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The interesting thing about weight loss surgery is that once a person has the surgery, they start to learn about healthy eating habits.  For those individuals that have had weight loss surgery and are looking for foods that are healthy, there are really not too many options that are available for the long term.  For those that landed on this page looking for healthy long-term foods that can be eaten for post-weight loss surgery care, you have come to the right page. Weight gain after weight loss surgery is not only a reality for many thousands of people, it can easily become your reality.

The issue that post weight loss surgery recipients must deal with is the eating of smaller portions, while still being able to consume the needed nutrition on a daily basis.  What we have heard and seen happen to many post weight loss surgery individuals is that they stray from the needed list of foods and recommended quantities.  Over time many post surgery recipients start to wander into larger quantity of foods that do not offer the needed nutrition.  This not only adds to weight gain, but also brings with it certain health risks.

Once those that have had weight loss surgery get past the first year and settle into their new and altered body, many of the old, unresolved problems return.  All too often many weight loss surgery recipients start to stray from the requirements they have been taught and the weight starts to return.  This is because the issues that contributed to personal obesity had never really been resolved.  Gaining weight after weight loss surgery is not only common, it is dangerous if that weight gain gets out of control.

If you, or someone you know has had weight loss surgery, it is strongly suggested you take a look at what Medifast has to offer.  Each of the meals contain 1/5th of the needed daily requirement of nutrition.  Also, by eating the smaller portions more often, there is little risk of the stomach pouch stretching in size.  Medifast is not only good to lose weight, it is great way to get the needed nutrition after weight loss surgery. 

By eating Medifast after surgery, such as bariatric, a person will be able to maintain nutritional integrity while keeping the quantity of calories and food volume to the minimum needed, to maintain thinness.  If you have had weight loss surgery and are starting to see a gain of weight, Medifast is a great option to prevent obesity from returning.  We know you do not want to return to the silent ridicule you endured before the procedure, and we know you do not want to endure it even more so by gaining the weight back again.  Medifast is clinically proven (Johns Hopkins) and it has been around for many years.  You owe it to yourself to at least check it out.

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Gaining weight after a gastric bypass is not uncommon, and because of that I would like to spend a moment to help you deal with the issue that you thought you had resolved.  The sad truth of weight loss surgery is that it is not a permanent solution for a large percentage of individuals that gain their weight back.  If you are sitting there worried about the fact that you are gaining your weight back again you are by no means alone.  The reality of weight loss surgery is that it is as non-personal a procedure as it can possibly be for a person tohave done.

I have little doubt that your doctor was really nice to you, and was very caring and made you feel like everything was going to be alright… and you would be just fine.  Unfortunately all of that tenderness and care went away soon after your check, or insurance payment cleared.  To prove my point you just have to remember that you have not heard from your surgeon in quite a while, and that is common.  In reality the main thing your doctor was concerned with was your form of payment, and now that it has cleared the only real question is …”who are you?” because they have moved on to the next paycheck.  The first warning bell really is when you heard the term “mechanical intervention” for the actual procedure of weight loss surgery.  How impersonal is that term?  The sad truth is that there you sit staring at the computer feeling like the world is crumbling all around you because you feel as if you made an ultimate screwup.  What I want you to realize is that what is done is done, and the past is the past and you can’t do anything about the past.  You can only act in the present and do something now.  Gaining weight after weight loss surgery may be happening now…but let’s see what we can do about it to stop it from happening anymore!

The first thing you have to do is move on and stop making the date of weight loss surgery some sort of marker in time.  The issue is not with the weight loss surgery because there are many people who do not gain their weight back again after the surgery, and move on to lead healthy lives.  The issue is really in the fact that nowhere along the path leading up to the surgery did the doctor spend much time discussing why you ended up obese in the first place, which is really the issue.  I am not blaming it on the doctor because I do not subscribe to that school of belief.  I believe that every man, woman and child should be responsible for their actions.  I want you to take that feeling of responsibility and push it to the front of your consciousness right here, and now.

