BMI, or body mass index, is a calculation to assess your weight-height relationship and make a preliminary determination of underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. Enter your weight and height to calculate your BMI.
Body Mass Index Chart
BMI
Weight Status
Below 18.5
Underweight
18.5-25.0
Normal
25.0-30.0
Overweight
30.0-40.0
Obese
40 and Above
Morbidly Obese
Gateway to long-term weightloss... Gateway to a NEW YOU!
Is it possible for weight loss surgery to fail? Well, the answer is yes. Weight loss surgery is only a tool. It is not a miracle. For a person to be successful, they absolutely need to make lifestyle changes and it turns out there really are a lot of changes involving that, but I believe the two most important changes are having a healthy diet and exercise. And in fact, I believe any person that can make those changes of the healthy diet and exercise, those people are going to do absolutely wonderful after weight loss surgery. So, as you goes through this process, you really need to look at yourself and understand, are you going to be the type of person that is going to find the time to make these lifestyle changes because if you are not sure you are going to find that time to make changes, you probably would not benefit from a Lap-Band, and if you realize that you probably will not make any lifestyle changes at all, then again you may not even benefit from a gastric bypass.
How long does a process take? Well, that really depends on two main factors, the individual looking for weight loss surgery and the insurance company. The first important step is the educational seminar. Next step is getting all the appropriate medical and diet history forms to our office for our review. Third step is having the complete history and physical examination by me, and then lastly our office will do a predetermination letter that we will submit to your insurance company. Once we get an approval for surgery, typically we schedule your operation at that time and it is usually about two to four weeks after the approval from the insurance company. In our program, we simply do not have any waiting list. We are able to run things very efficiently.
With a laparoscopic gastric bypass, patients lose a lot of weight and they lose it quickly. At one year after the gastric bypass, we expect patients to lose on an average about 75% of their excess body weight. So, if you are 100 pounds overweight, we would expect you to lose about 75 pounds in the first year. With the Lap-Band, the weight loss is a much more gradual, gentle weight loss and patients typically lose about one or two pounds a week. That may not sound like a lot of weight, but if you even lose one pound a week, that is about 50 pounds in one year and the good news with Lap-Band is patients can lose weight from months and years after surgery. If you look at a large series of Lap-Band patients, on average a Lap-Band patient will lose about 40% of their excess body weight in one year. So, if you are 100 pounds overweight, we would expect you to lose about 40 pounds in the first year. By years three and four, the gastric bypass and Lap-Band surgeries are fairly similar, at about 60 to 65% of excess body weight loss.
