A question which many people ask us and we always try our best to explain is this; How many calories should I eat after a Gastric Bypass? To answer this first I need to explain briefly once again what does the bypass really do. In a nut-shell, the gastric bypass procedure is a common way for obese patients to lose large amounts of weight in a short period of time. It takes the stomach and forms a pouch, then cuts the rest of the stomach off from that pouch. The pouch part is then connected to a lower part of the intestine.
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Let’s talk about: Food After Weight-Loss Surgery
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.
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Tackling weight-loss surgery – Part Two
If you haven’t read part 1 yet, click on THIS link first.
It’s been three and a half months since my husband Alan and I flew out to Istanbul on a cold January morning for our Gastric Bypasses. It’s been exactly 106 days since the day of both our surgeries, and how are we doing? Amazing so far!
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Fat Shaming – A recollection of experiences – Part 1
Today’s subject is quite a touchy one. I’m going to be mentioning a few cases that happened to me personally throughout my life where I was fat-shamed, picked on or else discriminated against because of my size. This blog isn’t written so that people feel sorry for me, trust me I’m a very strong person and these experiences, in one way or another, helped shape my character today. The only reason I’m writing this blog is to raise awareness on how fat-shaming, bullying and discrimination due to size is actually a real thing.
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Let’s talk about another taboo; Weight-loss surgery.
- “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”