John Carter - Gastric Sleeve Diet: Step By Step Guide For Planning What to Do and Eat Before and After Your Surgery

Gastric Sleeve Diet

Step By Step Guide For Planning What to Do and Eat Before and After Your Surgery

Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, Gastric Sleeve Diet Guide: Planning What to Do and Eat Before and After Your Surgery. This book gives an overall, but detailed, view of the various aspects regarding the patients experience with gastric sleeve surgery.

Gastric sleeve surgery is compared to gastric bypass surgery so that the reader can be confident that the gastric sleeve procedure is the right choice for them. Various risks associated with each procedure, though not likely, are discussed.

Proven steps and strategies on various things the gastric sleeve patient needs to do and eat before their surgery are discussed. Emphasis is made on how to find the correct surgeon for you. Many common questions that gastric sleeve patients have are answered in this book, including the subjects of stomach stretching and pain.

Common diets for the two-week period before the surgery and for the various time periods following the surgery are given, as well as the reasons the patient needs to stay on the surgeons prescribed diet. Recipes are not included in this book.

Every effort was made to give the reader the information that he needs to plan a course to safely reach his or her weight loss goal through the use of the gastric sleeve procedure.

Thanks again for downloading this book. I hope you enjoy it!

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Chapter 1: Be Sure About Your Procedure Choice

W hat Gastric Sleeve Surgery is

The other name for this procedure is sleeve gastrectomy . It is a restrictive operation that makes your stomach smaller so that you will feel fuller quicker and eat less food. This procedure involves the removal of more than half of your stomach. After your surgery, only a vertical tube that is about the size of a banana is left.

This surgery should be considered as a tool for weight loss rather than a quick fix because the patient will need to eat a healthy diet and exercise following the surgery. It is not cosmetic surgery where fat is removed. Only part of the stomach is removed.

History

United Healthcare (insurance) added sleeve gastrectomy to their list of surgeries that they cover for weight loss on January 1, 2010. Almost all other major health insurance companies began to cover this procedure during the next two years.

It is extremely difficult to get health insurance companies to approve new procedures, but gastric sleeve surgery was approved because there was evidence that the procedure brought about significant weight loss and the complication rates were low.

Additionally, surgeons were already doing the procedure on patients who were covered by insurance. This was an accomplishment because surgery on obese people is riskier than surgery on people of normal size.

The gastric sleeve procedure initially was the first of two surgeries that were normally done. Insurance companies paid for the first surgery and then paid for the second one a year or so later after weight was lost. However, it was discovered that the sleeve procedure was successful in getting peoples weight off without the second surgery being done.

Sleeve patients lost as much weight as the gastric bypass patients did over time. The gastric sleeve procedure proved to be quicker, less complicated, and safer than the gastric bypass procedure, and the surgeons quickly started to prefer performing the sleeve operations.

Patients liked the results too because they just didnt experience hunger anymore. In fact, some of them had to remind themselves to eat.

Reasons for Gastric Sleeve Surgery

This surgery is done to help people to lose weight and to keep the extra weight off. This procedure is done when the patient is severely overweight and has been unable to lose weight through diet, exercise or medicine and where emotional eating was not the cause for the weight gain.

Even though the smaller stomach can eventually be stretched out to accommodate more food, this surgery encourages the patient to eat less food so that obesity wont remain a problem.

Candidates for this procedure have a body mass index that is 40 - 60 (or even higher) and/or they have a weight-related life-threatening or disabling problem and a body mass index of at least 35.

Studies show that obese people who undergo this surgery are less likely to die from cancer, diabetes and heart problems than obese people who never lose the weight.

The gastric sleeve procedure is less risky than a gastric bypass is because the small intestine is not divided and reconnected like it is in a bypass procedure. Major complications that require re-operation occur in less than 5% of gastric sleeve patients.