Diet Plan: Before Gastric Bypass Surgery

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Gastric Bypass Surgery is not for everyone, who is facing overweight problems and wants to lose weight. Before you choose gastric bypass consult with your doctors to know the risks and benefits of the surgery. This weight loss surgery is suitable for those whose weight is over 100 pounds with the BMI (Body Mass Index) more than 40. The person who has 35 to 40 BMI can also choose Gastric Bypass surgery, but after talking with your weight loss surgeon by knowing all pros and cons.

In this blog, we are going to discuss the diet plan before and after Gastric Bypass surgery:

Diet Plan before the surgery

Try to lose weight before the surgery because it will help you to lose the amount of fat around your stomach and abdomen area.
This may allow you to laparoscopy rather than go for open surgery. Laparoscopic surgery is less invasive. It needs less recovery time and is easier on your body.

If you lose weight before gastric bypass surgery, it will be helpful during your surgery procedure, but also treat you for a new diet plan. It will show a long-lasting impact.

Your diet plan and weight loss goal will be determined by your surgeon. If you will not achieve the targeted weight loss, maybe your surgery will be canceled or postponed. Your diet plan will be fixed after your surgery consideration; you should start as soon as possible:

Your diet plan varies from person to person it includes:

• Eliminate saturated products from your meal like milk, fried food, fatty meat, and so on.

• Try to decrease the number of carbohydrates includes, pasta, potatoes, etc.
• Eliminate high sugar products like juice, soda, and others.
• Eliminate alcohol, cigarette, and other recreational drugs from your daily use.
• Don’t drink beverages when you are eating the food.
• Exercise portion control
• Use multivitamins
• Take supplements like protein shakes or powder.
• Avoid binge eating.

What to eat

The pre-op diet consists of a large number of protein shakes and other high-protein, and the low-calorie foods are easy to digest. Protein helps bolster and protect muscle tissue. This will help your body to burn fat instead of muscle for fuel. Protein helps your body to keep strong, which will help you to speed up recovery after surgery.

When the date comes nears of your surgery, you may need to have mostly-liquid or liquid-only diet. According to your body weight and overall health, your doctor may allow you to eat some solids during this time but before easting, any solid substance consults with your doctor. This may include fish, watered-down hot cereal, or soft-boiled eggs.

Before the Gastric Bypass surgery, make sure you talk with the anesthesiologist for instructions about to know do and don’t before the surgery. These suggestions are changing according to your body needs. They can suggest you drink carbohydrate-rich fluids up to two hours before surgery.

So if you are looking for Gastric Bypass surgery, you can contact us @ 361-500-2898. At Better Weigh Center we have experienced surgeon for your weight loss surgery.