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Appropriate Diet which should be taken after Lap-Band® surgery


Diet after Lap-Band®


What should be your diet one month prior to Lap-Band® surgery?

What kind of diet has to be avoided before the surgery?

What should be eaten immediately after the Lap-Band® surgery?

What should be the diet for the first 2 months?


One month prior to the surgery, you need to make some changes to your diet. It is so because if you continue on your high calorie diet then it might cause complications in your weight loss surgery. The food that you would be eating would be fat free and it has to be around 1200 calories a day. You should be consuming a lot of water in order to keep your body hydrated. Your Lap-Band® meals should include food like eggs, yoghurt, fruits, cereals, green vegetables etc.




You need to avoid that food that contains a lot of fat and has got high calorific value. There should be high sugar content in your daily food intake. If you are a regular smoker or consume alcohol on a regular basis, they you would have to give up that also. Any kind of intoxicants that you consume before the Lap-Band® surgery can be dangerous for you. Some of the food products that you should definitely avoid are bread, pasta, butter, meat, fried food, high calorie non alcoholic beverages like coffee, soda etc. If you avoid the food substances that are mentioned above, then it would be easier for you to recover from the Lap-Band® surgery.




After when the Lap-Band® surgery is done, you should be taking fruit juice. Don’t go for any solid food products. You will have to be on the liquid diet. For the next 2 months, you can consume liquid food substances like fruit juice, vegetable soup of tomato, cabbage etc, skimmed milk etc. You can try some solid food products like small amount of chicken, skinless fish, eggs, plenty of fresh vegetables etc. The food that you would be eating has to be rich in protein supplements and low diet. The diet should comprise protein intake between 80-100 grams. you need to take nutrition enriched food after surgery. If you are not conscious about the food that you eat after the surgery, then the Lap-Band® that is attached to your stomach would slip and you would have to go for the surgery once again. It is also prescribed that you should abstain from any kind of intoxicants for the rest of your life.




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