Bariatric Dietitian in Kent and online
Sam is Clinical Lead Dietitian for Bariatric Surgery at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, with specialist experience supporting people before and after gastric sleeve, gastric bypass and other bariatric procedures.
Bariatric surgery changes much more than the size of the stomach. It affects how you eat, how much you can manage, how you tolerate different foods and, depending on the procedure, how well some nutrients are absorbed.
A bariatric dietitian helps translate the operation into a safe, practical way of eating before and after surgery. This includes making sure you are meeting protein and nutritional requirements, taking the right vitamin and mineral supplements, understanding dietary progression and identifying problems before they become more significant.
Specialist dietetic follow-up can also help with food tolerance, gastrointestinal symptoms, maintaining muscle during weight loss, nutritional deficiencies and longer-term weight management.
The aim is not simply to tell you what to eat. It is to help you understand how to eat well after bariatric surgery and maintain good nutritional health in the long term.
Preparing for Bariatric Surgery
Good nutritional preparation can make the transition after surgery much easier.
Support before surgery can include:
- improving dietary quality before the procedure
- understanding protein requirements
- preparing for the post-operative dietary stages
- vitamin and mineral considerations
- discussing realistic expectations after surgery
- addressing existing nutritional deficiencies or concerns
The aim is not to create a perfect diet before surgery, but to make sure you understand what will change and are as nutritionally prepared as possible.
Dietetic Support After Gastric Sleeve or Gastric Bypass
Eating, food tolerance and nutritional requirements can all change after bariatric surgery.
Support can include:
- post-operative dietary progression
- meeting protein requirements
- vitamin and mineral supplementation
- food tolerance
- nausea or difficulty managing certain foods
- constipation or altered bowel habits
- maintaining dietary variety
- nutritional blood monitoring
- maintaining muscle during weight loss
- weight-loss plateaus or regain
- longer-term nutritional adequacy
Advice is tailored to the operation you have
Bariatric Follow-Up After Surgery in Turkey or Abroad
Many people return to the UK after gastric sleeve or gastric bypass surgery in Turkey or elsewhere overseas and find that structured nutritional follow-up is limited.
Sam provides independent UK-based bariatric dietetic follow-up for people who have had surgery abroad.
Support can include:
- dietary progression after surgery
- protein intake
- vitamin and mineral supplementation
- nutritional blood monitoring
- food tolerance
- managing common post-operative difficulties
- maintaining muscle during weight loss
- longer-term nutritional follow-up
Structured bariatric follow-up packages are available from £449.
CONTACT ME
Telephone/Whatsapp: +447833735167
E-mail: Samthearsondietitian@gmail.com