a lesson in figuring your true pounds lost!!!

August 17, 2001

100 days give or take, 54 pounds ......that sure seems to me like a

good loss! If you add the 5-10 pounds you would of GAINED in that

time without DS...you are now down 60+

Feel better now....

Will see you approx. a year from now at the motel BMI 26

Go Mets!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dan

> At 6:43 PM +0000 8/17/01, gobo wrote:

> >To All Post-Op's;

> >Have any of you had or heard of anyone else

> >reaching a plateau in weight loss after only 1

> >month?

>

> Yep. Me. And hundreds like me.

>

> >

> >Do you think this is a bad omen for making

> >the most of my 'window of opportunity'?

>

> No.

>

> >

> >I've had non-stop diarrhea and was taking

> >up to 17 Immodian a day. I'm now down to

> >4-6 Lomitil a day. I don't see how the

> >diarrhea could be a factor unless I was

> >showing a 'false' weight loss due to

> >dehydration which is under better control.

>

> Could be, but my 1-month plateau lasted for more than two weeks.

>

> >

> >I would be interested in any an all thoughts

> >on the significance of such and early plateau.

> >It's been going on about a week now.

>

> Patience, dear Gobo. Patience. It is most disheartening to all of

a

> sudden stop losing a pound a day. But, we all go through it sooner

> or later. I am on my 3rd or 4th plateau already, and I have lost

> onlly 54 pounds. The most recent plateau was exacerbated by my

PCP's

> cutting in half my dose of diuretic which he had prescribed to

lower

> blood pressure. My blood pressure is OK, and in fact it is great,

> but my weight went up 3 lb.before falling back to where it was 10

> days ago.

>

> --Steve, a slow loser

>

> --

> Steve Goldstein, age 61

> Lap BPD/DS on May 2, 2001

> Dr. Elariny, INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Virginia

> Starting (05/02/01) BMI = 51

> BMI on 08/07 = 42

August 17, 2001