Bariatric surgery is meant to help you keep off excess body weight for life. Maintaining weight-loss means a dedicated lifestyle – developing new attitudes toward food, exercise, and even in how you relate to other people.
Bariatric surgery is not an immediate fix. It’s a positive, ongoing process of change. Following surgery, your body will give you signals to stop eating before you take in extra calories that would return your excess body weight. It’s what you do with these signals that count. When you develop lasting positive habits, you can achieve lasting weight-loss without dangerous weight-loss/weight-gain cycles. At least two-thirds of patients who have gastric bypass surgery are able to keep off at least 50 percent of their excess weight for 10 years or longer.
To help you maintain excess weight-loss, the SSM Weight-Loss Institute offers you ongoing support. You are encouraged to attend the support groups with other patients, where you can share experiences, insights, and concerns. The goal is to adopt lifestyle changes, lose fat, gain muscle, and keep off the weight for good. View the Weight-Loss Institute’s support group meeting schedule.
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