School project

[Mike's Girl 3]

Hello,

I am currently completing a project that I need some assistance with. I am collecting height and weight of people in the process of losing weight. This can be through medical or surgical intervention. The only other information I will need is if you participated in a support group in person or online (such as trough this site). I need the measurements before starting to lose weight and then quarterly for a year. Feel free to send it to me in a message. I would like to thank all willing to assist in advance. The information obtained will be kept confidential and participants will be assigned a blinded number. I will only be submitting the information to my instructor on a graph format so no identifying information will be available.

Thank you!!!

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[Kindle 8,667]

5'5"

Started preop diet December 4, 2013 and had VSG December 20, 2013.

December 2013 - 238#

March 2014 - 199#

June 2014 - 160#

September 2014 - 140#

December 2014 - 138#

No support group other than online forums.

[Djmohr 6,965]

I started the surgical process in Dec. 2013. I began with what was supposed to be a 6 month supervised diet.

I was 51 when I started, I weighed 310lbs at 5'10"

I lost only 7lbs prior to surgery which was performed on 9/26/2014. I was 303 on surgery day.

December - 2014 - Weighed 243 - loss of 67

March - 2015 - Weighed 225 - total loss of 85

June 2015 - Weighed 199 - total loss of 111

Sept 2015 - weighed 189 - total loss of 121

Dec 2015 - weighed 175 - total loss of 135

March 2016 - weighed 164 - total loss of 146

June 2016 - Weighed 159 - total loss of 151

I participate in Bariatric Pal as my primary support group.

[Mike's Girl 3]

Thank you for the support and data!! I will share my personal success story as well.

I am 5'4" and weight 296# last July. I had the gastric sleeve on July 29th and am down 110#. Feel great and so thankful to be healthier. Although I read post on BariatricPal I participated occasionally in the support group at the hospital where I had surgery. I have worked with bariatric patients for 25 years and am amazed at the process for surgical weight loss. It is not an easy road or quick fix!!!

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[jess9395 5,448]

I had no pre op diet and had surgery 12/3/2013

I was 43, 5'6" and weighed 271lbs.

March 3 2014 -- 210lbs - loss of 61lbs -total loss 61lbs

June 3 2014 -- 174lbs - loss of 36lbs - total loss 97lbs

September 3, 2014 -- 152lbs - loss of 22lbs - total loss of 119lbs

December 2, 2014 -- 142lbs - loss of 10lbs - total loss of 129lbs.

Lost another 6 lbs to arrive at 135 Jan 16, 2015 for a total loss of 136lbs (literally half my size)

Only this group for support

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

My stats:

Gender - female

Weight - 5'5"

Highest weight (age 68) - 235.6 pounds

Day of surgery (August 18, 2014):

Age - 68

Weight - 216.0

Quarterly weights during first year post-op:

Q1 - 184.6

Q2 - 162.4

Q3 - 151.8

Q4 - 143.6

Today:

I'm now 70 years old, still 5'5", and this morning at 22.2 months post-op I weighed 135.8 pounds. My lowest weight was 133.0 pounds.

My support groups:

* www.bariatricpal.com

* www. g a s t r i c s l e e v e .com

* For the last two years I have seen a psychologist monthly.

* My surgeon's practice does offer an in-person monthly support group, but I live more than 100 miles from where the group meets so do not attend that.

Warning about non-respondent bias: Respondents who actually collected this kind of information on their own (no bariatric surgeon requires patients to record and store this kind of info) and who will provide it to you are likely to be WLS patients who were more compliant during their weight loss phases and had more success losing weight and maintaining their weight losses than those who didn't collect this information and/or who don't respond to your inquiries.

[Mike's Girl 3]

Thank you VSGAnn2014

I have also requested participation from those at the support group I attend. The surgeons require attendance to 2 meetings prior to surgery and none are required after.

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