Gastric Bypass Diet

A gastric bypass diet actually has many stages. When you first discuss the possibility of gastric bypass surgery with your physician, you will be asked to begin a diet to help you lose weight before your surgery.

According to Dr. Mary P. McGowan, who helped develop the bariatric surgery program at the Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, most surgeons ask their patients to lose up to 8% of their body weight prior to the surgery. A nutrionist will work with you to develop a low-calorie diet to help you lose these pounds.

Because many patients are unable to tolerate sugar after their surgery, (it can cause very uncomfortable symptoms), you may be encouraged to eliminate sugar from your diet before your operation. This dietary change will help you adjust to the changed requirements of your body after the weight loss surgery.

Following the surgery, you will probably be on a water fast in the first week or so while your body heals. Your stomach will now hold about two ounces of food or fluid. After the initial water-only fast, you'll be allowed clear liquids and broths in the next stage of your post gastric bypass diet, then you'll move to liquid foods, such as yogurt and thin oatmeal. The next stage will allow pureed foods in small quantities, then you'll move to chopped foods, and eventually you'll be allowed "real" food, in small bite-sized pieces.

The diet following your gastric bypass is so limited in calories that it essential that you stay in touch with your nutrional counselor, and take any supplements that are recommended. Moving through the various stages of this diet will take approximately a year, and you should have lost up to 75% or more of your excess weight.

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Gastric Bypass Diet

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