Tue, Sep-21-10, 00:53
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Plan: Ray Peat (not low-carb)
Stats: 00/00/00
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Progress: 51%
Location: Brit in Europe
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Originally Posted by jschwab
"I don't know if that's an average. But if you lose 70% of your excess weight, that puts you pretty close to normal. I have no idea though, what percentage of people regain all or some of the weight they lost.
And I have to gasp at the person who underwent WLS for 30 lbs."
I think you overestimate what 70% can do for a person's BMI and physique. If you look at my stats, you will see that I have lost 67% of my goal loss. I was certainly someone who would not be sneezed at if I showed up wanting WLS, but most people who take that step are probably much bigger than I was at my highest weight. I am still 20 pounds away from getting out of the "obese" BMI range with that 67% gone.
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Just to chime in on the WLS debate...
I happened to see this last year and just found it again. These ladies have all had WLS and, as you can see from the pictures, they are by no means super-slim now. Having a gastric bypass can lead to all sorts of health complications as the gut is no longer able to absorb nutrients so well (seeing as some of it has been chopped out, it's kind of obvious).
You can see the ladies for yourselves at this link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...st-lighter.html
Earlier this year I was looking into copper deficiency and found a whole bunch of articles about people who had become seriously deficient in copper due to their gastric bypasses. The stories were quite horrific.
One of them is here:
http://www.jabfm.org/cgi/content/full/19/2/191
And this is just the list of articles that came up on the Google search I did:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=
I bet they don't tell people about this when they are waving the scalpel in the air...
amanda
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