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Consume Adequate Protein (Minimum: Women 80 to 100 grams / Men 100 to 120 grams)
Eat and Don’t Drink your calories (Except Protein Shakes)
Stay Hydrated (Minimum of 64 oz of Water)
Cut out Sugar, Sweet N’ Low, Aspartame, and Splenda (Stevia is good or
Eat Your Fruit and Veggies
Consume Small Amounts of Good Fats Frequently
Choose the Right Carbohydrates and Always Eat them Last (Protein then Veggies then Good Carbs if you aren’t 80% Full)
Eat 3 Small High Protein Meals and 2 High Protein Snacks Daily (2 to 4 oz. per meal every 3 to 4 hours)
Eat Slowly, Chew Food Thoroughly and Stop Eating at 80% Full
Take all your Required Bariatric Advantage Vitamins/Minerals Daily

 

Bariatric Advantage Multivitamin (Either 3 Capsules twice daily or 2 Chewable per day)
Bariatric Advantage Calcium Citrates Chewy Bites (1000 mg per day – Take 2 hours before or after any iron containing supplements. Can be divided into 500 mg doses)
Bariatric Advantage Iron (Females 29 mg, Males 18 mg – take 2 hours before or after calcium supplements.
Bariatric Advantage Sublingual B12 (Dissolve 1 tablet under the tongue daily) OR have Bariatric Dr write a prescription that you take once a week.
Bariatric Advantage Vitamin D3 – 5000 units (Take 1 capsule daily)
SPECIAL NOTE: They highly suggest Bariatric Advantage because they not only meet the requirements, but are one of the few companies to test that the product work correctly in your body).
 
He also suggested that I take Krill Oil 1000 mg a day and Juice Plus if I can afford it.
 
1. Bariatric Advantage Vitamins/Minerals & Meal Replacements, KetogenX protein supplements (bars
and crisps) and Nectar Protein Powder
2. Quest Protein Bars available at www.questnutrition.com/bariatricrd
3. Juice Plus® available at http://www.kylefjuiceplus.com/
4. Vital Choice Krill Oil available at www.vitalchoice.com
5. Just Like Sugar™ (healthy sugar substitute) available at http://www.justlikesugarinc.com/

Consume Adequate Protein (Minimum: Women 80 to 100 grams / Men 100 to 120 grams)
Eat and Don’t Drink your calories (Except Protein Shakes)
Stay Hydrated (Minimum of 64 oz of Water)
Cut out Sugar, Sweet N’ Low, Aspartame, and Splenda (Stevia is good or
Eat Your Fruit and Veggies
Consume Small Amounts of Good Fats Frequently
Choose the Right Carbohydrates and Always Eat them Last (Protein then Veggies then Good Carbs if you aren’t 80% Full)
Eat 3 Small High Protein Meals and 2 High Protein Snacks Daily (2 to 4 oz. per meal every 3 to 4 hours)
Eat Slowly, Chew Food Thoroughly and Stop Eating at 80% Full
Take all your Required Bariatric Advantage Vitamins/Minerals Daily

 

Bariatric Advantage Multivitamin (Either 3 Capsules twice daily or 2 Chewable per day)
Bariatric Advantage Calcium Citrates Chewy Bites (1000 mg per day – Take 2 hours before or after any iron containing supplements. Can be divided into 500 mg doses)
Bariatric Advantage Iron (Females 29 mg, Males 18 mg – take 2 hours before or after calcium supplements.
Bariatric Advantage Sublingual B12 (Dissolve 1 tablet under the tongue daily) OR have Bariatric Dr write a prescription that you take once a week.
Bariatric Advantage Vitamin D3 – 5000 units (Take 1 capsule daily)
SPECIAL NOTE: They highly suggest Bariatric Advantage because they not only meet the requirements, but are one of the few companies to test that the product work correctly in your body).
 
He also suggested that I take Krill Oil 1000 mg a day and Juice Plus if I can afford it.
 
1. Bariatric Advantage Vitamins/Minerals & Meal Replacements, KetogenX protein supplements (bars
and crisps) and Nectar Protein Powder
2. Quest Protein Bars available at www.questnutrition.com/bariatricrd
3. Juice Plus® available at http://www.kylefjuiceplus.com/
4. Vital Choice Krill Oil available at www.vitalchoice.com
5. Just Like Sugar™ (healthy sugar substitute) available at http://www.justlikesugarinc.com/

