"Ignoramus21027" wrote in message
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On 2 Apr 2005 14:58:45 -0800, wsherry72 wrote:
But, is she the norm for the amount of weight she had to lose? I have
a lot to lose. I have lost about 45 and have over 125 to go. I am
really fat. So, it is close enough to what she lost. But, I am not
doing it with gastric bypass and she did.

So, you are going relatively slowly, is that correct?

Would that cause the weight loss SO fast that the result is so much
skin.

Gastric bypass is an enforced crash diet, because the stomach is so
small that the person can only eat very little.

That's what I thought too, till I read through part of this girl's WLS
journal just out of curiosity. There she says things like: " but don't
understand how in the world I was able to eat so much only 8 days out from
surgery..." She cheated on her liquid diet a few times WITHIN THE FIRST FEW
DAYS after surgery. From what she says, even after surgery it wasn't easy to
stick to plan. It would appear that many people think that, just by having
the bypass, they'll automatically eat very little without any effort or
willpower on their part. According to this girl's story, that's not the
case.

Was there something wrong with her skin? Did she not exercise?

Exercise wouldn't have done anything to the lose skin, you may develop
muscle mass with exercise but hardly enough to fill that empty 'sack'.

What can I do to NOT look like that!

Plastic surgery! She's had two rounds of it so far...
But then she weighed 360+ to start with...

I do not think that there is anything you can do, besides losing
slowly and making sure that you eat a good diet. It is supposedly
better in younger people. I have not seen any supplements that would
be proven to work. Which is not to say that some magic solution does
not exists, only that I have not seen it. I had a lot less to lose, I
lost only 50 lbs, and I personally do not have saggy skin.

The mechanism of skin elasticity and loss thereof, is that as people
age, sugar bonds with collagen molecules in skin, causing them to
cross-link and become less elastic. So, if a person is old and had
high blood sugar, they would be more likely to have saggy skin.

The girl in the pictures was 33 yrs old when she had the bypass.

We cannot change our age, or what blood sugars we had, so our options
are, naturally, limited.

Since relatively few people lose weight and keep it off, doing studies
on that is maybe more complicated.
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