Take Care of your tool.

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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I'm only two weeks out... but the notebook that my surgeon sent me home with is in the cupboard with my vitamins, protein drinks and meal replacements... and I've often told my husband that it's going to be page weary when I'm done... I'm into that book at least once a day re-reading something, verifying something else or looking for information that I know I read the first or second time I read the entire book.

Thank goodness I have that book!!! It's saved me numerous times when I was doubting something or questioning something.