A life-saving procedure, bariatric surgery can help you lose weight, lower co-morbidities, enhance quality of life, look better, and feel more confident. However, for long-term success, you’ll need to make a few dietary and lifestyle adjustments and maintain regular contact with your surgeon and bariatric dietician. We are aware that change can be challenging, especially for people who have not had a positive relationship with food for a number of years. You need to have set reasonable goals and a plan in place if you want to meet your post-surgery nutritional requirements.

Through restriction, malabsorption, or a combination of these effects, bariatric surgery changes how your stomach processes food, enabling you to gradually consume fewer calories and servings of food.

Following surgery, your food transitions from liquid to soft, then back to normal. Your portion size and calorie consumption may be quite low just after surgery, but this is completely normal and will change as the months go by. Instead of focusing on the quantity of food, one should pay more attention to its quality. Because the amount is limited, make sure the meal is nutritious. The emphasis should be on encouraging a lifelong transformation and healthy behaviours.

For the first week following surgery, calorie consumption ranges between 400 and 600 Kcal per day. Your calorie intake would range between 600 and 800 kcal/day as your diet progresses from liquid to pureed to soft meals before introducing solid foods, and you should aim for 60 to 80 grams of protein per day. One should continue taking 60-80 grams of protein per day and consume 1200 to 1500 Kcal per day for several months after surgery. It can be challenging to meet protein requirements through natural sources, especially for vegetarians and vegans therefore it’s important to include a high protein, bariatric-friendly supplement.

So that’s all in this blog, if you wanted to know more about how you can manage calorie intake and diet behaviour, consulting with a bariatric surgeon in Indore can help you to manage your after surgery care more accurately.