A registered dietitian manages both your nutritional and education needs before and after surgery, to make sure you have the knowledge you need to optimize your weight loss and avoid discomfort. Individual and group sessions with the dietitian are available. The dietitian can answer pre-op questions about food and nutrition to help patients prepare for surgery and their diet after surgery. Post-operatively, the dietitian instructs the patients on appropriate nutrition at every stage of the way, from immediate post-op to years after surgery. The dietitian helps the patients to obtain optimum nutrition with a limited amount of food.

Just before being discharged from the hospital, a nutritional assessment and counseling session by a registered dietitian occurs and is continued at two-week intervals as the patient’s diet is advanced. Nutrition counseling is available to patients at any point toward reaching their goal to becoming healthy.