Gastric Band Diet : Pre and Post Op Gastric Band Diet

Gastric Band Diets, Gastric Band Diet Plans, Pre and Post-Band Diets can be intriguing to those considering the operation. Checking just what can and can't be eaten and what size portions are allowed, often becomes an obsession. The strict pre-surgery restrictions imposed are followed by post-op liquidised foods, and then leading into the few spoonfuls per meal a patient eats long term. A stark contrast to other methods, which help you re-learn a healthy relationship with food.

Anyone thinking of having gastric band surgery is probably aware that not only do they have to endure the operation, they'll also have to change their eating habits, maybe for life. They will have to religiously follow what's become known to some as the Gastric Band Diet or the Gastric Band Diet Plan. Finding out just how much of a change will be required can often be surprising. And the changes don't only start once you've had the operation. For several weeks before surgery you have to follow a strict diet to ensure the liver is not so enlarged it gets in the surgeon's way.

Even before the op, people find they've lost as much as a stone in weight simply by eating a strict regime of nothing but healthy foods. Remarkably similar, in fact, to the results they would achieve by following many other calorie restricted diets, but of course without the surgery!

After the band is fitted, patients have to live on liquidised foods and soups - for anything up to about six weeks. It's not until your first band 'fill' - when saline is injected into the flexible silicone band via the under-skin access 'port' - that you start the regime, which, with minor adjustments, is how you'll have to eat as long as the band's in place, often for life.

Slowly re-introducing solid foods, you end up with an average meal of no more than about six tablespoons of food. But even then it's not that simple… every mouthful (a piece about the size of the rubber on the end of a pencil) must be chewed extremely thoroughly. Certain foods just aren't easily compatible with a gastric band, including popcorn; oranges, pineapple, soft white bread, and a long list more.

It is often the rather drastic diets and the social implications it makes on peoples lives that prompts them to investigate the alternatives, one of the most popular being the Gastric mind Band® it offers most people all of the benefits of the surgery with none of the associated negatives.

As we identify in our book, the golden eating plan according to gastric band experts is: three meals a day, healthy solid food, eat slowly and stop when full, don't eat between meals, don't drink with meals, all drinks should be zero calories… Which if you did it anyway would probably mean you didn't need the band in the first place! and none too different to what we advocate with GmB therapy. No special diet; just eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full. Gastric Mind Band, read the back cover of the book in detail.

If you are seriously interested in taking control of your weight then maybe you should first investigate an alternative, the Gastric mind Band procedure which has attracted so much media interest around the world. The therapy has become something of a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic, developing into the treatment of choice by members of the public and celebrities alike. The procedure is now the subject of the book, Shirrans' Solution - The Gastric mind Band, published by Author House

Gastric Mind Band clients benefit from the considerable research and development that went into the GmB method - the original and most thorough therapy of its kind. The developers, Martin and Marion Shirran, have now built up over five thousand one on one clinical hours working with people who fly to the clinic from around the world, each determined to achieve their ideal body weight. At the end of the GmB treatment each client leaves the clinic with his or her own set of carefully prepared tools, most are completely unique to the GmB including a very extensive manual, and a set of individually produced CD's of each of the sessions. And don't ever forget there can be no fear of a return to the old yo-yo dieting scenario; this is a permanent solution.

At the Gastric mind Band clinic we are totally committed to client follow-up, and on-going research and development. We are proud that we offer the most thorough answer to those wanting a lifelong solution to their weight problems.

Visit the Patients section of this web site, take a look at the case studies page, check out the reviews from past clients, and if you are still in any doubt why not read the independent report by the Daily Mail Newspaper. A UK based journalist interested in weight loss, Claudia Connell of the Daily Mail travelled to a British run clinic in Southern Spain that had spent two years developing a new weight loss procedure, she wanted to experience it for herself, it was the Gastric mind Band®, a surgery free alternative to weight loss that intrigued her. Two weeks later she wrote a two-page feature detailing her treatment that literally got the world talking, and resulted in clients flying to Spain from around the world.

Martin and Marion Shirran the developers and trade mark owners of the Gastric mind Band procedure have since been featured in just about every newspaper and magazine in the UK, recently travelling to the United States to be interviewed on the two largest US news channels. Their Gastric mind Band has now become something of a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic developing into the treatment of choice by members of the public and celebrities alike.

If after reading the extensive information on the web site you decide to book your GmB treatment, the booking procedure could not be more simple, just email us your chosen dates and once confirmed (normally the same day) the deposit of just €495 can be paid with a credit card or by PayPal via our web site, as can the balance, enabling you to spread the cost.

We are confident in saying that the Gastric mind Band is the original and best!