Suggestions to Help You Adapt to Changing Appearance

As everyone knows, among the biggest changes that gastric sleeve surgeries provide in patients are body measurements, serious changes in weight, changes in clothing style and self-confidence. These are among the changes that every gastric sleeve patient wants very much and patiently waits for the time to come. Every day of our patients, who have never remembered themselves at such low weights before, passes with a different awareness and desire to discover. While this situation is sometimes thought to be a very easy situation for our patients to adapt to, sometimes we may face alienation and non-acceptance of the body. The person is in periods of increased change after surgery,

Am I the person I see reflected in the mirror?
Am I that person in the photos taken before the surgery?
Does being a size 36 really mean that I am thin?
They may start questioning such questions.

Exercises After Gastric Sleeve Gastrectomy

A few small exercises can be tried to avoid such problems after sleeve gastrectomy.

Keeping a detailed weight chart after surgery.
Keeping a regional body measurement record at certain intervals (e.g. every 2 weeks)
Not throwing away preoperative clothes and seeing the difference by wearing these clothes from time to time.
Taking photos with tight clothes at certain intervals after the surgery. To compare them from time to time.
Making peace with the mirror (dividing the body into 4 equal regions and examining one region in front of the mirror for at least 2 minutes each week and recording the feelings in a chart).