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Food limitationsFood will be limited at first. A few days after surgery, you will be able to eat blended foods. You will be limited in your food choices during the initial healing time after your surgery, usually about six weeks. After that, you will be gradually guided back into eating a wide variety of healthy low-fat/low-calorie foods. You will be able to have such things as cake at your birthday party; you just won't be able to make every day your birthday.
Food intolerances
After you begin eating a wide range of foods, you may experience some food intolerances to things you liked before. These experiences are very individual. You will be required to monitor your food intake if you are to be successful. You may be intolerant to such food as red meats, nuts, bread products and concentrated sweets.
Weight loss
Weight loss is accomplished in large part by the reduction in the amount of food you are able to consume. What you eat is just as important as how much you eat. To reach the optimum weight loss, you will be required to reduce your caloric intake. There are no magic weight loss formulas. It is simply a matter of energy output versus energy intake. The weight loss formula: In short, you must burn up more calories than you consume per day.
At the end of the first year following surgery, the patient will eat approximately the same amount of normally prepared food that would be placed on a child's plate. Patients, with the help of our dietitians, will come to understand their own requirements for weight maintenance, exercise and food intake and should be able to manage their diet accordingly.
Nutritional supplements
You will need to take nutritional supplements daily for the rest of your life. The reduction in the amount of food you consume, and the malabsorption of some nutrients will require the addition of vitamin and mineral supplements for you to remain healthy for the rest of your life. You will be asked to take a multiple vitamin daily and possibly a calcium or B12 replacement.
Protein
You will be placed on a high protein diet after surgery to promote healing. Patients are placed on a high protein diet for the rest of their life. Protein is the basic building material our bodies use to repair and replace tissue and is necessary to remain healthy. |
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