Thirteen routes, not one
Exploring surgery, surgery booked, five procedures and a revision, three non-surgical routes, long-term maintenance and weight coming back. Choosing one tells you what it includes first.
Bariatric support, sourced line by line
Thirteen routes through weight-loss surgery and medical weight management, each carrying the staged diet, supplement schedule and lab reminders published for it. Every figure quotes the guideline it came from. Your care team’s own plan sits on top of it, and wins.
The route you are actually on
A sleeve is not a bypass, and neither is a programme.
Pick your route and Loopa brings what belongs to it. The screens are not the same for everyone, because the guidance is not the same for everyone. Where a route carries no staged diet or lab calendar, it says so instead of showing you an empty one.
The staged return to food
Clear liquids, protein liquids, pureed, soft and regular, with the day ranges the guideline gives and what each stage is for. Your team’s dates replace the reference ones the moment they send them.
Supplements by nutrient, never by brand
Thirteen lines after a sleeve or a bypass, each with the published range, why it is there and a Source link. No brand names anywhere in it, by design. What matters is what is in the bottle.
Reminders that know what clashes
Set the times you take each one and Loopa schedules around the pairs the guideline says to separate, and tells you when two of your own reminders collide.
A symptom journal that is yours
Log what you felt, how strongly, and the food if there was one. It is a record for your appointments, not a diagnosis. Nothing here reads your log and decides something is wrong.
Your care team can send theirs
A surgeon or dietitian can send their protocol straight in. You see exactly what it changes before anything changes, and theirs wins where they set it.
Where the numbers come from
Every line names its source.
The staged progression follows the 2013 clinical practice guidelines for the bariatric surgery patient (Mechanick JI et al., Obesity, 2013). The supplement schedule follows the ASMBS integrated health nutritional guidelines, 2016 update (Parrott J et al., Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2017). Tap Source on any line to read what it is drawn from.
What it will not do
It does not decide anything about your care.
Loopa shows you what the published guidelines say. It does not rank the procedures, work out whether you are a candidate, or set a dose. It never reads your log and concludes something is wrong with you. Those are your care team’s, and the app is built so it cannot drift into them.
No recommendation, ever
Nothing scores you against a threshold or answers “am I a candidate”. The indications are published guidance, quoted, with your care team named as the people who decide.
Lab reminders, not lab results
A calendar of when the guideline says to have bloods done and what to ask for. It carries no reference ranges, because a range is an interpretation.
Adults only, and opt-in
Loopa is 18 and over, and nothing here starts until you have read what the feature will and will not do and chosen a route yourself.
The long read, free
Our guide to life after weight-loss surgery covers the mechanism in depth, with every claim sourced. No account needed.
Common questions
Does Loopa tell me which procedure to have?
No, and it is built so that it cannot. Nothing in it ranks the procedures, scores you against a threshold or answers whether you are a candidate. What it carries is the published guidance, quoted, with the source one tap away, and a standing line naming your care team as the people who decide. It never sets a dose either.
Which routes does it cover?
Thirteen. Exploring surgery and surgery scheduled; sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, one-anastomosis gastric bypass, duodenal switch or SADI-S, adjustable gastric band and revision; the non-surgical routes (medical weight management, weight-management medication and endoscopic procedures); plus long-term maintenance and weight coming back. Choosing one tells you what it includes before you commit.
What if I have not had an operation?
You get the track built for that, and Loopa says plainly what it does not carry. The staged return to food, the bariatric supplement schedule and the follow-up lab calendar are written for people who have had a procedure, so a non-surgical track shows a short note explaining that rather than three empty screens. What it does carry is activity, the symptom journal, foods that sit well, your weight trend and the education track.
Where do the numbers come from?
Published clinical guidance, quoted rather than paraphrased, with a Source link on the line it supports. The staged progression back to food follows the 2013 clinical practice guidelines for the bariatric surgery patient (Mechanick JI et al., Obesity, 2013), and the supplement schedule follows the ASMBS integrated health nutritional guidelines, 2016 update (Parrott J et al., Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2017). Anything Loopa could not verify to a source is not in the app.
Can my surgeon or dietitian send me their own plan?
Yes. Your care team can send a protocol straight into Loopa, and nothing takes effect until you have opened it and seen exactly what it changes. Their stages, supplement lines and lab dates replace the published ones where they set them and leave the rest alone. They can also stop a supplement, which shows on your schedule as stopped by them, with their reason, and Loopa will not remind you about it.
Is it free?
The education track, the procedure guidance and the sources are free to read. Deciding whether this is for you should not cost anything. Setting up a track and everything that follows from it is part of Loopa Premium. It is for adults; Loopa is 18 and over.