After weight loss surgery comes another important phase in the bariatric surgery process - aftercare. Aftercare is the process in which a specialized physician will monitor your progress and help you lose the desired amount of weight in the healthiest way possible. Following bariatric surgery comes a part when patients are expected to follow a strict discipline in regards to their dieting and general lifestyle.
Our aftercare physician will help ensure that you are on track to lose weight and reduce the health risks associated with bariatric surgery.
What Does Aftercare entail?
Typically, these programs including an outline on the dieting aspect after surgery. Dieting after bariatric surgery is the most important aspect of post-surgery monitoring. Making the right diet choices will help you speed up the weight loss process; while making incorrect choices will lead to further impediment to weight loss. Our aftercare specialist will also advise you on an exercise routine, which will start out slow then increase to include more physically-demanding activities.
Supplements is another important aspect of maintaining a nutritious diet. Our doctor will guide you throughout the process of a vitamin and mineral supplement regimen.
Can I Manage My Own Aftercare?
Many patients who’ve undergone bariatric surgery often feel that the hard part is over. They are somewhat surprised to find that after bariatric surgery, involves a phase that can seem daunting. After bariatric surgery often requires many followups and progress reports, which sometimes seems unnecessary to patients. Patients should not take control of their own aftercare as research says patients increased their weight loss when they are actively engaged with their aftercare physician.
Patients who humbly follow physician’s suggestions lose more weight (35% more) after bariatric surgery, than those who don’t take the suggestions. American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, also says that those patients who lost more weight are more likely to keep the weight off.
Our Aftercare Doctor:
Dr. Pablo Francisco Romero Navarro
Our aftercare physician will design short-term and long-term plans for success. Some patients who undergo weight loss surgery will fail to gain adequate weight reduction. Our goal is to genuinely increase your daily quality of life, and it beings the moment after surgery.
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