Question:
Why do people stop losing after 2/3 of their weight goes?

In everything i have read, it says that most people do not loose more than about 2/3 of their excess weight, especially if they started at over 300. If you are still eating small amounts, your stomach is still small, and your intestines are still partially bypassed, why wouldn't you continue to loose weight after that point? I weight 376 and if I lost 70% of my excess I would still weigh over 200 lbs, which sounds disappointing...    — kristaz (posted on September 23, 2000)

September 23, 2000
It depends entirely on your type of surgery and the post-op regimen you follow. Get a long enough bypass, small pouch and you can be pretty sure to lose most of that weight. Make sure your body wants for nothing nutritionally, and again, the weight will flow away. Drink all the water you can, and that makes it easier yet. 6 yrs post-op, 100% still off. My husband is 5 yrs post-op, 100% still off. Read between the lines of the brochures. "80% of the pateints get off 50% of their wt" is NOT what you want. You want to talk to long term post-ops of the doc you have targeted. Or consider traveling to another doc.
   — vitalady

September 23, 2000
As far as what I was told by my dr. the reason why we stop loosing is b/c your body and metablism compensate for the lack of food, therefore preserving what you do eat. You body gets use to the new anotomy.
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