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Hello My name is Amanda and I'm 26 years old. I currently weigh 307, although after last weeks binge I'm sure its up. Anyway, my question is what was the amount of weight your surgeon told you to expect to loose. I know that on average people loose about 75% of their excess body weight. That would put me at about 177. I'd still be obese, and I just want to be normal. How much have you lost and what was the expectation? Thanks in Advance Amanda

greetings amanda nice to meet you! i'm deb, 50 years old, 5'10" tall and two years out from an open rny. i started out at 463 lbs, putting my bmi at 66.4. my surgeon suggested my goal weight should be 210. i'm currently at 187, with a bmi of 26.8. i really want to have a normal bmi -- which means i need to weigh a maximum of 174, and i'm hopeful i'll get there eventually. but weighing 187 is quite a thrill! i see my surgeon for my 2 year followup in a week -- i haven't seen him since my 1-year appt. at which time i think i was weighing 240-250...so i'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say about me being in onederland! all the best to you! deb

Hey Amanda, Most surgeons will not give you an exact promise of how much weight you will lose but will give you a "goal" weight based on the type of surgery you have had and what your normal BMI should be. Each of the 3 major surgeries has a different percentage of expected loss based on averages. For instance, at the time of my surgery the lap band average was between 50-65 percent expected loss. It doesn't mean that someone can't do better then that, but it just means that when all the people that have had the lap bands are added up and averaged, the average loss is between 50-65 percent. For this reason, I had the Duodenal Switch. The expected loss (based on averages) was higher then any other WLS. The excess weight loss runs around 80-85 percent, with a high percent reaching their actual goal weight. I was 472 lbs the day I walked into OR in Feb of 2006 (a year ago) and today I weight 236. I've lost 80 percent of my excess weight in one year, and with the DS the weight loss window goes to about 18 months, so I still have another 3/4 of a year to lose the rest of my weight. I should be at goal by the late spring/early summer. Again no matter what surgery you have, you dont' have to be a statistic, but it's up to you to work with the surgical tool you get. I hope this helps Scott

Thank you everyone for your replies. I have thought about some of this before, but I'm glad to have it brought up for me to think some more about. Anyways I just wanted to say Thank You Amanda