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- It is imperative that you visit with Dr.J regularly on scheduled post operative visits. Your results will be suboptimal if you neglect follow-up visits.
- Please do not forget that you loose weight because of what you DO and EAT after surgery. Surgery is only a tool!
- Recommended follow-up schedule:
- 2 weeks
- 6 weeks
- 3 months
- 6 months
- 1 year
- Necessary lab tests will be ordered to ensure you have adequate nutrition and to prevent chemical imbalance.
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- Lifelong commitment to adjusting the eating habits and exercise is essential. Surgery alone will not take the pounds off AND keep them off. Surgery is only a tool.
- You will be consuming sugar free full liquid diet in the first 2 weeks.
- Soft solid diet for the next 3-4 weeks.
- Regular diet after 6 weeks at frequent intervals.
- Diets to avoid:
- sugar
- soft untoasted bread
- steak in most instances
- carbonated drinks (may stretch the pouch)
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