Obesity surgery
Celebrating Non-Scale Victories After Bariatric Surgery
As patients progress through their weight loss journey, the one metric they tend to focus on is the all-important number of pounds lost. We all think about our weight, sure, but there are other ways to measure success after weight loss surgery, and these are the "non-scale victories".
Non-Scale Victories are the improvements in your quality of life that cannot be measured on the scale.
When patients come to see a doctor for weight loss surgery, the conversation inevitably turns to goals and expectations. This is where the doctors find out what the patient’s motivation for surgery entails. They find out about the motivations and aspirations behind the patients' decision for weight loss treatment.
From a medical perspective, the best non-scale victories are the resolution of medical problems. When a patient realizes that they have been cured of diabetes and no longer need medicine to help maintain a normal blood sugar, or a patient no longer needs a CPAP mask to sleep well at night, signifying a cure of obstructive sleep apnea, those stories are satisfying for our doctors. In curing those medical problems, the patient’s quality of life improves substantially.
There are other non-scale victories that patients experience on a daily basis. Little things that add up to a happier life. Being able to sit on the floor and play with kids, going for a walk without pain or becoming short of breath, being able to wear more fashionable clothing, and having the energy to complete all of these activities without becoming fatigued. These are all non-scale victories; they cannot be measured by standing on a scale, and they are the stories that we love to hear when we come to work.
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