Diet After Bariatric Surgery | Community Health Network (2024)

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What is the typical diet after bariatric surgery? ›

Consume 900 to 1,000 calories and at least 65 to 75 grams of protein a day. For balanced nutrient intake, your daily servings should include: 3 servings milk and dairy products (nonfat and low-fat) 3 servings meat or meat alternative (lean and low-fat)

After your gastric bypass, high-fat meats like bacon, sausage, bologna, and salami should be avoided entirely. Not only are these types of meat fatty and high in calories, but they can also cause digestive issues due to their rich fat content. Eating high-fat meats can lead to more stomach discomfort and diarrhea.

Week 3 diet

Any low-fat, sugar-free food that you can puree, including lean protein sources and nonfibrous vegetables, are acceptable. It's important to start increasing your protein intake. If you don't like the taste of pureed lean protein sources, continue to drink no-sugar protein shakes or eat eggs daily.

On the DASH diet, you will eat many vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. After bariatric surgery, we recommend patients limit their carb intake, but whole grains are full of good fibers that can help manage blood pressure levels. You should eat about 3 ounces of whole grains daily on the DASH diet.

Avoid rice, bread, raw vegetables, fresh fruits, and meats that aren't easy to chew, such as pork and steak. Ground meats may be easier to tolerate. Eat balanced meals with small portions. In the initial period after surgery, you may only be able to tolerate one to two tablespoons of food at a time.

Don't eat these foods

Don't eat soup with vegetables, noodles, rice, meat, or other chunks of food in it. Don't eat vegetables, bread, whole cereal and grain products, meat, chicken, fish, eggs, meat substitutes (nuts and nut butters, tofu, soy), hard cheese, oils, butter, or margarine.

Afterward, your doctor will introduce solid foods gradually, and months later, you can incorporate a small piece of pizza on your menu.

So, when can you eat pasta after gastric sleeve? The twelfth week marks the start of the last phase toward attaining your weight loss goal and will differ in length among individuals. You will start adding most of the foods into your diet, including all fruits and lean meat, and then… Pasta!

After about eight weeks on the gastric bypass diet, you can gradually return to eating firmer foods. Start with eating three meals a day, with each meal consisting of 1 to 1-1/2 cups of food. It's important to stop eating before you feel completely full.

In the first, you can continue eating any of the foods from Stage 1, plus pureed fruits and vegetables, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, and low-fat dairy products. Beginning on day 11, patients may also consume soft foods, including meatloaf, baked fish, tuna and egg salad, cheese, and canned fruits.

How much weight should I have lost 3 months after gastric bypass? ›

First Milestone – 3 Months: Your gastric bypass weight loss chart will show you at three months, you can expect to lose excess weight of up to 30 to 40 pounds. On average, this much weight loss may be about 25 to 35 percent of your total excess weight.

Beverages to Avoid After Bariatric Surgery

Some drinks may irritate your healing stomach and should be avoided after bariatric surgery, including: Caffeine for at least 3 months after surgery. Carbonated beverages for at least 3 months after surgery. Alcoholic drinks for at least 6 months after surgery.

Bariatric Surgery patients are able to incorporate bananas and other fruits back into their diet at five to six weeks after surgery, as the stomach needs to slowly regain the strength to digest fibrous foods.

You are more likely to have dumping syndrome if you eat a meal heavy in starches or sugars. The sugars can be either fructose or table sugar (sucrose). Insulin levels can increase to high levels, and then lower your blood sugar too much.

A gastric bypass diet follows a staged approach to help you ease back into eating solid foods. How quickly you move from one step to the next depends on how fast your body heals and adjusts to the change in eating patterns. You can usually start eating regular foods about 6 to 8 weeks after surgery.

Stage 1: Bariatric Clear Liquid Diet

This diet is designed to keep you hydrated without stressing out your stomach. At this time, you may be nauseous and fill up quickly. You will need to sip slowly on sugar-free, non-carbonated, caffeine-free clear liquids.

Incorporating a high-protein diet, increasing physical activity, and monitoring calorie intake are all effective ways to restart weight loss after gastric bypass surgery.

Without an adequate amount of proteins in the diet, the body can begin to show signs of a deficit. Increased Hunger: Cravings and poor food choices can be accelerated with irregular eating patterns and skipping meals. Unlike carbohydrates which provide the body with quick energy, proteins take longer to digest.