet right now I am not sure what weight to calculate from as my beginning weight? Is it the weight I officially weighed in as with the nutritionist when this whole prt of my journey started? Or is it the weight I was when I weighed in at my PreOp appointment?

 

[Meg]

Hi Beccs! I counted my last weigh in before I started my pre op diet as my starting weight. When is your surgery date?

 

[JudyNY]

I suppose that is up to you. For me, I did it at the very start of my journey when I first went to see my surgeon. (Some people don't start off seeing the surgeon but at my bariatric center you do.) So if you look at my ticker bar below, it is the weight I lost since Feb 1, 2020 but I didn't have surgery until June 25th due to Covid. My feeling is that if I didn't go see the doctor at that point, I probably wouldn't have made an effort to lose any weight, as I pretty much got tired of dieting and regaining. So to me, it is the whole journey, jmo.

 

[Beccs2011]

Hi Beccs! I counted my last weigh in before I started my pre op diet as my starting weight. When is your surgery date?

My surgery is the 23rd. I have 3 weigh ins I could "chose" from: 1. Beginning of process 2. Last weigh in with nutritionist 3. Weigh in at PreOp appointment. So many choices! Lol

 

[dianeseattle]

I would choose my day-of weight if it was the last time I weighed before I changed my diet. Otherwise, I would use my highest weight recorded, which some of us don't even know because the scale doesn't go that high.

 

[Beccs2011]

I was going for my starting weight of the journey since I had to weigh in with the nutritionist 6 months before I got my surgery date. That was my highest so I am confident I will start with that weight!

 

[dianeseattle]

"Food had a funeral to me!" Hilarious

 

[TraceyT]

I personally used my weight the day of surgery. It really depends on which you want to use. Best of luck to you on this amazing life altering journey!!

 

[3momchaos]

I have 2 that I use: the first weigh in with the surgeons office and surgery day weight. I lost weight before surgery, but I still include that in my weight loss journey. I do differentiate them though.

 

[JudyNY]

Another pretty picture 3mom!

 

[3momchaos]

Another pretty picture 3mom!

Thanks! I finally got my hair cut.