33 St George Obesity Surgery Unit | Bariatric Book | Weight Maintenance Surgery provides you with a very powerful tool and is responsible for a significant part of your weight loss. However, studies have shown that you need to work on maintaining your weight loss through: • adapting a healthy lifestyle, • eating well, • exercising, and • returning to see your team for ongoing follow up. Your success post surgery will depend on your body’s response to the procedure (everyone is different), your commitment and lifelong efforts to change your lifestyle. This includes making radical changes to your eating and exercise habits. Having surgery can help facilitate you making these changes. Why is maintaining weight loss a challenge? Once you become overweight, your body’s set point for a preferred weight is set at your maximum weight and it will try to get back there if you are not careful. We need to remember that being overweight or obese is a chronic medical condition, which like any other chronic conditions needs regular and lifelong follow up and management. Your weight is more than a number on the scales. With weight regain we see a resurfacing of weightrelated health conditions e.g. diabetes, fatty liver, aching joints etc. Long-Term Nutrition Management THIS OPERATION IS NOT A QUICK FIX OR A MAGIC WAND
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