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Dr. Dahiya explains how much weight a woman will lose after bariatric surgery and if the weight loss will occur quickly.

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How Much Weight Can I Lose After Bariatric Surgery The rough guide for a bypass is about 10% of your excess weight per month. And that’s sort of tells you that it’s going to paper down. So if you use the example, I'm 100 pounds overweight. So, first month roughly ten pounds. Second, well now I had 90 pounds left, so nine and so forth. With the lap-band, the weight loss is slower. It probably takes twice that much to lose. So if you have lap-band and you going to be patient and as far as the timeframe is concern. But that’s a rough guide and I don’t tell my patients that you to sort of take it to such a guideline that well if you didn’t lose or lose too much then that’s a matter of concern because men lose faster, women lose a little less and everybody is as an individual and there are some variations in that.