Lifestyle Changes after Weight Loss Surgery

After your weight loss surgery is performed at our Orange County clinic, near Los Angeles, you will have to make dramatic changes in how you eat and drink. Your bariatric surgery whether it’s a gastric bypass surgery or LAP-BAND® surgery is a starting point of your journey to a healthy lifestyle.

In terms of lifestyle changes, you really have to change the way you eat and drink following an operation like either the LAP-BAND or the gastric bypass. The operation itself is really the start of the process and really what you make of it is what will determine how successful your are with it, but typically what it involves is eating much smaller portions at meal times over a longer period of time. So, for example a typical meal would be about the size may be half a sandwich or 4 ounces of something solid that you want to eat over about 45 minutes or so. As the weight loss comes off, you know, certain activities that you might not have been able to participate may be open to you and so certainly we encourage increasing your activity through any kind of exercise that you can tolerate.