Goal weight

thank you for these stats! I have never seen them before. Very interesting!

FYI - Only 3-5% take and keep off significant weight without surgery.

With conventional diets - only 33-48% of people can take and keep off 5-7% of their body weight after 4 years. (ie less than half the dieters who weigh 250 pounds weighed less than 232 pounds four years later (Brown Univ studies) and that was with follow-up support).  That would not even have been new underwear for me. 

Best wishes for wonderful success with WLS.

Your goal weight is up to you. My personal goal is 135 and I'm 5-6

My surgeon has us go 10, 20 or even 30 pounds under goal weight while in the honeymoon phase.  That allows for the bounce back regain that occurs when the malabsorption stops.  If you stay at 155 there is a good chance you will be at 175 during year three.

Your doctor is a dumbass.

Please, explain.  Because sooooooooooo many people have the regain, not that they should, but they do, that doctors have to have some strategy for long term acceptable levels of success.

Personally, I do not intend to gain anything back - but I'm sure everyone says that at 14 months post-surgery.  Hubris will not defeat me.

That's why it's so important to go at least a little low early on. If I stopped where my surgeon said I would, I'd be 60 pounds heavier than I am right now. At the time, I'd have been glad to be that weight. But there is no way, a couple years later, I would have been able to lose that much.

Totally agree with you.  (I thought you were disagreeing with WhiteDove, but you were agreeing with her also - keep losing and get some space for bounce back, if it happens)

No. I'd bet I was on the same page as White Dove at least 99 percent of the time. She's a smart cookie. 

You don't need to post anything if you have to be calling my doctor a dumbass. He is an excellent doctor.