Look up nutrition information for your favorite fast food restaurant online. You can check out their healthier menu options and give them a try. Most restaurants have foods that will fit into your post-surgery healthful lifestyle.
Is Surgery Right for You?
According to the National Institute of Health, bariatric surgery may be the next step for people who remain severely obese after trying nonsurgical approaches, especially if they have an obesity-related disease. Surgery to induce weight loss is a serious undertaking. Anyone thinking about undergoing this type of operation should understand what it involves. Answers to the following questions may help you decide whether weight-loss surgery is right for you.
Are you:
- Unlikely to lose weight or keep it off over the long term with nonsurgical measures?
- Well informed about the surgical procedure and the effects of treatment?
- Determined to lose weight and improve your health?
- Aware of how your life may change after the operation (adjustment to the side effects of the operation, including the need to chew food well and inability to eat large meals)?
- Aware of the potential risk for serious complications, dietary restrictions, and occasional failures?
- Committed to lifelong healthy eating and physical activity habits, medical follow-up, and vitamin/mineral supplementation?
Remember: There are no guarantees for any method, including surgery, to produce and maintain weight loss. Success is possible only with maximum cooperation and commitment to behavioral change and medical follow-up—and this cooperation and commitment must be carried out for the rest of your life.
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Making the Decision
Being well informed about your weight loss surgery options is the first step in your journey. Based on the recommendations of National Institutes of Health for bariatric surgery, as well as our 18 years of experience, we have developed an effective set of guidelines to determine if you're a candidate for weight loss surgery.
We recognize that any surgery is a serious step and recommend it only if it's right for you. If you do qualify for weight loss surgery, you will benefit from the Barix Clinics program experience and our commitment to comprehensive treatment and care of weight loss surgery patients.
If you are 100 lbs. or more overweight, we may have the answer you've been looking for.
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