why only 50% of weight will be lost

[comtemplating 0]

Just trying to figure out why documentation states someone with lapband will only lose 50-60% of excess weight. If weightloss occurs when you burn more calories than you eat then why would weightloss stop?

[danielle b 32]

According to my surgeon, he says that "yes" you can lose all of your excess weight, but after 5 years people only maintain about 50-60% of their weight lost. I am hoping that I am one that can keep 100% off, with no weight gain.

[Jachut 487]

Well, not everyone is a perfect bandster. That is a statistic, which means its pretty much an average and includes people who lost 100% and people who lost 10%.

People get banded for the wrong reasons and are non compliant, people struggle to change their lifestyles, people have medical problems which cause them to be overweight such as PCOS, people struggle to find good restriction, some people exercise, some people dont, people follow different food plans which may or may not match their particular eating isues, some people get banded at 30 and some at 65, the list could go on forever!

Somewhere in there is where you will fall, but the biggest factor determining that is YOU. You are in control of this and can decide that you want to better that depressing statistic.

Personally, I lost 120% of my excess weight and have maintained it so far for 2 and a half years.