Cross post benefits of WLS long term stats

Came across this neat article about long term benefits of WLS highlighting gastric bypass.  At the ten mark the researchers had weight information on 564 patients and out of them only 19 regained their weight. 

benefits of WLS long term

Wow, that's really interesting.

Thank you for posting

This article is depressing to me. Only 19 gained weight because overall, the group did not lose very much:

After four years, those who had gastric bypass lost nearly 28 percent of their starting weight. People who had sleeve gastrectomy lost about 18 percent and those with gastric banding lost about 11 percent, the researchers found.

The study looks weird. 1800 starting - but only 564 completed the study.  That is less than 30%. And we know that people who drop off radar - are more likely to the ones that gained weight, and a lot of it.  They just stop showing up or respond to questions.  

Plus the quoted 3/4 to be men. And as we know - more women get WLS do the data is not representative of the WLS population. 

Yeah this article while interesting is kinda a downer. Gee they only lost 30%, of their starting weight?, not even half? Plus they lost track of a lot of people especially since they started out with 1800. In the end they mostly just had older white guys left. Kinda depressing, especially when I just saw on the news 35% of African American women are obese.

No body is tracking me but me I guess.

I can swear you in as an old white guy if you like. Give you the secret handshake, and show you the ropes.

these are averages, so there are probably some who kept most if not all of their weight off.  I would imagine if you keep up your diligence, you'll be among those.  At least I hope so.