What to Know About Post Weight Loss Surgery Nutrition
What to Know About Post Weight Loss Surgery Nutrition
Weight loss surgery is a great tool for long time weight loss, but a change in life-long eating habits needs to accompany it.
After surgery, your digestive system goes through a transition stage of taking in fluids, to pureed foods, soft foods and then solids. Your body will require sufficient amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and mineral, and fluids for proper nutrition. Talk with your surgeon about providing you with a post-op nutrition plan and how much protein and calories your daily intake should be.
To have an effective weight loss after bariatric surgery, you need to change your life-long eating habits to smaller portioned, protein-rich, low carbohydrate meals. A change in life style such as being more active and getting more exercise, combined with a well balanced nutritional diet is a plan for success. Failure to adapt to better eating habits may result in poor nutrition. Early post-op food intake is restricted to slightly less than a cup and so small portions throughout the day must be learned.
There is a huge change in diet immediately following your weight loss surgery; it consists of four food stages: 1. liquids, 2. pured food, 3. soft food, 4. solid foods. There is a gradual liquid transition from clear (water, tea, diluted, broth), to full liquids (soups, shakes, milk, yogurt), to pureed food (soup, cottage, oatmeal, and jell-o), (solids at this time may get stuck in the stomach and cause pain). After the initial post-surgery liquid and pureed food stage is soft foods. Some soft foods included cooked veggies and soft fruit. When you get to solid foods remember to eat slowly, chew thoroughly, and digest quality carbohydrates, low-fat, and high protein foods.
Quality protein intake recommendation is about 60-80 g per day, or 0.8 gram per/kilo of body mass. Get more proteins if you are active. Two different kinds of proteins exist: animal proteins and plant proteins. Animal proteins are complete (containing all the essential amino acids), and plant-based proteins, which are not complete, (with the exception of soy protein). Animal proteins are higher in fat and calories, while plant protein is lower in both, and is especially lower in saturated fat. Protein is available in fish, eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, low fat cheese, soy products, legumes, and protein powder.
Benefits of protein include:
Speeds wound healing
Builds and repairs damaged tissue
Take vitamin and mineral supplements and drink at least 6-8 glasses of water a day. Vitamin C increase new tissue growth and Vitamin K prevents the blood from clotting while B Vitamins help fight off anemia. A multi-vitamin and calcium supplement can help you recover quicker. Minerals replace electrolytes that have been lost in the body and 6-8 glasses of water per day will keep you hydrated.
Weight loss surgery is a tool that helps you live a better life. Along with this new tool you'll need to get daily exercise and change your eating habits by meeting the dietary requirements of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). Eat several small meals a day, eat slowly, and eat protein first in case you start to feel full early on. Take vitamin and mineral supplements and drink plenty of water to keep hydrated.
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