How coaching makes your surgery more successful
Since my weight loss surgery in 2017, I have lost eight stones (nearly 50 kg).
I have had extensive plastic surgery, called abdominoplasty surgery, that was more than just a tummy tuck! It has been a challenging journey, and today I still work through my meal plans and keep a check on my weight and health.
I specialise in helping with your weight loss surgery before, during and after the procedure, focusing on nutrition to nourish and enrich your body to gain health and vitality.
I have been working for nearly three years, coaching and supporting gastric sleeve patients to learn how to eat good food as they lose weight and helping those who need to press reset and refocus on getting back on track.
How do you deal with a life-changing operation?
Everyone needs to start with the post-four-week diet, which is standard practice after the procedure. The post-diet plan will probably be the longest time you have ever been on a controlled diet. Stick with it, as this is important for the healing process.
If everything goes to plan and you have not had any issues with the healing and feel quite well, then now is the time to start introducing solids. You probably lost significant weight on the post-diet plan. This weight loss is a great incentive for you; let's hold this in your heart.
The next stage time is essential as this is when you start introducing solid foods again. You need to know and remember that your stomach is no longer the size of an average healthy person.
The final stage is maintenance. To maintain a well-functioning body, you still need to eat enough vitamins and minerals for an adult. With your small stomach, this makes it very hard indeed.
Whatever stage you're at, your new stomach will get full quickly, and you will need to slow down how you eat and ensure your portion sizing is correct.
If you eat poorly, you will feel bad mentally and physically.
I want you to enjoy, dance and smile with your gastric sleeve. To discover the body and soul that you have dreamed about for years.
Working with a coach
Together we can plan nutritious, delicious, and healthy meals with good nutritional value is a significant factor in well-being. Foods that you love to eat.
My coaching is unique because you are unique. We look at what you love to eat, and we work together on a food menu that you can enjoy. You will feel satisfied, but we will ensure that you eat the vitamins and minerals you need to feed your body to benefit entirely from your weight loss surgery.
Learning how to eat correctly can take time, and it should take time, as this is how new strong positive habits are formed and upheld. There will be times when you want to give up. There will be times when you have to eat.
Your little stomach will only you to eat so much food. Nutrition coaching with me will help you develop new habits to help you manage your food intake and get the right foods into your body to be unique inside and out.
You will feel different from week to week. I can help you. I completely understand that food has played an enormous part in your life.
It will sometimes feel like a divorce from food, as you probably loved food more than you thought.
The bottom line
A gastric sleeve is not an answer to weight loss but is one of the most effective weight loss tools you will have, so let's use it properly to coaching success and achieve a healthier new body.
It is now not about counting points or calories.
It is also not about starving yourself.
It is about eating a good range of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
You must no longer start any fad diets.
With my coaching, you will see that these diets you have lived on for years that never worked are fad diets, and no one can stick to them for more than a couple of weeks.
Your body wants and needs a range of delicious foods. But your stomach can only take in small meals.
Coaching with me will enable you to discover foods you love, want and need. Everyone has different tastes and needs. I treat each one of my clients as an individual. You are all different people with different lifestyles and needs. Everything we discuss and plan is confidential with our 1:1 coaching.
I have no regrets about getting weight loss surgery, especially now as I have optimised my health to a level I never thought possible. It hasn't always been an easy journey.
Contact me now. I am here to help you become healthy, happy and ready to take on the world! kristen@mydietsupport.co.uk