Over the past 10 years of being a full time personal trainer and gym owner I have talked to 100’s of people that have undergone gastric bypass. In those conversations there are a few ‘requests’ that come up more often than not. Two goals that people want after gastric sleeve surgery are: I want to weight XXX lbs I want to…
Yes. As a matter of fact, building muscle after gastric bypass should be one of the most important goals in your exercise plan. This is especially true if you are in the first year after surgery. With gastric bypass or any weight loss surgery plan you will lose a lot of weight. The thing is part of that weight loss…
Start taking your vitamins. Post-op you won’t have much stomach room. What that means is that being able to consume enough vegetables to get enough vitamins will not be easy. Taking a multivitamin daily will be the only way you can do that. If this isn’t something you do now consistently it will be difficult to start after. So start…
Help slow or maintain your muscle mass loss within the first year post opYou will lose muscle mass with all weight loss programs, weight loss surgery is no different except for the speed at which you lose weight. And it’s the quickness of the weight loss that has your body also shedding a large percentage of muscle mass. Yet if…
This question gets asked a lot “Is gastric bypass cheating?”. I want to give you my input on this question. No. I don’t even understand what people mean when they make this statement. What are you cheating? Who are you cheating? When you cheat you’re going against the rules, so what are the rules for weight loss? I’ve been in…
The success syndrome isn’t something that just happens to people that have gone through bariatric surgery. It’s something that happens to most everyone that’s trying to make healthy life changes. So what is the success syndrome? The success syndrome is when you allow yourself to cheat because you’ve been so good for so long. It’s not from a planned cheat…