what can you eat after you have had bariatric surgery?
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Understanding Bariatric Surgery Diet\n\nSurgery will help you lose weight, of course. You'll lose plenty of excess weight during the first year after your operation. But you'll have to change your eating and exercise patterns to ensure that weight stays off. And you'll need to alter your eating anyway to prevent pain and vomiting, protect your surgical procedure (e.g., staple line), and prevent food from blocking the opening from the stomach to the gastrointestinal tract.\n\nHere are the guidelines for your new way of eating.  Eat slowly and chew foods until they are mushy.\n\n    * Allow 30 - 60 minutes for each meal\n    * Aim for 30 chews for each bite, chewing thoroughly to mush\n    * Explain to people why you must eat slowly\n    * Take small bites. Try a baby spoon. Cut food in the size of a "pea" to make it easier to chew\n    * Savor each bite, noting its taste, flavor, and texture\n    * Sit down and be focused on eating, not other activities where you can become distracted\n\nStop eating as soon as you feel full.\n\nIf you eat too much you'll get sick. Because the amount of space in your stomach is so small, do not eat and drink at the same time.\n\nAt first, you'll only be able to eat 1/4 cup of solid food (2 to 3 tablespoons of each item on your plate). Over time, the amount of food your stomach can hold will increase from 1/2 to 1 cup per meal. Your new, tiny stomach will not hold more than 1 cup of food at a time.\n\nHow to tell when you've had enough?\n\n    * Pressure or fullness in the center below your rib cage\n    * Nausea\n    * Pain in your shoulder or upper chest\n\nWhen you get the feeling of fullness, stop eating, even if you have not finished your meal.  Set aside three meals a day when you only eat solid foods.\n\nThis will help you eat nutritious meals rather than endless snacking. Snacking could prevent you from losing weight. It could even cause you to gain weight.  Sip slowly in between meals all day.\n\n    * We all need liquids to stay hydrated. We suggest you drink water, skim, low fat or soy milk (up to 24 ounces per day), low calorie beverages, or tea.\n\n    * Don't drink anything for 30 minutes before or after each meal. Your stomach isn't big enough for both food and liquids!\n\n    * Sip beverages slowly. Carry a bottle of water at all times.\n\n    * Avoid high calorie drinks like milkshakes, soda, fruit juices/fruit drinks, beer, alcohol, meal substitutes. They can sabotage your weight loss efforts by adding calories without making you feel full.\n\n    * Avoid carbonated beverages. They can cause bloating.\n    \n    *  Eat a balanced diet\n\nYou're not going to be eating much, so what you eat needs to be high quality and packed with nutrients—the biggest nutritional bang for the calories. You'll also need to take a multivitamin every day to make up for the nutrients no longer being absorbed in the bypassed areas of your stomach and intestines. Your long-term diet will be low in fat and sugar and high in protein.\n\nWhat happens if I don't follow the diet?\n\nWeight loss surgery is successful 80% of the time. The number one reason it fails the other 20% of the time: not following the post-surgery diet. You must be disciplined and committed to sticking to the program. That includes changing eating behaviors and exercise habits.\n\nIf this feels overwhelming to you, turn to a support group for strength.
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I'm not a doctor, but I'd say your level of obesity may not qualify you for the more extreme bariatric procedures.  Doctors tend to shy away from anything under morbidly obese, which is at least 100 pounds over the high end of your ideal weight.  They can still perform the procedure as an elective surgery, but you may be putting yourself through a difficult process for little long-term benefit.\n\nI know of people who have gained weight as a result of food allergies, not lack of exercise or high caloric intake.  You may have a trigger food or two that prevents meaningful weight loss.  Only an allergist could tell you for sure.\n\nThere could also be glandular conditions which result in weight gain, so you may want to consult a physician for a complete physical with blood work.  A low functioning thyroid is one reason some people lack a normal metabolism, for instance.  Diabetics or pre-diabetics can also lose weight once they start on blood sugar medications.\n\nBariatric surgery will definitely take the raw weight off your body, but you have to drink substantial amounts of water\nand maintain a very strict diet.  There is a significant risk of post-operative complications, even death.  The lap band procedure is considered safer than the gastric by-pass, and it is reversible.
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Eventually your stomach grows. Some people even get a second gastric bypass surgery because their stomachs get back to their original size and they have not changed their eating habits.
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if you're considering surgery, check out http://www.duodenalswitch.com it's highly recommended for the quality of life after and less complication and the weight never comes back. This is one that not very many people have heard of but is very successful. There is also a yahoo group or two on this if you want to talk to some people who have had it.
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High carbohydrate meals. You can also eat protein that packs on the pounds. Get it at your local health food store.
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Foods that speed up your metabolism and help you lose weight are proteins such as lean beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish (salmon, tuna, and sardines), peppers ( jalapeno, habanero, and cayenne peppers), dark green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, fruits such as blueberries, milk, whole-grain cereal, and oatmeal.
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It's not what time you eat, but it's what kind of food you consume. You don't need to consume heavy things (bread, beef) at night because if you're trying to lose weight, it won't work. Eat something light.\n\nIf it's your first day back, still eat something light, or have a nice meal in between time.
