Introduction to behavioral change
Your motivational decisiveness
Bariatric surgery is just the start of your weight-loss journey. In order to maintain weight loss, you have to stick to long-term behavioral changes. This is the challenging part of your postoperative follow-up, and you may have difficulties at the beginning. However, you will find out that you do not want to go back to your unhealthy lifestyle once you start to lose weight and enjoy your new habits.
As a part of the after-surgery follow-up period, you should strictly adhere to the following:
- An active and healthy lifestyle,
- Making appropriate food choices and adopting the recommended eating habits,
- Following the food, vitamin & mineral supplements requirements recommended by your health team,
- Including physical activities and exercises in your daily routine,
- Following the progress with your physician in line with the given instructions.