Eating is a source of pleasure for most of our patients, and many are worried that VSG surgery means they’ll never enjoy a meal again. Steak, salmon, omelets…sounds just awful, doesn’t it? Yep, those are just a few choices we heartily approve of for sleeve patients. The truth is that you can eat whatever you ...
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Category: Gastric sleeve
4 Myths About Protein After Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Life after gastric sleeve surgery can be vastly different than it was before. This new lifestyle, after all, is what helps patients lose weight and keep it off. We get lots of questions about every aspect of life after gastric sleeve, but questions about protein consumption seem to be some of the most popular. So ...
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Foods That Are Low in Calories But Not Low in Flavor
Bariatric surgery is a great way of regaining control of your life and starting anew on a healthy path. As a doctor who has performed over 17,000 gastric sleeve surgeries, I know that my patients can sometimes struggle with developing better eating habits, having acquired a taste for the saltiness and sugariness of junk food. ...
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What Lifestyle Changes Should You Make Before Gastric Sleeve?
While many patients want to wait until after having gastric sleeve surgery to make any serious life changes, you can certainly benefit from making some lifestyle adjustments in the weeks and months leading up to the procedure. Having performed gastric sleeve surgery on thousands of patients, I have seen firsthand how the patients who work ...
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Why Natural Weight Loss Is Harder for Obese People
If you are obese, you have probably heard more times than you care to recall that you should simply put in the effort to lose the weight. As a prominent bariatric surgeon, I can assure you that for many people, there is nothing “simple” about natural weight loss. In fact, obese people will often find ...
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Is the Gastric Sleeve Surgery Pre-Op Diet Really That Bad?
Yes. Or no. Does that help? The truth is that I’ve heard the gastric sleeve pre-op diet described as everything from “horrible” to “a breeze”. Your experience will be your own, though some things tend to be pretty common during this period. But first, let’s take a quick look at a few pre-op diet facts. ...
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Learning What “Full” Feels Like After Gastric Sleeve
Before vertical sleeve gastrectomy, many patients are completely out of touch with what it means to be (healthily) full. Depending on their habits and physical/psychological issues, some eat until they feel like they’ll explode, while others have rarely felt full in their lives. So part of the recovery process after gastric sleeve in Mexico is ...
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Can Gastric Sleeve Surgery Help with Food Addiction?
Many people who seek out gastric sleeve surgery are more than food lovers; they’re food addicts. And, having lived with this very real disorder for years, it’s understandable that patients wonder whether the procedure will have any effect on their ability to control their interactions with food. The short answer is yes, it can help ...
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Dealing With “Too Skinny” Comments After Gastric Sleeve Surgery
After years of feeling awful about your weight (and probably being bullied for it), you made the courageous decision to undergo gastric sleeve surgery in Mexico. And you’ve succeeded in getting healthy! It should be all roses from here on out, right? Unfortunately, many VSG patients quickly realize that not everyone is thrilled with their ...
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