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View Poll Results: What do you consider "Start Weight" | |
Your heaviest weight
|     | 6 | 18.75% | |
Your weight on the first visit to your Bariatric doctor
|    | 15 | 46.88% | |
Your weight on the morning of your surgery
|    | 10 | 31.25% | |
Other (please explain)
|    | 2 | 6.25% |
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09-15-2009, 10:24 AM
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#1 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 306
1983 Start Date:
09/10/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
246 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
-246 lb Weight Loss:
76 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.2211914062 BMI Current:
29.1772460938 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
|  What do you consider your "start weight" ?
When you consider how much weight you have lost ... What do you consider your start weight? 
Start Weight Poll:
1 - Your heaviest
2 - Your weight on the first day you visited your bariatric doctor
3 - Your weight on the morning of your WL surgery.
4 - Other (Gina you have it all wrong ! )
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Last edited by GinaMarie; 09-15-2009 at 10:56 AM.
Reason: clarification
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09-15-2009, 10:33 AM
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#2 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 9,219
Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
363 lb Start Weight:
170 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
193 lb Weight Loss:
53.1680440771 % % Lost:
12/31/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index52.0793877551 BMI Start:
24.3897959184 BMI Current:
24.3897959184 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I chose my heaviest weight because it was the same as the day of my surgery. I didnt have to lose weight before . I was told not to gain any.
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09-15-2009, 10:35 AM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 23,801
5' 5"
Height:
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The question has come up before.
This board recommends that you put your starting weight at what it was when you started the quest for surgery for those who chose surgery, and for those who chose the non-op journey, the weight where they embarked on their journey upon joining this board.
So, any weight you lost during your pre op preparations is included in your total weight loss.
Last edited by DocSanae; 09-15-2009 at 10:37 AM.
Reason: typo
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09-15-2009, 10:40 AM
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#4 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 306
1983 Start Date:
09/10/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
246 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
-246 lb Weight Loss:
76 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.2211914062 BMI Current:
29.1772460938 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Doc, I started my quest for surgery years ago. I just couldn't afford it. I gained 50+ pounds from my quest start to my actual surgery (and that includes the pounds i lost doing a 2 week liquid prior to surgery). I'm sure that there are others like me that are confused abou this. OMG I CAN't be the only one. 
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09-15-2009, 10:47 AM
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#5 (permalink)
| | Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 23,801
5' 5"
Height:
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Well, when we say, your quest for surgery, we actually mean when you started the present process for surgery. When you started the process that directly lead to your surgery, or at your first official weigh in with the surgeon/PCP in preparation of jumping the hoops.
Sorry my post wasn't clear on that.
Last edited by DocSanae; 09-15-2009 at 10:53 AM.
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09-15-2009, 10:57 AM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 306
1983 Start Date:
09/10/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
246 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
-246 lb Weight Loss:
76 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.2211914062 BMI Current:
29.1772460938 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Thanks doc. I have re-phrased my original question. I am still interested in knowing what the majority consider a "start weight".
Thanks,
Gina-Marie
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09-15-2009, 11:19 AM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 4,904
Weight Statistics 3/18/2008 (dieted all my life) Start Date:
9/30/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
292 lb Start Weight:
192 lb Current Weight:
189 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
3 lb Lb Left to Lose:
34.2465753425 % % Lost:
2 years Goal Date:
Body Mass Index44.3935986159 BMI Start:
29.1903114187 BMI Current:
28.7342128028 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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They counted the weight that I started the 6 mt. diet before surgery. That was not my highest wt but close enough.
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09-15-2009, 02:28 PM
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#8 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,214
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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The weight I was the day the doc gave me the long face and said "lose weight or die!" THAT is my starting weight!!
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09-15-2009, 02:39 PM
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#9 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: New Orleans, LA burbs
Posts: 202
Weight Statistics 01-01-09 Start Date:
August 17, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 7"
Height:
257 lb Start Weight:
143 lb Current Weight:
145 lb Goal Weight:
114 lb Weight Loss:
-2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
44.3579766537 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index40.2474938739 BMI Start:
22.3945199376 BMI Current:
22.7077300067 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Honestly I really don't know my true heaviest weight. I only know the weight when I started at my DR.
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09-15-2009, 02:47 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Cub Reporter
Join Date: May 2009 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Posts: 80
Weight Statistics 1/26/2009 Start Date:
Had RNY surgery on 2/19/09 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
335 lb Start Weight:
227 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
77 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.2388059701 % % Lost:
5/2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index54.0645087236 BMI Start:
36.6347566575 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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The weight I was when I was very first weighed at the Bariatric Center...which was my heaviest.
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