Benefits of WLS study long term stats
I'm a little discouraged by the study results. I would like to have seen that most of us are keeping off 80 to 90 percent of our weight (or even more!).
It does make me wonder at how little weight this study shows people are actually keeping off. For myself, 120 pounds would put me at the "perfect" weight of 125 (I'm 5'4"). I've so far dropped just a smidge over 90 pounds and I'm coming up on the 1 year mark. If I keep off only 25%, then I will weigh just around 200 pounds again. That does not feel like a success to me.
I want to know how many make it to their ideal weight and how many actually stay there. Of those 564, did any of them keep off the majority of their weight after 10 years?
Cate K
Northern Neck, VA 5'4" 56 years old
Highest weight 245: 7/1/2015, RNY surgery on October 26th. Had multiple complications and follow up surgeries and stayed in hospital for 24 days. Goal weight is 140.
From what I read the study indicates people keep off 28% of their starting weight. So if your starting weight was 245. 68.6lbs would be the weight loss that is kept off. So the maintenance weight would be 176.4...just over the overweight line and a huge improvement on 245.
Band-RNY revision age 50 5'4" HW 260 SW: 244 (bf healthy range 23-35%) bf 23.7% (at 137lbs) cw range 135-138.lbl with butt lift and mastoplexy March 23, 2018...2.5lbs removed.
Pre-op-16lbs (size 18/20...244) M1-16lbs (size 18...228) M2-15.6lbs (size 16/18...212.4) M3-10lbs (size 16..202.4) M4-11.4lbs (size 14...191) M5-10.8lbs (size 12...180.2) M6-8.4 (size 8/10...171.8) M7-6.4 (size 8...165.4 lbs) M8-11.6 (size 6...153.8) M9-5.6 (size 4/6...148.2) M10-5.8 (size 4....142.4) M11-4 (size 2/4...138.4) Surgiversary -1 (size 2/4...137.4) M13-2.6 (size 2/4...134.8) M14 (size 2/4...134.8) M15 (size 2...135) M16 (size 2...131.4) M17 (size 2...135) M18 (size 2...135) M19 (size 2...138) M20 (size 2...135) M21 (size 2...138)
