Many years ago, weight loss surgery was viewed as this medical miracle, a magic bullet for weight loss. This fi t perfectly with our desire to lose weight without changing our ways — in other words, having our cake and eating it, too. What we came to find out is that surgery is just a tool, and if you don’t use that tool correctly, success will be fleeting.
We now know that surgery is only part of the process, and weight loss is truly a journey and not a destination. To reach your
goals and change your life, you have to change the way you look at food. Surgery will help control portion size, but it won’t make you eat fruits and vegetables. I am always surprised at how little most people know about preparing healthy meals, and
without this knowledge, attempting to make the surgery successful can be frustrating.
What every patient should have the moment he or she leaves the hospital is a user guide for cooking, eating, and living well after surgery.
That guide should specify from day one through the rest of his or her life how to shop for and prepare nutritious meals that will not only help that patient lose weight but will also help him or her to live a happy, healthy life. Of course,if those meals are merely “good for you” and not tasty and fulfilling, this attempt will become just another diet that is tried and abandoned.
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