Most bariatric doctors perform more than one kind of surgery, but gastric sleeve is the only solution we provide at Endobariatric. Why do I only perform gastric sleeve? Because it’s the safest, most effective bariatric choice for permanent weight loss, and my patients deserve nothing less than the best. Here are just a few of ...
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Nutrition tends to steal the spotlight after you have gastric sleeve. Learning what and how much to eat is crucial for weight loss success, as well as avoiding gastrointestinal discomfort. With so much emphasis on food, however, sometimes exercise gets lost in the mix. I want to encourage you to bring it back into the ...
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Eating is a source of pleasure for most of our patients, and many are worried that VSG surgery means they’ll never enjoy a meal again. Steak, salmon, omelets…sounds just awful, doesn’t it? Yep, those are just a few choices we heartily approve of for sleeve patients. The truth is that you can eat whatever you ...
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Life after gastric sleeve surgery can be vastly different than it was before. This new lifestyle, after all, is what helps patients lose weight and keep it off. We get lots of questions about every aspect of life after gastric sleeve, but questions about protein consumption seem to be some of the most popular. So ...
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Bariatric surgery is a great way of regaining control of your life and starting anew on a healthy path. As a doctor who has performed over 17,000 gastric sleeve surgeries, I know that my patients can sometimes struggle with developing better eating habits, having acquired a taste for the saltiness and sugariness of junk food. ...
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While many patients want to wait until after having gastric sleeve surgery to make any serious life changes, you can certainly benefit from making some lifestyle adjustments in the weeks and months leading up to the procedure. Having performed gastric sleeve surgery on thousands of patients, I have seen firsthand how the patients who work ...
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If you are obese, you have probably heard more times than you care to recall that you should simply put in the effort to lose the weight. As a prominent bariatric surgeon, I can assure you that for many people, there is nothing “simple” about natural weight loss. In fact, obese people will often find ...
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Yes. Or no. Does that help? The truth is that I’ve heard the gastric sleeve pre-op diet described as everything from “horrible” to “a breeze”. Your experience will be your own, though some things tend to be pretty common during this period. But first, let’s take a quick look at a few pre-op diet facts. ...
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Before vertical sleeve gastrectomy, many patients are completely out of touch with what it means to be (healthily) full. Depending on their habits and physical/psychological issues, some eat until they feel like they’ll explode, while others have rarely felt full in their lives. So part of the recovery process after gastric sleeve in Mexico is ...
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