scared to lose weight pre-op

[k4rid4]

my B.M.I was 50 last month when i got my funding, its recently dropped down as i lost a half a stone, i am tryin to keep weight on in fear that i will have my funding revoked. has this ever happend to anyone before?

 

[snack]

Not that I know of a far as I know my friend was encouraged too lose weight before her op too show her dedication I think once funding is approved that's it good luck xx

 

[babyseed]

I think if they know your history of weight problems enough to refer you, you should be fine. I think they like to see your commitment and also any weight lost makes the surgery safer x

 

[Sharonimo]

my B.M.I was 50 last month when i got my funding, its recently dropped down as i lost a half a stone, i am tryin to keep weight on in fear that i will have my funding revoked. has this ever happend to anyone before?

Absolutely not, never. Once its approved, it's approved.

Most surgeons will encourage weight loss before surgery and having been thru the whole thing from pre-op to surgery and 5 months post op I personally cannot stress enough:

** you will be doing yourself SOOOOOO many favours the *more* weight you get off before surgery -- really even if your BMI gets down to 40 something from the point of your op onwards your journey will be so much easier

At referral I was 23 stone 8 lbs (150 Kgs) and BMI of 51.7 ....... by the time of the op I was 20 stone 7 lbs and thought I had done "reasonably" well ..... but I was on the waiting list 16 months before my op, I could have lost more.

I don't think there is any chance that I would have ever managed to lose all 13 stone before the op (that is unrealistic even tho I did worry that if I was "super slimmer" for 16 months before the op and lost a stone a month I might somehow lose ALL the weight I needed to and would end up so skinny I would not need the op ...... i realise now that it is unrealistic with my previous large stomach and large appetite that I would ever have achieved that.)


However, I do wish that I had lost perhaps 6 stone pre-op instead of just 3 stone. If I had been just 17 stone on the day of the op and lost the amount that I now have ...... I would be 13 stone by now ...... instead of 16 stone and facing quite a lot left to lose.

The weight comes off REALLY quick in the first 4 - 5 (sometimes 6) months after the op -- the lower your weight is at the time of the operation the greater your chances of making it to a "normal" weight.

I am now at the point hovering at 16 stone realising I will have to now work MUCH harder myself (calorie counting and exercise tracking) to get the remaining 5 or 6 stone off.

 

[k4rid4]

O.m.g u are so rite. I never thought about it that way, I dont want to have the op then drop half the weight and be stuck! Gues its back to slimming world I go (again) they must think im mad! Im such a yo-yo dieter. :-(

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[treezuk]

I was encourage to lose weight to and you lose weight on pre op diet anyways as I understand it they go by amount you were at first meeting as basis for funding

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[rickysmrs]

i was wandering along these lines as I have had a recent hosp admission when i came home i had lost 9lbs due to being nil by mouth 4 out of the 5 days whilst in there making my bmi 41. I have funding in place and i am due my 1st appt on 29th so going to try and keep it around this mark for the time being.

 

[k4rid4]

Wel I went to c my doctor today and she said that I shudnt drop any mor weight just to be safe. BuT officialy she has to tel me to lose weight. Findn it hard to keep the beef on this time. Im just over 18st. So compaird t sum quite low I gues. :-S

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[Paula Garner]

But if you don't show your bariatric team that your committed to changing your lifestyle and can lose some weight before your surgery, they may take you off the list. If it were me, I'd be doing what your bariatric team are asking of you. Plus the more weight you can lose pre surgery, will really help improve your recovery post surgery.

 

[k4rid4]

Lol that mayb true but stil waitn for my first appointment! Iv pushd my doc to refer me to dietitian. So at least that wil speed it up!

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[treezuk]

K4 why dot you jut call up the team and ask them where you stand I remember asking at the forum and the man said you are welcome to lose as much as you can before , obv I see your point as your on the lower side of big so losing loads would send you into not needing one but unless you actually are clear what's gonna happen anyways you could be worse off when your op comes up.

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[k4rid4]

yep im at the lower end of big lol i like the way u sed that. thats funny coz i spent all my life feeling bigger than everyone else in life. well aparantly il get my first hospital apointment in a month or two so guna try keep it on a level.. i havnt even had contact with anyone but the doc, so wudnt no who to ring :S

 

[treezuk]

You just talk the Bariatric team of your hospital the main switchboard would put you trough to right department , I hope you didn't think I was being funny when I said lower end of big what I ment was your not 28 st so you'd have less to lose than I do I started at 23 5

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[k4rid4]

Lol nah. U made me smile if anytng!

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[treezuk]

That's gd

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