Is it possible to lose too much weight before seeing the surgeon?

Hi everyone! When I went to my orientation in Windsor this September someone there asked the nurse a really interesting question that I can't seem to get out of my mind. She mentioned to the nurse that she had gone through the program and was sent to the surgeon only to be denied the surgery because she lost too much weight during the assessment process. She was alittle upset because as she pointed out she had regained all that weight plus some and was going through the assessment process again. She wanted to know if that could happen again.

I have been working on changing some of my bad habits so that life after surgery would be easier but since I have lost some weight this month, I am scared that this may be a possibility (one that I never thought of before). I have my appt with the nurse in November and will ask her then but the nurse at the orientation said that it has happened before.

Should I be not concentrating in losing weight but waiting until I see the nurse? I currently have a BMI of 47 but other than that have no other health conditions except hypothyroidism.

Becky

The OHIP standards are BMI 35 with comorbidities, 40 without. With a BMI of 47, you are well within the range to have surgery. Keep doing what you're doing - it's working. They generally take your first weigh-in as your qualifying weight.

Hmm.. interesting. I wonder if they turned her down though because of the lower BMI, or because they now believed that she was capable of losing her excess weight without surgery? The second situation would be a shame, because most of us can stick to a plan long enough to lose some weight, it is the long term that is the problem.

Tracy