ArticleQualitative health research2014
Re-embodying eating: patients' experiences 5 years after bariatric surgery.
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- Individual's Experience of Living With Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- The experience and discharge readiness of patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery: a qualitative study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Living a successful weight loss after severe obesity.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2018Article
- Patients' strategies for eating after gastric bypass surgery: a qualitative study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Article
- Becoming a normal guy: Men making sense of long-term bodily changes following bariatric surgery.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2015Article
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Abstract
Health experts advise and expect patients to eat healthily after bariatric surgery. For patients, difficulties with eating might have been a long-standing, problematic part of life-a part that is not necessarily healed by surgery. Empirical research on patients' experiences of eating practices after bariatric surgery is lacking. Aiming to contribute to the development of clinical practice, we explored meanings attached to eating in the long term and sought descriptions of change and bodily sensations. We interviewed 14 patients at least 5 years after bariatric surgery. The surgical restriction forced changes in the way patients sensed their own body in eating, but the uncertainty related to maintaining weight loss in the long term remained. Meanings attached to eating transcended food as choices situated in a nourishment and health perspective, and were not necessarily changed. Eating was an existential and embodied practice, which remained an ambiguous and sensitive matter after surgery.
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