If you are to stop yourself from gaining more and more weight, since your bariatric surgery, I implore you to take charge of the situation and that will require what you should have done right from the start.  What I am referring to is that you need to stop thinking that losing weight has to be an event that will be going on forever.  No longer should you think that you have to be on this “I gotta lose weight” mode for the rest of your forever.  Losing weight does not have to be an event that takes place forever.

The problem with weight loss surgery is that you do start losing weight, but that is simply because of calorie deprivation.  You initially eat less because the “mechanical intervention” has torn your insides apart, and you can’t eat.  Since you can’t eat, your body goes into weight loss merely because you are recovering from the surgery.  The point you need to understand is that your weight loss really was not related to anything you actually did…other than submitting to the surgery.  In essence, you really did not earn the weight loss and that, in turn, means you learned nothing about yourself.

Soon after your surgery you start the process of eating more and different types of foods.  The doctor tells you the foods that you can’t eat and then the feelings of deprivation start to play on your mind.  The feelings of deprivation begin to creep in and haunt you.

No carbonated beverages means you now want them more than ever.

No bread means now you want a sandwich.

No drinking out of straws means you want a straw.

After a few months you hear less and less from the surgeon and you decide to drink a Coke because “just a little won’t hurt.”  I have even heard one woman tell me it is okay because she “swished it around in her mouth.”   Then somewhere along the way you even started to use a straw.

Somewhere along the way you got tired of toasting your bread and just started to eat “small” pieces until the day has arrived that you kept chipping away at the rules and ended up sitting in front of your monitor worried about gaining weight after weight loss surgery.  There you sit and here we are! The real question is why did you get here and what are you going to do now?

• Why Did You Get Here?
  I believe that you are gaining your weight back because you were never given the chance to deal with the issues of why you were obese in the first place.  You were mistakenly led to believe that somehow weight loss surgery was going to cure your craving for chocolate and for pizza and chinese food, and all of the other stuff that you love to eat.  Sadly true…but your gastric bypass did not deal with any of the issues that simply went dormant for the last couple of years.  Simply put…you are here STILL dealing with obesity issues not because the weight loss surgery failed, but because you were not prepared to be, and stay thin.
• What Do You Do Now?
  Since you have already had the weight loss surgery you essentially have three choices of what you can do to deal with the issue of gaining weight after your gastric bypass.
  1) Do nothing and hope you can have the procedure done again in a few years.
  2) Maintain your current weight and try really hard to gain anymore.  Maybe if you ignore the reality you will not have to face remedy #1 listed above…….if you are lucky.
  3) Make a positive change for the better and decide right here and now that you can’t change the past, and it is time to design a lasting and positive future.

If you are thinking about what to do and are trying to decide which of the above 3 things, listed above, will be the one you will do….I would click off this page now because you are STILL not ready to make the needed change.  That change is the critical element you need to have, to finally get rid of the weight once and for all.  If you are reading this and are really ready to lose the weight once and for all, then you are in luck because I can help you…help yourself.  I can help you understand why you are obese and why you are still dealing with obesity when you thought it was going to become a non-event.

If you are really ready to make a change I want you to do 3 things that will change your life.

1. Click on this link and review the Medifast Official Site to learn about weight loss you thought was not possible anymore:
2. ORDER NOTHING!! I just wanted you to click on the link and then come back here.
3. Call me, text me or email me because I want to help you help yourself, by understanding the issues that have gotten you here.

No longer are you alone.  No longer do you have to scream in silence and think that obesity is a never-ending story.  If you make the first step, and then the 2nd step, and then the 3rd step I promise you I will be here to answer your plea and assist you to make that change in your life. There is still time to save you from having to face your “friends” while helping you face your demons.  If you do the 3 steps I will be more than THRILLED to hear your story and help you help yourself, which is what should have been done BEFORE the mechanical intervention!

(This article may have sounded harsh, but that was simply to get your attention because your situation should not be ignored any longer. I am really an understanding person that wants to pay it forward. I am not a harsh person, I simply hear all of the silent screaming.)

