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Pre-bariatric diet: the importance of food re-education for positive results

Pre-bariatric diet: the importance of food re-education for positive results

The first choice that a patient needs to make when he or she wants to lose weight is a food routine of better nutritional quality. To be healthy, you need to find a nutritionist, a physical educator, a psychologist, and an endocrinologist. This team is called a multidisciplinary team.

Even so, some patients end up looking for other methods to get to weight loss. Two widely used examples are:

  • Gastric balloon, gastric botox and endoscopic plastic (also called bariatric endoscopy)
  • Bariatric surgery

People who failed to seek permanent weight loss may benefit from these techniques, but just trading will not bring long-term success.

Why do I need a diet before bariatric surgery?

Surgery will disrupt the volume of food intake. However, on average, after 15-18 months of surgery, the patient returned to a food intake almost the same as before surgery.

The surgery will also release some hormones called anorectics (which remove hunger), causing you do not want to feed as before (but, on average, after 18 months of surgery, this hormone release returns almost to normal).

For these two reasons cited above, weight loss is facilitated by up to 15 months of surgery .

As all relationships cools (joking aside, but everyone needs to know that it ends, and if there was no change in eating behavior during this time, it is likely that the patient will regain weight), who did bariatric surgery need to have a good relationship with your nutritionist and this should be eternal.

Nutritional deficiency

We know many cases and we know that many patients have preoperative malnutrition. When I say preoperative malnutrition, I mean, for example, vitamin D deficiency, in which 50-70% of people present before they operate.

40-50% of people have iron deficiency before they operate. From 30 to 36%, they lack zinc, 30% lack thiamine and on average 40% have vitamin B12 deficiency. Calcium is also below the limit in 20% of cases. This is because the obese does not necessarily eat well, he eats a lot of calories, which we also call empty calories.

Important tips for food re-education

In order to eat less calories, you need to have your food distribution of correct nutrients. You need a dietitian nutritionist, he can understand how and why you eat in this way and will adjust how many meals you need to make, what foods at each meal will be most comforting in you to eat, and what portion of each food you eat

With this, you will have a release of the hormones of satiety, allowing you to be able to follow a lower calorie diet without suffering from hunger. When we are satisfied, the food cravings are smaller and you can think better before making the food choices, consequently you will lose weight.

The second choice is sports, you are already ingesting less caloric amount and will now increase the expenditure. A simple walk may be enough to keep the daily caloric balance well diminished and thus the weight loss will be faster.

When the food intake is not very reduced and the sportsmanship is high, the patient slims little. In such cases, there is a need for weight loss aid and we may need the use of drugs (some to help control the volume of food, others to hinder the absorption of nutrients), and thus the treatment for weight loss will be longer lasting and probably more efficient.

Risks of not following the pre-bariatric diet

But worse than getting fat, it is when the patient presents nutritional deficiencies. We know that when we eat less food and decrease the absorption of nutrients, deficiencies occur. The most known are:

  • Anemia
  • Iron deficiency
  • Wernick syndrome due to B12 deficiency
  • Osteoporosis due to calcium and magnesium deficiency
  • Muscle flaccidity due to protein deficiency


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