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After bariatric surgery and its short recovery stage, most patients begin to feel a big difference after only a couple of weeks. The key to your success is not just the surgery itself, for that’s only the commencement of your journey. Your success depends on your ability provide your body all the nutrients it needs while you shack your excess weight and then maintain good health when you reach your goal weight.

For the first three months you’ll have a huge change in diet. For a pair of days you’ll be on a liquid diet and after that, pureed foods for a few weeks. Subsequently soft foods for a couple of months before you progress to eating regular food. This is to assist the healing process and get your system used to moving food through your smaller stomach.

When you begin eating solid foods again you may have to try one new food at a time. The food that you ate previous to surgery might react badly with your new digestive system. Even though you’ll probably be able to eat anything eventually, some foods may make you nauseous or cause stomach pain and vomiting. The most common culprits are starches like pasta and bread, raw vegetables, soda otherwise other carbonated beverages and dry or sticky foods. Talk to your nutritionist about some of these types of foods that you would like to include in your diet before you try them.