Keith Quackenbush
KeithQBush@Gmail.com
850-449-0121

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If you are overweight and really want to make a change in your life to become thin and are considering weight loss surgery we want to get your attention for a moment.  You are obese and you not only want to lose weight, you need to lose weight for health reasons.  You are considering the option of weight loss surgery and that is alright, but we really want you to stop and think for more than a moment.  Weight loss surgery may cure obesity in the short term but it may not cure you for the long-term.  In fact, weight loss surgery may create more issues than in the long term than you realize.

Not too long ago I went out to dinner with a friend of mine and he had weight loss surgery about 18 months ago.  Back when the surgery was recent he could only eat a nugget and a french fry with a few sips of water.  Since the time he has had the surgery he lost over 100 pounds and that is great.  It is what I saw next that really caused me to worry about the reality of weight loss surgery.  Not too long ago we were out to eat and I was shocked with the fact that he ate an entire meal.  He had a bit of bread, drank soda with a straw and ate a meal that anyone would be able to eat, surgery or not.

While we were eating he was still basking in the reality that he lost so much weight but he said that the weight loss had slowed down quite a bit.  He said it was normal for the slower loss but what was not normal was how much food he was able to eat.  It was obvious to me that his stomach pouch is expanding again and is getting larger with every meal.  I feel as if he is setting himself up again for weight gain and more obesity issues.

What we have learned over the years is that food is only the end product of obesity and the root cause of obesity is never merely food.  What we mean is that there is always an emotional issue that causes a person to over eat.  For some people there may be binge eating while others may have issues with eating as a relief for some emotional insecurity, such as suffering from lonliness. The superstar trainer Jillian Michaels covers this subject quickly on almost every Biggest Loser episode.  She is always clawing her way past the tears to reveal what causes the personal issue that is behind the obesity that her contestants deal with.  What is revealed so often is that obesity is only the end result of some emotional roller coaster ride.

As you consider the option of weight loss surgery you need to be aware that surgery is merely a business.  As nice as that doctor may seem you are merely a down payment on that new car or summer home.  Weight loss surgery will never be able to force you to put that fork down.  Weight loss surgery will not heal the emotional wounds that caused you to overeat in the first place.  These are the issues that need to be resolved prior to any weight loss diet, meal plan or surgery.

As with any diet or meal plan you need to be committed for weight loss surgery to work.  Do not think that by merely having surgery you will never have to be concerned with your weight again.  The fact is that after the surgery you will have to be very concerned with what you eat and how much you eat.  If you do not cure or deal with the emotional issues before you have the surgery there is a good chance you will be forced to deal with it after the surgery.

It was my hope to get you here before you had bypass surgery.  It was my hope to capture the phrase “what can I eat after a gastric bypass“, in an effort to get your attention before you have the weight loss surgery.

The reason I have done this is because if you can simply use Medifast, as your food, and act like you have had surgery, the results can be astounding without the surgery.  Not only is Medifast medically approved, it is safer than having a gastric bypass and the way you eat on Medifast is very, very similar to someone that is trying to eat after they have had a gastric bypass.

After a person has had a gastric bypass they ultimately are encouraged to eat nutritious food, in smaller quantities every few hours. Let’s compare how a person eats after having a gastric bypass and compare it to a person simply using Medifast.

First three days

Weight loss surgery:
Drink only clear liquids. broth, apple juice, grape juice, water, jello and Popsicles. Sip very
slowly, as your stomach is now very small, since a portion of it has been cut out and removed. If you drink too quickly, it could cause vomiting.

Medifast: 
Eat 5 Medifast meals each day.  Eat one Lean and Green Meal each day. (chicken or pork or fish or beef with a large choice of vegetables)  During the first three days there may be mild headaches.  No vomiting and you still have your stomach.

After first three days

Weight loss surgery:
Start eating pureed foods when cleared by your particular surgeon to do so.  Pureed means the texture is similar to baby food.

Medifast:
Eat 5 Medifast meals each day.  Eat one Lean and Green Meal each day. (chicken or pork or fish or beef with a large choice of vegetables)  Many Medifast users experience increased energy, no need to eat baby food.

