Gastric Sleeve Puzzles: Restaurants and Snacking


Sometimes being a gastric sleeve patient means learning to navigate the world in a whole new way. Snacking and eating in restaurants are everyday things you probably haven’t thought much about in decades, right? Even if you weren’t consuming the “right” foods, you knew what to do. But life with a sleeve means reevaluating how ...
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How to Avoid Cheating on Your Diet


As a bariatric surgeon, I have seen how struggling to maintain your diet is one of the biggest obstacles to losing weight. If you find yourself frequently cheating on your diet — or at least thinking about it — I want to offer you some suggestions that I believe can help you to make healthy ...
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Dumping Syndrome: Why Gastric Sleeve Patients Don’t Need to Worry


If you check out message boards populated by bariatric surgery patients, you will inevitably come across a thread of patients complaining about dumping syndrome. Dumping syndrome describes when a person eats unhealthy foods that pass from the stomach to the bowels super quickly, creating nausea and discomfort shortly after eating. While this condition mainly occurs ...
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Babies and Gastric Sleeve: Is Pregnancy Possible After VSG surgery?


I perform gastric sleeve on patients from teens to seniors, and their questions run the gamut from how soon they can return to football practice to whether Medicare covers the procedure. But among women of childbearing years, questions about pregnancy are standard. The good news-bad news situation: Pregnancy is not only possible afterward, but it’s ...
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The Best Advice from Gastric Sleeve Veterans


Every week, I offer prospective and current gastric sleeve patients guidance, tips, and information through these blogs. But this week, I’m going straight to the real expects: experienced sleevers who’ve “been there, done that” and have the advice to prove it. On life after surgery “The sleeve is still just a tool. Tools don’t work ...
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Are You a Good Candidate for Gastric Sleeve Surgery?


You’re overweight and want to live a healthier life. Does that automatically make you a good candidate for gastric sleeve surgery? To a surgeon who has your best interests, your safety, and your long-term success in mind, the answer is “no.” To be considered an ideal patient at Endobariatric, I look at a number of ...
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