How much weight will I lose after my surgery?
It varies for each patient, this depends on several factors such as initial weight, age, sex, presence of comorbidities and habits. We know that men can lose more weight than women, people with greater obesity will lose more weight than those with less obesity, younger people will lose more than older people and people with better habits will have better weight loss. The results depend largely on the commitment to make the necessary changes in lifestyle and eating habits. Weight loss during the first month after surgery is around 10 to 20% of your excess weight (between 8 to 16 kg). At 3 months, around 40% is lost and in 6 months around 60% of your excess weight. Afterwards, they will lose the rest. Most patients lose between 80 and 85% of their excess weight during the first year and a half after surgery. WHAT IS EXCESS WEIGHT? It is the weight that each person is overweight. The formula is as follows: Excess weight: actual weight – ideal weight For example, if your current weight is 115 kg and your ideal weight is 80 kg, it means that your excess weight is 35 kg (115-80=35). There are many ways to find out your ideal weight, however the simplest and most likely to give a very close idea of reality is to compare your ideal weight with your height. That is, if you are 1.68 m tall, your ideal weight will be 68 kg, if you are 1.81 m tall your ideal weight will be 81 kg. Example: if I weigh 132 kg and I am 1.75 m tall, my excess weight will be 57 kg. With the bypass, you will lose approximately 85% of your excess weight during the first year to a year and a half, that is, 30 kg (85% of 35 is 30 kg). If you follow the instructions, you will usually lose, after the second month of surgery, between 2 to 5 kg per month during the first year. In the second year, you will lose weight more slowly or you will keep it stable. The most important thing is that THE VAST MAJORITY of patients lose enough to substantially change their lifestyle and quality of life, recover their health and return to doing activities that they no longer did. Remember that you are not alone and you always have our support. Do not base your success only on weight, you should also look at other achievements (wearing clothes that you did not wear before, doing an activity that you could not do, better performance at work, less fatigue, stop using those pills that you used for blood pressure or diabetes, among many others, better control of your food portions, a better example for your children and family to adopt a healthy lifestyle, among others). IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I WILL NOT LOSE WEIGHT AFTER THE PROCEDURE? This would be very rare. The good news is that it is exceptional. In the rare cases of failure, this is mainly due to the patient's intake of high-calorie liquid foods, such as liquid chocolate, packaged fruit juices or liquefied high-calorie foods. The probability that you will lose 70-80% of your excess weight may vary in each particular case.
