Eating Out On A Gastric Bypass Diet

By reducing the size of the stomach and allowing for less calories, gastric bypass surgery is an efficient way of losing weight. After the surgery, key decisions need to be made regarding this new lifestyle and this includes diet and exercise. For the weight to stay off, high-protein foods are important and a balanced diet is a must. Therefore, there is a certain panic when someone suggests eating at a restaurant.  Below are some suggestions of how to handle eating out when on a gastric bypass diet.

Gastric Sleeve Pouch Reset: Does It Actually Work?

If the scale has started moving the wrong way after your sleeve, you have probably found the "pouch reset" — a five-day return to liquids and then soft foods, sold as a way to shrink your stomach back down.

Here is the honest answer: the reset does not shrink your stomach, because that is not what went wrong. What it can do is interrupt habits, and that is worth something — just not what it's usually advertised as.

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