Two Weeks After A Gastric Bypass

Weight loss surgery:
Drink fluids only between meals.  A person’s stomach is no longer big enough to hold both food and liquids at one time. If a person were to drink during meals after GBP they could potentially become malnourished due to not getting enough food in, or they could stretch out their pouch, causing weight gain in the future.

Weight loss surgery:
Eat a low-sugar, low-fat, high-protein diet.  A high-protein diet is important because it helps a person who is losing significant amounts of weight retain muscle mass. Protein is crucial in wound healing, and makes a person feel full faster. Foods high in protein include meat, chicken, fish, eggs, beans, protein shakes and protein bars. Protein powder can be found in grocery stores, nutrition specialty shops and pharmacies, and can be added to most foods and drinks to increase protein content. (Just eat Medifast food and you should be fine)

Medifast:
Eat 5 Medifast meals each day.  Eat one Lean and Green Meal each day. Eat your food as if you had weight loss surgery but skip the fear of losing massive amounts of muscle mass as feared in weight loss surgery.  Medifast minimizes muscle mass loss because of the nutrition included in the foods and The Lean and Green Meal.

When a person asks “what can I eat after a gastric bypass” …what would be even better is that you skip the weight loss surgery and just try Medifast.

If you can stay on Medifast and allow the weight loss program a chance to work, you may see the program can help you lose weight.  By trying Medifast you can lose the weight and keep your stomach.  After you lose your weight with Medifast you will be still be able to eat bread. (With a gastric bypass bread is not too good) Also, while doing Medifast you can still drink out of a straw, you need to give up straws after a gastric bypass.  (Did your doctor tell you that?)

Let’s look at a general disclaimer for a gastric bypass and for ordering Medifast:

Weight loss surgery:
It is important to understand that gastric bypass is not always successful and may cause unwanted complications for the patient’s health and life. Complications occur when surgeons commit mistakes or when the patient’s body is making the unwanted complications.

Although hemorrhage is a minor complication, it can also become a major problem. Hemorrhage can cause internal infection or can cause death to the patient.

After the surgery, the urine tract is altered, and the use of a tube or catheter is necessary to drain the bladder. In rare occasions, this can lead to infections, specifically urinary tract infection. It’s a minor complication that can be treated by medication. Most cases of infection in bypass surgery occur when the staples are not placed properly and pulled before healing. This can cause infections inside the body and might trigger other diseases.

A patient can also acquire pneumonia after having gastric bypass.

After the surgery, due to the body’s rapid weight loss, the calorie intake of the patient is lesser than the patient’s body is needing, thus the inactivation of 40% of hair follicles occur causing hair loss to the patient. (You can lose a lot of hair)

Almost 20% of the patients undergo another bypass to correct abdominal hernia.  Another 1/3 of the patients develop gallstones while losing weight.

After the surgery, the patient may also suffer from nausea and vomiting.  Nausea often occurs when the patients starts eating after the bypass.

Iron deficiency is another complication that occurs 30% or more of the time. Patients with iron deficiency may even develop anemia after the bypass.

(The most commonly cited mortality rate for bariatric surgical operations, across the United States, is 0.5%. That looks pretty good, till you do the math and realize that means about 1 out of 200 patients will experience a fatal result.)

Medifast:
“Results will vary.  Typical results on the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan are up to 2 – 5 pounds per week.”

What Can I Eat After a Gastric Bypass?  You could eat Medifast and if you have not had weight loss surgery you should at least check it out before surgery because who wants to give up using straws?

I work in retail and I am not a doctor with a whole bunch of letters after my name, so many will discount my opinion.  If I could have letters after my name it would be as follows:

Keith Q.
M.I.A.N.B.

(Medifast Is A No Brainer)

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There is no doubt that my wife and I love one another.  We do everything together and sadly to say….we got really fat together.  It just sort of happened over the years and those years turned into about a decade and that decade has produced a couple so obese that we almost had weight loss susrgery done on each of us.  We went to the seminars and even applied for the insurance to get the process rolling.  Looking back on it all, we are both very happy that we did not have the proceedure done, as we were able to lose our weight the old fashioned way.  We burned it…but we did it using Medifast and really didn’t do much burning as the weight really just fell off with the mild yet continuous fat burning ability Medifast is known so well for having.

