Re: life expectancy after WLS (sorry, here's the link that wo...

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I think most of the issues about this site have been tackled, but I want to

deal with people " just " keeping off half of their excess weight.

Let's say you're ideal weight is 150 pounds and you now weigh 350 pounds.

You have the surgery, and your weight stabilizes at 250 pounds. OK, it's not

perfect. You're still technically " fat " however....

Your chances of getting insulin resistant diabetes have been radically

reduced, or if you do get it you're likely to get it in later life. If you

do get diabetes, you're less likely to need an amputation.

You'll be at lower risk for subsequent surgeries, because obesity is a big

risk factor in surgery.

You also will be small enough that you can probably engage in some kind of

moderate exercise (like walking or swimming) which can radically improve your

health.

To summarize, doing a little better in managing your weight or being more

active, can make you much, much healthier in the long run.

Of course, to really be accurate, you'd need to compare being 250 pounds and

staying there, with gradually gaining more and more weight. That's where

most of us were. At 500 pounds, I couldn't do anything for myself. I was

putting on about 20 pounds a year. I would have 600 pounds by the time I was

40.