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There are quite a few things you can snack on: \napples - also low GI\noranges - great cancer fighting agents\npears - low GI\nblueberries - one of the best fruits to eat\nyogurt - make sure it is low GI and reduced sugar\ndried fruit - prunes & apricots\n\nMake sure you don't over compensate low fat and increase your carb intake as this will result in increase in weight. If you want to watch your figure low fat dairy options with reduced sugars are the way to go cause they are more filling. \n\nGood luck!
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after surgery take a rest to regain your strength,follow doctors orders and you'll be as good as new, as soon as possible.anyways you said youre healthy.
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Weight loss does occur in some people after any surgery, but this is incidental (except after gastric bypass and the like).  Removal of the gall bladder in and of itself has no such intended effect.  One of the common sympotms of a diseased or obstructed gall bladder is a flare up of discomfort after eating fatty foods.  One may argue, that the removal of the GB may actualy allow a person to eat MORE fat!
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Change your eating habits and your diet. Cut out all the junk foods, sodas and unhealthy snacks if you eat them. If you have a snack, make it a piece of fruit or yogurt, or jello. Make sure you have something for breakfast always, you could have  a salad with a piece of fruit or yogurt for lunch and then have dinner. Drink lots of water. Trim most of the fat off meats and remove the skin from poultry. Take your time when you eat so that your brain has time to signal when you are full. I'm not joking. If you eat in a hurry you are overeating and by the time you feel full you have actually eaten too much. If you don't walk a lot, go for a one half hour walk 3 times a week. In addition to walking, you can also exercise at home for 20 mins. several times a week, do this on the days you are not walking. The exercise does not have to be strenuous exercises (such as lifting weights), just firming and toning ones. Once you lose the weight you want to, don't go back to your old eating habits. Once you lose the weight you want to, you can modify your walking or exercise but don't give it up completely. If you go back to your old routine and diet because you think you have solved the problem, your weight will most likely return.
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You'll want to wait until the baby is older.  You'll be in the hospital for a few days and very sore from surgery afterward.\n\nKeep in mind that bariatric surgery isn't a cure all.  At the Kimkins Diet site we have members who had surgery and still remained overweight because they didn't change their food choices.\n\nIn addition, you'll find it difficult to eat many foods.  They don't fit through the new small stomach opening.  \n\nWhat you WILL be able to eat is plenty of high calorie food that turns liquid and passes right through like mashed potatoes, gravy, sugar cereal, milk, soda, cheesecake, pastries, rice, beer, milkshakes, candy, rum, wine and vodka.
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Cheese, milk- all dairy products basically. High Calorie drinks, juices, cereals- you get stuff specially for gaining weight at pharmacies. Wolf down chocolate cake!!...Peanut butter, peanuts, raisins, almonds in honey, brown rice, bananas..Dont stop exercising though. Just walk for a bit, and religiously have milk every night before bed. Good Luck!
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Cut back on calories. Increase exercise. or surgery.
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you should eat small things through out the day. have a small breakfast. and if you are hungry two hours later grab celery or carrots. if you have craving for chocolate, then allow yourself half a candy bar.  take ibuprophen for pain, its also a blood thinner.
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I had the gastric bypass (RNY) done in 2001, and I started at 500 lbs. Unfortunately, the place I had it done (BTC, is now called Barix) did the same surgery on everyone, and didn't take my super-size into consideration, so they didn't bypass enough intestine to make me lose enough weight, and in addition, my stoma was never small (the opening from the pouch to the intestine), so I've never been able to get full since my surgery. I lost 160 lbs in the first six months because of the intestinal bypass and sheer willpower (watching what I ate, etc) but have gained 50 lbs. of that back, and am still super-obese at 390 lbs. I have a lot of health problems too - B12 and iron anemia, fibromyalgia and CFS, etc. \n\nWould I recommend it? With reservations. Be sure you know what you're getting into. Make sure that you're doing it for the right reasons (health, because if you're doing it just to look better you may end up being disappointed). Make sure you choose the right surgery for yourself, because there are so many different ones out there with pros and cons of each. Do a ton of research. If you have any food issues deal with them before surgery because they won't go away, my eating disorder is part of the reason I've gained some of my weight back. Realize that the surgery works in a small window (6 months for the most effective weight loss, it drops off considerably until the 2 year point, after which there's a lot of regain across the board and it gets harder to keep the weight off. Also, realize that there is a lot of pressure in the weight loss surgery community to keep people with problems hidden - check out some of the yahoo groups ossg-hungry, and ossg-problems to make sure you hear some of the bad outcomes to balance all of the glowing testimonials you'll hear.\n\nWould I do it again? Probably. My quality of life has improved 100%, and the health problems I've had as a result are better than the ones I would have had without the surgery. Think long and hard, and make sure that this is something you can live with. The fight to have insurance cover your choice of surgery may be hard too, but there are places that you can get help with that too.
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Eat only 3 times a day and exercise.\n\nBreakfast - 2 or 3 eggs, a slice of bread and 1 serving of fruit or fruit juice.\nLunch- a large piece of chicken or fish (not fried), 1 red skinned potato the size of your fist, and some vegetables.\nDinner- a large piece of chicken or fish (not fried) and vegetables.\n\nDon't put butter or anything greasy on any of it.  For the first week you won't see anything happening, but after ten days to two weeks you will see the pounds starting to tumble.  Also make sure you are taking your vitamins and minerals.