Consume Adequate Protein (Minimum: Women 80 to 100 grams / Men 100 to 120 grams)
Eat and Don’t Drink your calories (Except Protein Shakes)
Stay Hydrated (Minimum of 64 oz of Water)
Cut out Sugar, Sweet N’ Low, Aspartame, and Splenda (Stevia is good or
Eat Your Fruit and Veggies
Consume Small Amounts of Good Fats Frequently
Choose the Right Carbohydrates and Always Eat them Last (Protein then Veggies then Good Carbs if you aren’t 80% Full)
Eat 3 Small High Protein Meals and 2 High Protein Snacks Daily (2 to 4 oz. per meal every 3 to 4 hours)
Eat Slowly, Chew Food Thoroughly and Stop Eating at 80% Full
Take all your Required Bariatric Advantage Vitamins/Minerals Daily

 

Bariatric Advantage Multivitamin (Either 3 Capsules twice daily or 2 Chewable per day)
Bariatric Advantage Calcium Citrates Chewy Bites (1000 mg per day – Take 2 hours before or after any iron containing supplements. Can be divided into 500 mg doses)
Bariatric Advantage Iron (Females 29 mg, Males 18 mg – take 2 hours before or after calcium supplements.
Bariatric Advantage Sublingual B12 (Dissolve 1 tablet under the tongue daily) OR have Bariatric Dr write a prescription that you take once a week.
Bariatric Advantage Vitamin D3 – 5000 units (Take 1 capsule daily)
SPECIAL NOTE: They highly suggest Bariatric Advantage because they not only meet the requirements, but are one of the few companies to test that the product work correctly in your body).
 
He also suggested that I take Krill Oil 1000 mg a day and Juice Plus if I can afford it.
 
1. Bariatric Advantage Vitamins/Minerals & Meal Replacements, KetogenX protein supplements (bars
and crisps) and Nectar Protein Powder
2. Quest Protein Bars available at www.questnutrition.com/bariatricrd
3. Juice Plus® available at http://www.kylefjuiceplus.com/
4. Vital Choice Krill Oil available at www.vitalchoice.com
5. Just Like Sugar™ (healthy sugar substitute) available at http://www.justlikesugarinc.com/

To the weight loss surgery patient slider foods are the bane of good intentions and ignorance often causing dumping syndrome, weight loss plateaus, and eventually weight gain. Slider foods, to weight loss surgery patients, are soft simple processed carbohydrates of little or no nutritional value that slide right through the surgical stomach pouch without providing nutrition or satiation. The most innocent of slider foods are saltine crackers, often eaten with warm tea or other beverages, to soothe the stomach in illness or while recovering from surgery.
 
Understanding Slider Foods
The most commonly consumed slider foods include pretzels, crackers (saltines, graham, Ritz, etc.) filled cracker snacks such as Ritz Bits, popcorn, cheese snacks (Cheetos) or cheese crackers, tortilla chips with salsa, potato chips, sugar-free cookies, cakes, and candy. You will notice these slider foods are often salty and cause dry mouth so they must be ingested with liquid to be palatable. This is how they become slider foods. They are also, most often, void of nutritional value.
 
For weight loss surgery patients the process of digestion is different than those who have not undergone gastric surgery. When slider foods are consumed they go into the stomach pouch and exit directly into the jejunum where the simple carbohydrate slurry is quickly absorbed and stored by the body. There is little thermic effect in the digestion of simple carbohydrates like there is in the digestion of protein so little metabolic energy is expended. In most cases patients in the phase of weight loss who eat slider foods will experience a weight loss plateau and possibly the setback of weight gain. And sadly, they will begin to believe their surgical stomach pouch is not functioning properly because they never feel fullness or restriction like they experience when eating protein.
 
The very nature of the surgical gastric pouch is to cause feelings of tightness or restriction when one has eaten enough food. However, when soft simple carbohydrates are eaten this tightness or restriction does not result and one can continue to eat, unmeasured, copious amounts of non-nutritional food without ever feeling uncomfortable.
 
Many patients turn to slider foods for this very reason. They do not like the discomfort that results when the pouch is full from eating a measured portion of lean animal or dairy protein without liquids. Yet it is this very restriction that is the desired result of the surgery. The discomfort is intended to signal the cessation of eating. Remembering the "Protein First" rule is crucial to weight management with bariatric surgery.
 
Gastric bypass, gastric banding (lap-band) and gastric sleeve patients are instructed to follow a high protein diet to facilitate healing and promote weight loss. Bariatric centers advise what is commonly known among weight loss surgery patients as the "Four Rules" the most important of which is "Protein First." That means of all nutrients (protein, veggies, complex carbohydrates, then fat and alcohol) the patient is required to eat protein first.
Protein is not always the most comfortable food choice for weight loss surgery patients who feel restriction after eating a very small amount of food. However, for the surgical tool to work correctly a diet rich in protein and low in simple carbohydrate slider foods must be observed. The high protein diet must be followed even after healthy body weight has been achieved in order to maintain a healthy weight and avoid weight regain.