After weight loss surgery especially early on, your food portion sizes can be tiny, you may or may not feel hungry and you likely aren't able to easily meet your nutrition targets without eating small regular meals during the day and supplementing. When you speak to a few people, your surgical team and get onto your favourite Facebook support group you may end up confused as to whether you should be eating 3 meals during the day, 4-6 meals or just grazing all day long. It may even seem like you are eating and drinking all day! (A strange phenomena since all your life the emphasis may have been to not eat much...)So what is it that you should be...
Do you get hungry? Perhaps you thought that after surgery you’d never be hungry again…But the hunger pangs seem to be returning and you're a bit concerned... Don't be! Having weight loss surgery doesn’t mean that you will never be hungry again… In my experience, I often see 2 types of outcomes after surgery, patients who never feel hunger and can forget to eat and those who do feel hunger when they need to eat but are then satisfied on a small amount of food (make sure the food consumed is nutritious containing some protein, dairy, fibre or vegetables). Hunger is your body’s way of telling you that it needs fuel so it’s normal (even after surgery). So don’t be alarmed if you...
Have you ever gotten on the scales and it hasn't budged for 2 weeks despite your best attempts to lose weight? We've all been there and after bariatric surgery, no movement on the scales can be not only frustrating but also disheartening or even devastating. But during every weight loss journey there will be weeks where we stick to the weight loss plan yet the scales doesn’t move. Sometimes it could be something we've changed and we are unaware of it, other times we need to make certain changes to get it going again, but in general sometimes you'll just have a few weeks there that the body almost takes a vacation from weight loss and nothing happens despite your best efforts....
When losing weight, hunger can be your worst enemy. Perhaps it feels stronger than ever because you know you are eating less and sacrificing some of the foods you love. Regardless of the cause, it’s come and you now must decide what to do. I was speaking to a friend at the end of last week at a bariatric clinic I work at (you know who you are ;) about hunger and how this can be one of the most challenging things to staying on track when you are losing weight. Hunger can strike anyone regardless of having bariatric surgery or not so I thought it was a great topic to write about. Note: it is often thought that you...
After bariatric surgery such as the gastric sleeve, bypass or lapband, you won’t be able to eat the same amount for food as you used to and often certain types of food does go down as well as others (e.g. the food pictured). So eating out can sometimes be something you dread. But it doesn’t have to be like that, and you should still enjoy eating out. Here are 5 tips to make eating out easier. Get involved in choosing the restaurant / café If you have any influence in the restaurant choice, check the menu in advance or choose places that serve healthy food that you can eat or smaller portions. This can make the event much more...
