Gastric Sleeve Diet: Step By Step Guide For Planning What to Do and Eat Before and After Your Surgery by John Carter

Author:John Carter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mark Smith
Published: 2018-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: More Questions to Ask before Surgery

How much weight can I expect to lose?

You need to know how much weight you should expect to lose after the surgery. Do the calculations and you will know. You will lose somewhere around 60% of the extra weight over two years, with likely the majority of it coming off in the first year.

Long-term weight loss, however, is more dependent on what you eat, how much you exercise, etc. than on which one of the procedures you choose. It is possible to gain all of the weight back.

Will my stomach stretch after surgery?

It can stretch, but it depends on how much you normally feed it. For an occasional large meal, your stomach can stretch to accommodate it and then get back to its smaller size. However, if you continue to give it large meals (or meals too large for the size your stomach will be), then it can and will stretch and not get back to its smaller size. If you stretch it back out, you eat more food. When you eat more food, you gain weight.

People often become fat because their hunger and full signals are actually broken. It would be best to monitor how much food you eat. Even an occasional small sweet is better than an excessively large amount of quality food because you are not stretching your stomach.

Can I still drink alcohol after my gastric sleeve surgery?

Yes, you can have alcohol after your surgery, but it will make you drunker much faster than before you have your surgery because of having a smaller stomach that holds less food. It would be advisable to just give up alcohol.

While you can have wine or something after your surgery, you need to be very aware that one or two glasses of wine for you would have the same effect as six or seven glasses of wine would have on a person who has a normal-sized stomach. If you do that regularly, you become an alcoholic.

In fact, studies show that many people who have no history of alcohol abuse easily become alcoholics and get charged with DWIs from about two years after having a gastric sleeve surgery onward because they drink the same amount of alcohol they did before their surgery, not realizing the effect alcohol has on them after their stomach has become small.

Let your family know this if you drink at all so they can help you keep your alcohol consumption under control.

You also need to remember that alcohol is a carbohydrate as well as something that can make you drunk. As a carbohydrate, it has no nutritional benefit, and too much of it can cause you to gain weight. ‘Too much” for a person with a small stomach is not very much.

Alcohol is also toxic to your body and will negatively affect your liver much faster than you would imagine it would. You will need to keep all of this information in mind if you must drink.

Besides sensitivities to alcohol,

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