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you have successfully completed Adjustable Gastric Lap-Band Surgery,you want to manage your weight loss in the best way possible. By incorporating a few important features into your eating habits, you can achieve your desired weight and maintain that weight as long as you believe you can.

Right after completion of the surgery

1. The week after the surgery you will eat only clear juice, gelatin and broth.

2. For the following five to six weeks your diet will consist of pureed foods and protein shakes only. This will give your system time to adjust to the change and it eliminates the potential of band slippage that could cause additional surgery.

3. A new exercise plan such as exercise bike or water therapy should be developed.

A Month and a Half Post-Operative

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One- After beginning to cook it, start adding your choice of ground meat (could be turkey, chicken, or veal). Hamburgers, pork chops and steak should be avoided because they are difficult to digest.

2. You should eat mostly salads and other vegetables, after shedding them with a food processor. You can consume any vegetable with the exception of those with a lot of starch or seeds.

3. Stay away from starchy foods.

Number Four. Protein is very important during this period and your diet should consist of fifty to sixty grams of protein per day.

5. Eat at a slow pace and take little bites. Keep in mind your stomach can only have 4 to 6 ounces/meal.

Number six. It’s importanat to follow the exercise program prescribed for your body type and perhaps even to consider increasing it.

A quarter of the year post-surgery as well as into the future. Begin to think about food differently. Eat for the sake of continuing to live, don’t just live so that you can eat.

2. Set aside 30 to 45 minutes for each meal. Eat thrice a day. Relish every piece attending to the composition, texture, aroma, and palatability.

3. Chew well counting the number of chews in each bite.

Number Four. When you get a full feeling or you feel pressure in your abdomen you need to stop eating.

5. Just eat solid foods at your three mealtimes.

Number six. Throughout every day you should slowly drink 4 to six glasses of fluids.

7. Cutting down on drinks with high caloric content such as milk shakes, alcoholic beverages, and carbonated liquids.
8. Workout on routine basis. Do this three or four times per week for a duration of fourty-five minutes.

Number One. You must be sure to include all of the basic food groups in those meals.

2. Maintain healthy protein levels and regenerate body cells by eating foods in the milk group: Skim milk, yogurt, cheese and custard.

3. Add iron and protein to increase your protection against infection by adding fish, poultry or lean meat to your diet.

Number Four. While you continue to eat fruit and vegetables, along with drinking plenty of juices, you should control your body functions by taking additional vitamins and minerals.

5. Add carbohydrates, vitamin B and other minerals that are found in grains such as rice, corn cereal, rice noodles and macaroni to your diet.

Number six. Keep exercising. It’s similar to eating,you must do it.

Keeping an impartial eating habit which comprises these food groups with an exercise plan will uphold your weight and will reduce some of the strain and worry that is a routine matter. Moderation in eating and understanding what your body is capable of after Lap-Band Surgery, are important tools in managing your weight. You can do it, if u believe u can.