Our insurance company turned us down and the doctor sublimley encouraged us to gain weight, so we could qualify for the insurance.   As time went on I became more dismayed by the large number of people who have had weight loss surgery, such as gastric bypass, or even lap band surgery. What amazed me the most about this group of people is not how much weight they were able to lose after the weight loss surgery, but the way they damaged their bodies once they became “used to” their new bodies. What is meant by this is that in order to have this surgery you must legally acknowledge that you understand that you have to alter your eating habits considerably. What we noticed over time with friends and family was that after the majority of many weight loss surgery recipients lost 100 pounds or so, they started to do things they should not have been doing and gained alot of weight back.  This silent weight loss surgery fact startled me tremendously.

In an effort to grasp the entire weight loss surgery thing I have interviewed not only patients and friends, but also met with surgeons who performed the operation dozens of times. To generalize the gastric bypass procedure for this discussion, all we need to know is that a large portion of your stomach pouch is surgically removed.  After the surgery the eaten food bypasses part of the small intestine and directly enters the large intestine. The key here is that your stomach pouch is reduced in size and this means they cut it out and throw it away. There is no turning back once the procedure is completed.

After you have the procedure a person starts a regimented liquid diet. As time goes on you start to eat solid foods again but now your stomach is smaller and the theory is that they will eat less because the appetite has been reduced because of the size reduction of the stomach pouch. You eat less and you lose weight and it really does happen and I have seen it happen again and again. I have seen huge people get their life back by losing hundreds of pounds. The sad portion of this saga is what most do not discuss openly.

Weight Loss Disaster or Weight Loss Salvation?

At the onset of weight loss surgery it sounds great that you will only eat 4 ounces of food or less at a sitting. The dream to lose the weight blinds one from the irreversible truth of what happens when you abuse the diet. This abuse comes from eating forbidden foods and consuming food quantities that push the reduced stomach capacity to the edge of safety. There is a defined list of what a person can and cannot eat after they have bypass surgery. One of the things a person should never eat again is a carbonated beverage. The concept of no soda is simple because the stomach pouch is basically elastic and even though it is reduced in size through surgery, it retains its ability to expand and contract. When you drink carbonated liquids your smaller stomach pouch can expand too much and this can cause the staples to burst. One person interviewed even argued that by swirling the beverage in his mouth the risk is reduced because the carbonation dissipates. If you decide to have this procedure, do not plan on ever drinking soda again.

I could write a two inch thick thesis of what has already been said about weight loss surgery and that is not the point I desire to get across to you here and now. What I want you to realize is that you will have to give up many of the foods you love because if you do not, your health is at risk. This is sort of a paradox because if you remain obese your healthis also in doubt. So you must really research and educate yourself. One doctor eased the concerns of a patient in an auditorium by spouting the statistics of only one in a few hundred that died from the procedure. My only thought was what about that one person? Would that person now think their death was an acceptable risk? What about my friend who still eats popcorn and downs soda?  He is assuming the risk is acceptable but I wonder how his life will play out.

The risks are real and there are people at the end of all those statistics. Be careful when you research the options because it is a billion dollar business and you are simply the customer. There is a product to be sold and you are nothing more than a future statistic. Be careful. Shop around. Educate yourself. Become familiar with the facts. Above all do what is best for you based on how you will be able to stick to the diet mandated by a gastric bypass. Be careful because how you react to the diet changes will determine where you fall on the chart of statistics.  Be really careful about deciding to have weight loss surgery because there really is no going back once it is done.

In closing I just want to take a moment to introduce you to a weight loss tool that stopped my wife and I from having weight loss surgery.  We were all set to have it done and then found out our health insurance would not pay for it, so we could not afford to have it done.  We then ventured into using Medifast and the interesting thing is that using Medifast helped us lose almost 200 pounds (combined) and the way you eat on Medifast is very similar to the way you lose wight from weight loss surgery.  We ate smaller portions using Medifast, such as a person would do after having weight loss surgery.  I am so glad we found Medifast because we were able to lose alot of weight we were able to keep our stomachs!   What a deal!

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