Your Care Plan

What to Expect?

Bariatric surgery is the first step in your weight loss journey.

Reaching your weight goals and managing your weight in the long term requires a continuous commitment to an improved lifestyle.

Losing weight can be physically and mentally draining and every patient’s journey will be different.

Our practice offers a program designed to help you meet your weight loss goals.

The program covers the preoperative to postoperative needs of patients incorporating ongoing support along with a range of tools and resources.

Our Weight Loss Team

A dedicated team of individuals will make sure that you have the support and assistance you need while you recover from surgery and work towards your weight loss goals.

The qualified and friendly professionals who can help you include:

Your doctors: who will monitor your progress and guide you as you recover and lose weight
A dietician: who will assist you as you adjust to a new, healthy diet by offering advice and preparing meal plans for you
An exercise physiologist: who will help you by developing a training program to stay physically active
A counsellor: who will oversee your mental and emotional health and offer support and guidance as you adapt to the big changes in your life

Enjoy the Life You Always Wanted

Following bariatric surgery, your eating habits, lifestyle, and energy levels may have changed.

To ensure the upkeep of your new figure, it is important for a strict lifelong aftercare plan to be implemented and followed.

Your Treatment Program

Aftercare will either be performed at our practice or be referred to outside practitioners.

We feel it is our responsibility to provide all the aftercare needs of patients undergoing weight loss surgery.

All of our practitioners are well trained and highly experienced in weight loss surgery, and know how to help you get the most out of your band or sleeve.

Ongoing Care Before, During and After Surgery

Patients are provided with:

Preoperative patient screening,
Information about how to achieve their weight loss goals,
Details about the procedure’
What to expect after the surgery,
Open communication between the patient, surgeon and the bariatric support team,
A follow-up schedule to help monitor postoperative progress,
Dietary advice before and after surgery,
A recommended program for exercise,
Psychological counselling, if needed.

Life After Bariatric Surgery

After your surgery, your doctor will provide you with ongoing support and a personalised Care Plan. Your Care Plan includes several important components these are: