Happy New Year! I just wanted to follow-up with the second part of my "Solutions for Maladaptive Eating" post from last week. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about bariatric weight loss or after weight loss surgery maintenance.
Solutions:
How to prevent maladaptive eating?
The lap band is a tool. It will help adapt to new methods of eating but you must make changes and practice these skills at every meal:
Follow all of rules no matter how inconvenient. Practicing positive behaviors and changing the old behaviors is the only way to have success with weight loss surgery regardless at which Indiana hospitals the procedure performed.
Solutions:
How to prevent maladaptive eating?
- Have a routine!
- “Don’t buy it” and “Don’t bring it in the house.”
- Healthy eating is for the entire family– variety or foods from all food groups(long term) and potion control, avoiding deep fried foods, eliminating or changing the type of foods you eat.
- Don’t eat fast – best way to prevent over stuffing the pouch.
- Chew!
The lap band is a tool. It will help adapt to new methods of eating but you must make changes and practice these skills at every meal:
- Create a routine
- Slow down and chew.
- Portion control – limit to 1 to 1 ½ cups per meal
- Always have a food source with fiber at every meal. e.g. vegetables at lunch and dinner and fruit at breakfast.
- Understanding that a little hunger is okay. If you are “starving,” ask yourself if you are following all of the rules?! Develop a new relationship with food.
Follow all of rules no matter how inconvenient. Practicing positive behaviors and changing the old behaviors is the only way to have success with weight loss surgery regardless at which Indiana hospitals the procedure performed.
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