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Life After Bariatric Surgery
Understand what changes after surgery, including physical recovery, emotional shifts, lifestyle habits, and long term support to help you stay on track.
Articles
- Emotional Eating Help: How Identifying Your Cravings Can Help You Not Eat Taking control of emotional eating and overeating is usually a process. Figuring out what to do instead of emotional eating can be tricky, in part because food is…
- Get Into The Green Zone GET INTO THE GREEN ZONE Bandsters tend to obsess about finding their sweet spot** or perfect restriction, and in the process torturing themselves with the idea that…
- The Medical Team Meant It. Did You? The Post Op: Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? Just what are these questions? Can you flunk the test? The good news is, this isn’t a test, but the questions can test your…
- Take off those regain glasses and turn it around! A few years ago I distinctly remember reading a post from a woman that went something like this. I hate my hair. I don't like my face and don't know how to use…
- Can Your “Inner Critic” Make You Fat? "Be careful how you talk to yourself because you are listening." --Lisa M. Hayes What we say to ourselves, and how we say it––matters. When we put our negative…
- Liquid Diets: Defined and Explained Clear Liquid On a clear liquid diet, you only drink only clear liquids, that is, liquids you can mostly see through. Examples include water and flavored water (such…
- What Changes to Expect Physically and Mentally The physical and emotional changes of the first months, including the ones patients say surprised them most.
- How Your Relationship with Food May Change Food stops carrying the same emotional weight for many patients. What that shift feels like and how to work with it.
- Body Image and Self Esteem After Weight Loss Self-image often lags behind the scale. Why that happens, and what helps when the mirror has not caught up.
- Relationships, Dating, and Social Life After Surgery How friends, family and dating tend to shift after surgery, including the reactions people find hardest to anticipate.
- Plastic Surgery and Body Contouring After Weight Loss Common contouring procedures, the usual wait before surgeons will operate, and what to weigh before committing.
- Long Term Success and Staying on Track The routines that hold results long term, and the early signals that things are drifting.
- A Look at Year One and Beyond How the first year usually unfolds month by month, and what changes once the rapid loss phase ends.
- Your Medications After Surgery: Absorption, Formulations and What to Ask Your Prescriber Why bariatric anatomy changes drug absorption, the extended release problem, NSAIDs and marginal ulcer risk, oral contraceptives, antidepressants and thyroid medication, and the questions to bring to any prescriber.
- Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery: Timing, Nutrition and Monitoring What the 2022 ASMBS practical guide actually says about waiting to conceive, the nutrients it names for monitoring around a pregnancy, what the literature shows on gestational weight gain, why the standard glucose test is often avoided, and the small for gestational age picture.