Life after Adjustable Gastric Band Surgery is all about making changes and enjoying your new life. Your LAP-BAND or Realize Band are the tools to help make the changes easier, but you will still require accurate information and support from people who care about you and want to see you succeed.
In this section we have gathered tips, information and advice from people who truly understand what you are facing on your weight loss journey.
Gastric Band Adjustment
The adjustable gastric band allows Dr. Bagnato to fine tune your weight loss by adjusting the tightness of the band around the top of your stomach. A gastric band adjustment or “fill” is a simple procedure and no cause for concern. This section guides you through a typical band adjustment.
Adjusting to Your New Lifestyle
In this section we give you a collection of simple tips to help you get started with weight loss and develop some habits to integrate healthy behaviors into your lifestyle.
Tips for Gastric Band Success
What are the habits of highly successful gastric band patients? Adopt these 6 simple rules for long term success.
Dining Out after Bariatric Surgery
Does your gastric band mean an end to social dining? With just a few adjustments you can continue to enjoy the social side of dining out without compromising your weight loss.
Alcohol after Bariatric Surgery
As with many things following gastric band surgery, the role alcohol plays in your life may have to change. Understanding the pros and cons of alcohol as it relates to the changes in your body is the focus of this section.
Plastic Surgery after Weight Loss
The substantial weight loss that often follows bariatric surgery may leave you with skin folds that you wish to have removed. In this section we discuss your options for plastic surgery after weight loss surgery.
Bariatric Surgery Support Groups
As you may have gathered, finding the right kind of support after weight loss surgery is key to your long term success. How do you find people to support you with your weight loss journey? This section will provide you with a few ideas.
Dealing with Hunger after Surgery
Your adjustable gastric band is a valuable tool to help you control your eating and lose weight. But physical hunger is only one part of what makes you want to eat and learning strategies to deal with the mental aspects of hunger will help you differentiate between the need to eat and the desire for food.
Dealing with Stress
Before your weight loss surgery it is likely that eating was one of the methods you used to deal with stress. Now that eating is no longer an option, how do you deal with life’s ups and downs in a more constructive way?