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I asked my Dr. at our initial consultation if you can gain weight back after the sleeve? He told me the new stomach can not stretch more than 5%. At my psych eval, I mentioned that & the psychologist was floored; said he knew people that gained it all back after the sleeve! That scares me.

Curious what others' bariatric surgeons told them about possibility of weight gain?

My doctor, Dr. Kuhn, also sad the max. you could expect to lose is 80% excess body weight (on his web site, it says 70%).. Yet, on the forums, I see people who have lost more weight. Wondering if that is a rare occurrence?

What did your Dr. Tell you?

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I asked my Dr. at our initial consultation if you can gain weight back after the sleeve? He told me the new stomach can not stretch more than 5%. At my psych eval' date=' I mentioned that & the psychologist was floored; said he knew people that gained it all back after the sleeve! That scares me.

Curious what others' bariatric surgeons told them about possibility of weight gain?

My doctor, Dr. Kuhn, also sad the max. you could expect to lose is 80% excess body weight (on his web site, it says 70%).. Yet, on the forums, I see people who have lost more weight. Wondering if that is a rare occurrence?

What did your Dr. Tell you?[/quote']

The sleeve doesn't have to stretch for you to be able to gain all the weight back. It's all about what you eat and drink. The surgery won't keep you from eating ice cream or drinking Coke all day long if you decide to not pay attention to your doctor's recommendations. And high calorie easily digestible junk foods like that can easily slide right past the restriction.

As far as how much you can lose, there is no magic number for that. The average weight loss for sleeve patients is around 60-70% of excess weight (depends on which study you read). But remember, it's an average. There are plenty who lose 100% or even a bit more of excess weight. There are also several who don't lose the weight for whatever reason.

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If you go by the charts I lost about 87% of my excess. The charts must have been made by willowy super models. I am in extremely good shape now but it says I could lose another 20. Some of that is spare skin and the chart doesn't allow for big muscles.

The sleeve doesn't stretch much but if you eat crapola in small increments incessantly you can defeat it. The remedy? Don't.

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At 15 months out, I've lost 67% of my weight. I haven't gained any weight back, but can see that it could easily happen, with poor food choices.

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