Will I Be ‘Mal-Absorbing’ Calories After Weight Loss Surgery?

The ‘gold standard’ modern bariatric procedures – gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric band – are generally very safe and do not lead to significant calorie malabsorption. Weight loss after these procedures is achieved via a combination of restriction and post-operative hormonal changes that lead people to eat less. Some ideas of why people lose…

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Can I Eat Normally After Bariatric Surgery?

This is a common question and, not unsurprisingly, often leads to a degree of anxiety either before or after weight loss surgery. Immediately after surgery we recommend building up slowly from liquids to a soft diet to ‘normal’ solids within 4-6 weeks. In the long term the ‘clinical’ answer is that we want patients to…

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