About Weight Loss Surgery

Follow Up Care

The goal for weight loss surgery is to live a better, healthier life. Surgery is only used as a tool, however your ultimate success depends on how committed you are to following the recommended dietary, exercise and lifestyle changes that go along with it. After surgery, follow up care is essential for long term success. Diet modifications and exercise programs have to be followed to help your body mend from the surgery and also in some cases to lose your desired weight and keep it off. Basically, you MUST change your lifestyle.

Exercise There are several factors dependant on establishing how much weight a patient will lose after a surgerical procedure, these include;

The patient's age.
His or her weight before surgery.
The patient's health.
The type of surgical procedure that is being performed.
The patient's ability to exercise.
Whether the patient maintains the required dietary guidelines and follow up care.
The patient's commitment and motivation.

Following Bariatric weight loss surgery, many patients will lose weight rapidly for up to twenty four months. Patients may lose thirty to fifty percent of their excess weight in the first six months and even up to seventy-seven percent by one year.

Weight related health problems such as back pain, sleep apnea, high blood pressure; diabetes and depression can be improved and even sometimes resolved after having Bariatric weight loss surgery. People with type 2 diabetes have less overall weight loss but have seen a significant change in their diabetic condition having little or no need for continuing medication.