"i&rsquo;m posting a follow-up from my original review, which i wrote 4 months after starting contrave and having lost 29lbs. (if you sort the reviews by &ldquo;most helpful,&rdquo; mine comes up first if you&rsquo;re interested in reading it.)
i have been on contrave for a little over a year now and i have lost 48lbs. i went from 194 to 146, so from &ldquo;obese&rdquo; to &ldquo;normal!&rdquo; i started at a size 12-14 and i&rsquo;m down to a 6-8 (sometimes smaller!).  at this point, the loss has slowed considerably but i&rsquo;m not struggling to maintain as i used to before contrave. i&rsquo;m still losing 2-3lbs a month, which is really just a bonus now! the one side effect that persists is a complete aversion to alcohol, but i don&rsquo;t mind. as i said before, this medicine has changed my life."