Take care of your tool.

Weight Loss Surgery Support:
Daily Inspiration for April 22, 2010 Katie Jay, MSW

Take care of your "tool." 

A carpenter uses a router to carve beautiful designs and to make notches to piece furniture together. Yet if he does not know how to use this tool, he only destroys the wood he is carving.  

The same holds true with your stomach pouch. If you care for it by following your surgeon's guidelines, your tool will perform well for you. For example, gastric bypass patients who continually eat more than their pouch can comfortably hold may stretch the stoma or opening from the stomach to the intestines. Lapband patients may avoid getting a needed fill or may eat too many soft, rich foods, thus making their tool ineffective. 

Action for the day: Review your surgeon's instructions. Are you using your pouch well? 
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Great information to always remember.  At the end of the day, it was a gift and it is a tool.  And if we abuse it, it will break.  So handle with care. :)

I know I"m going back to the basics myself remembering all those promises I made to myself, the doctors, my family ten years ago.  I made those promises for life, so I need to make sure I use the tool the way it was intended.