One of the most important factors in bariatric surgery is to have regular follow-up appointments after weight loss surgery. Your bariatric surgeon and his trained staff will be able to offer you the best follow up care to ensure the most complete long-term care and maintain your bariatric surgery success. 7
After bariatric surgery, it can be hard to prioritize what is most important for your weight loss surgery journey. To make sure you are focused and don't forget, keep the list of these Bariatric Surgery: 10 Things To Do & 10 Things Not To Do tips. Top 10 Things To
Everyone knows that weight loss surgery isn’t just a one day or one year journey. It is a lifelong one. Here are 15 things you can do to reach your goal for weight loss and stay successful after your WLS. 15 Tips to Stay Successful After Your WLS Eat mindfully
Have you been overindulging? Are your “cheats” becoming more frequent or have your portions gotten bigger? Are you eating food from your kid’s plate and not really “counting” it? Have you been slacking on exercise? Or are you exercising, but not seeing results? Be honest with yourself. Even seemingly small
Candy Cane Deformity I was sitting in my office, the other day, when suddenly I hear a patient in our lobby coughing continuously. I thought to myself, I bet she has the Candy Cane deformity. Sure enough, she was my next patient, a patient of my fathers’ who had an
As our knowledge and understanding of obesity as a disease progresses, it’s becoming more evident that the disease process is chronic and relapsing. This is one of the main reasons for medical therapy failure in the intermediate and long run. Surgery affects multiple hormonal pathways and therefore allows for more
Bariatric surgery has been shown to be a safe and effective long-term treatment for obesity. Over the past 25 years, there has been an increase in the number of primary bariatric operations in the United States. As a result of this trend, revisional bariatric procedures are expected to increase. The
Prior to weight loss surgery, your insurance company or provider may require a 6-month supervised diet. Many insurance companies will not consider a request for weight loss surgery unless a patient has previously participated in a medically supervised weight loss program. The purpose of this requirement is to show a
It’s so rewarding to be a part of an individual’s journey through weight loss surgery and to be able to share in their excitement as they improve quality of life so quickly after surgery. Through the excitement, I still like to remind my patients that bariatric surgery does not produce
Weight Loss Surgery could be more accurately called "Metabolic Surgery" due to its mechanism of action. The most powerful effects of weight loss surgery are by changing and re-formatting the manner in which the body uses energy and utilizes food. (I discuss this in detail in one of my articles
