Let’s talk about… food after weight-loss surgery

For those of you who haven’t seen our previous posts yet, my husband Alan and I both got a Gastric Bypass done at Irmet Hospital in Turkey. I get a lot of questions about what our food intake looks like now and immediately after surgery, so below I’m going to highlight our experience with re-introducing food to our new, much smaller stomach.

• “You’ve gained a bit of weight haven’t you?”
• “If you want to live to grow old, you need to lose weight now while you’re still young.”
• “You take after your [insert relative/ancestor’s name here], she was also overweight.”
• “Why don’t you follow this diet, I’ve lost the 8kg I had gained with it.”
  “Speak to [insert nutritionist name here], I lost 10kg with her fitness-challenge.”
• “Cut out sweets and soft-drinks and eat more veg u tara kif tonqos malajr”
• “Skip that movie and go for a walk instead.”
• “Jahasra if only you lose weight, you’ll be so beautiful u forsi xi darba jigbrok xi hadt”