regain? math needed article from a magazine..

BreeChick · 06-04-2007, 08:41 AM

I get this magazine.."for women FITNESS" as I'm looking for specific exercises to write out my workouts for my new gym. So I run across this article which I read out loud to my daughter and she points out the math of this..
quote from article:
"Bariatric Surgery isn't always a Cure: ' But perhaps the most disturbing surprise is that some patients gain back from 10 percent to 20 percent of their lost weight within five years"

Now perhaps this hit me in a sensitive spot with my regain with the overlarge stoma..but!

math = loss of 200 lbs 10% of THAT would be what?? 20 lbs?
loss of 250 lbs 10% of THAT would be 25 lbs?

I guess it's just that they made that regain which over the 6.5 years I'd been online and talking with people who've had the surgery and are far out they ALL 'bottom out and then go back up about this 10% and 'settle' in at a weight they just stay at. Unless of course they get the full abdominoplasty with lipo and etcs...

I dunno...what do YOU all think about that statistic they wrote about

and BTW the reference was post as ---(Glamour, Jan 2007) Like Glamour magazine is an authority on WLS!

--but still people read this and all the read is the "most disturbing" bit!
---bree

DocSanae · 06-04-2007, 08:50 AM

Exactly my point.
Are you all wanting a career as Femme Fatales and Don Juans in Hollywood post op? Gosh, what they don't know and don't bother to understand!!

So, did you read my post?
Long term success rate--the reality and putting it in perspective.
I really really hate it when mass media picks up one aspect (that specialists actually consider quite the norm) nit pick on it, drop everythihg else as if they didn't exist, and write up one big hullaballoo--a bag full of tricks to blind people against what actually is good, and turn people against those who are working to make it good.
I see soooooo much of it in just about all aspects of medicine.

fr1endly2 · 06-04-2007, 09:16 AM

Well i knew going into it that we do gain some back.
AND personally i feel how much depends on how many
changes the person made.
AS this is a tool and if used wrong u can gain all your weight
back...so for me i take it day by day and just hope i never
loose control and use the tool when i need to correctly like
im doing right now

06-04-2007, 08:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
BreeChick WLS Master Guru Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, Okla USA Posts: 808 Blog Entries: 47 Weight Statistics 05/17/02 Start Date: 05/17/02 Surgery Date: 5' 5" Height: 355 lb Start Weight: 192 lb Current Weight: 175 lb Goal Weight: 163 lb Weight Loss: 17 lb Lb Left to Lose: 45.9154929577 % % Lost: may 2008 Goal Date: Body Mass Index 59.0686390533 BMI Start: 31.9469822485 BMI Current: 29.1183431953 BMI Goal: Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass	regain? math needed article from a magazine.. I get this magazine.."for women FITNESS" as I'm looking for specific exercises to write out my workouts for my new gym. So I run across this article which I read out loud to my daughter and she points out the math of this.. quote from article: "Bariatric Surgery isn't always a Cure: ' But perhaps the most disturbing surprise is that some patients gain back from 10 percent to 20 percent of their lost weight within five years" Now perhaps this hit me in a sensitive spot with my regain with the overlarge stoma..but! math = loss of 200 lbs 10% of THAT would be what?? 20 lbs? loss of 250 lbs 10% of THAT would be 25 lbs? I guess it's just that they made that regain which over the 6.5 years I'd been online and talking with people who've had the surgery and are far out they ALL 'bottom out and then go back up about this 10% and 'settle' in at a weight they just stay at. Unless of course they get the full abdominoplasty with lipo and etcs... I dunno...what do YOU all think about that statistic they wrote about and BTW the reference was post as ---(Glamour, Jan 2007) Like Glamour magazine is an authority on WLS! --but still people read this and all the read is the "most disturbing" bit! ---bree __________________ --BREE open RNY 5/17/2002 -166 lbs(-200 at lowest) Everything & Anything is possible with Belief in place....WLS changes LIVES

06-04-2007, 08:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
DocSanae Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 9,391 Blog Entries: 2 5' 5" Height:	Exactly my point. Are you all wanting a career as Femme Fatales and Don Juans in Hollywood post op? Gosh, what they don't know and don't bother to understand!! So, did you read my post? Long term success rate--the reality and putting it in perspective. I really really hate it when mass media picks up one aspect (that specialists actually consider quite the norm) nit pick on it, drop everythihg else as if they didn't exist, and write up one big hullaballoo--a bag full of tricks to blind people against what actually is good, and turn people against those who are working to make it good. I see soooooo much of it in just about all aspects of medicine. __________________ "In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun." Just a li'l bit 'bout myself

06-04-2007, 09:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
fr1endly2 Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SOMEPLACE LONG ISLAND, NY Posts: 6,756 Weight Statistics June 1, 2005 Start Date: Please Enter Height: 310 lb Start Weight: 167 lb Current Weight: 159 lb Goal Weight: 143 lb Weight Loss: 8 lb Lb Left to Lose: 46.1290322581 % % Lost: Body Mass Index 51 BMI Start: 27 BMI Current: Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass	Well i knew going into it that we do gain some back. AND personally i feel how much depends on how many changes the person made. AS this is a tool and if used wrong u can gain all your weight back...so for me i take it day by day and just hope i never loose control and use the tool when i need to correctly like im doing right now __________________ LISA http://w5.photobucket.com/widgets/dy...164/fr1endly2/ LAP RNY Gastric Bypass

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