On average, how long after surgery does weight loss stop?

[LouLouM 70]

Hello everyone. I am wondering, on average, when weight loss stopped after gastric sleeve surgery?

Thank you.

[catwoman7 11,223]

depends on how much you have to lose. I started off at over 300 lbs - took me 20 months to lose it all. Some people lose it all within a year - but I'm guessing most of them started off at much lower BMIs than I did.

[Arabesque 7,494]

As Catwoman7 said it depends upon how much weight you have to lose. Other factors can influence the loss as well. Some are your own choices & actions & others are physiological factors & how your body reacts to the surgery & the changes to diet & activity. I reached my goal at 6 months but continued to lose for another 11 months (at a much slower rate of course) because I was finding it challenging to eat enough to stop the loss. My metabolism was still running pretty fast then too (wish it still ran that fast) & your metabolic set point will influence when your weight loss stops. Because as time passes we are able to eat larger portions (equal to recommended serving sizes) so too your calories increase & the weight loss stops. Also just general lifestyle choices. Some people are happy for their loss to stop at a higher weight than they first thought they’d reach simply because they didn’t want to continue to make food choices that restricted or limited their lifestyle.

[Ngotsleeved 12]

Surely if you are in a calorie deficit then you will continue to lose weight until you reach maintenance.

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2 minutes ago, Ngotsleeved said:

Surely if you are in a calorie deficit then you will continue to lose weight until you reach maintenance.

This is true, but do consider the body will deploy a lot of strategies to minimize calorie expenditure if you get under the weight set point the body wants to be at. We know from the Harvard Health Biggest Loser study that the metabolism can lower expenditure by more than 800 calories a day - and even when gaining the lost weight back, the metabolism stays in this state (so this is why you gain more and more as crash diets stop and you regain).