What to read, roughly in the order you will need it. Everything here is a link to a fuller page.
Your surgical team's instructions come first, always. Where they say something different from anything here, follow them.
Before
- Who surgery is for
- Bariatric surgery explained
- Endoscopic options: balloon and endoscopic sleeve
- Non-surgical medical weight management
- Preparing for surgery
- Medications and surgery
- GLP-1 medications and anesthesia
The first weeks
- The staged diet after surgery
- Protein and fluid after surgery
- Nausea, constipation, gas and hair shedding
- Dumping syndrome
- Returning to activity
For good
- Supplements for life
- Long-term follow-up and labs
- Alcohol after weight-loss surgery
- Pregnancy after bariatric surgery
- Weight recurrence
Setting Loopa up for it
- Medication protocols. The bariatric track lives here.
- Clinician protocols and coach support. When your care team's plan replaces the published one.
- Preparing for a prescriber appointment
- Start here: tracking food
- DEXA scans and body composition
Where this comes from
Every health claim in these pages cites a published guideline or a peer-reviewed source, listed at loopahealth.app/sources, and Loopa's medical-information policy explains how they are chosen. Loopa does not give medical advice.
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