The gastric sleeve diet begins before the operation and never quite ends. This archive keeps together the articles that belong to the sleeve alone. They cover the smaller stomach and the reflux it tends to bring. They also answer the questions that a bypass patient would answer differently. Guides that apply to both operations live in Life After Bariatric Surgery.

Before surgery, the liver shrinking diet is the two weeks that decide how the operation goes. After it come the liquid diet recipes. Then, when solid food returns, the first gastric sleeve recipes show what a portion looks like. Most patients find those first weeks the hardest, so the recipes stay simple. Because the sleeve holds so little at first, every recipe names its portion.

Later on, the questions change. The five-day pouch reset gets an honest look, with what it can and cannot do. There are also guides to carbonated drinks and to the acid reflux that follows many sleeves. Reflux in particular deserves attention, because it can undo a good result if it goes untreated. Finally, weight gain years after the operation has its own article, with a plan to reverse it.

The gastric sleeve diet is a sequence rather than a list of rules, and the order matters. So each guide here says which stage it belongs to. The Gastric Sleeve Cookbook follows the same path, stage by stage. Its recipes fit the sleeve’s portions from the first week onward, and they use the same stages as these articles. Read them in order, and the archive works as a map.