Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery. Over 140 Delicious Low-Fat, High-Protein Recipes to Enjoy in the Weeks, Months and Years after Surgery

Im so pleased with this book. Now Im one month out of surgery, and make one of the receipes weekly(which lasts for four days, i.e., four servings per recipe, and the other meals in my day normally consist of protein shakes). The meals are yummy, easy to make, for the most part, and are healthy. Some ingredients are harder to find, but go online to get them, its worth it.

Im a dietitian and I bought this recipe book for one of my gastric bypass patients who wanted a little more variety in her food choices. The book alters the recipes based on what stage diet the person is on and what type of surgery that had. It also pretty practical and contains a lot of foods that you would already have at home or that are very accessable.

I was pleased to see that this book included information for post-op Duodenal Switch patients. So often, this surgery is bypassed (pun intended.) in books. More and more people are choosing the DS, so having recipes that will work with this surgery is a must. Granted, DSers can eat most anything post-op, but it is helpful to see the different stages of eating that some surgeons recommend.

I agree that the ingredient list can be someone expansive and most of us will not have all the spices on hand, but there are some tasty recipes in this book.

This is a great book to help you find nutritious meals and recipes for post-weight loss surgery eating. If youre looking for more information about post WLS, such as support or advice, this book isnt going to help you at all. Its purely about the food.

I am extremely disappointed with this cookbook. I feel mislead, after reading the info about it and the excellent reviews other people wrote.

First of all, the title says over 140 recipes. There are 142 or 143 (I counted last week...cant remember off the top of my head). Call me pessimistic, but that was the first thing I didnt like.

Second, the ingredient list is overwhelming. The things she expects you to have on-hand are hard to find, exotic and expensive ingredients that I dont keep on-hand and dont expect to, to use for only one recipe.

Finally, the foods are gourmet at best. They arent something the average working mom can come home and make for her family. My family wont eat 3/4 of what is in this book. Ive gone through all the recipes several times...Ill probably use 10 at most.

On the plus side, the author takes the time to break down how to prepare the food for each stage you are at in the recovery process. It is printed at the bottom of every page. Some of the instructions seemed like common sense, but it was useful, nonetheless.

I had lap-band surgery 8 months ago. I wish that I had this book just after surgery. There really are good suggestions of how to fit the recipes into your life at each stage after surgery (liquids, mush food, solids, etc.). The one thing that I didnt like is that her timeline of when to switch from liquids to mush foods, etc. was different than the one given by my Dr. I think that if one follows the Drs recommendations of when to switch and the cookbooks recommendations of how to adapt the recipes for each stage, this book could be a big help.

You know, one of the reasons I underwent a gastric bypass surgery in December was to escape the hordes of diet religionists--those odd folks who have found the solution to their dietary woes and will proselytize until the cows come home.
Enough, says I, of no-carb, low-carb, non-fat, low-fat, this, that and the next. Surgery so altered my body that many of the choices I once made are invalid--out of my hands. I cant eat the crap that made me fat anymore because now it makes me sick.
And yet, imagine my dismay when, recovering from surgery, I found even more no-carb religionists among my surgically altered compatriots. One womans intolerance of my ideas was such that I had to filter her e-mail directly into the trash. Even though I had now an anatomy that wouldnt tolerate certain foods, she insisted that I had to further subjugate myself to her odd notions of nutrition. No carbs ever again.
And so it was with a sigh of relief that I opened this book to read my new mantra. all in moderation.
After all, surgery means that you can eat what you love. You can have good food and love it. What you cant do is binge. What you can do is make a meal of fat and sugar. And this book points the way.
Salads, entrees, desserts, its all here. And more. suggestions on how to change the contents of your refrigerator and pantry to make eating easier.
After all, life after surgery need not be deprivation. Most of got fat on deprivation and our inevitable gut-busting reaction to that, so a book that tells me how to enjoy what I now eat is a wonder to behold.
Thank you, Ms Levine. And thanks to my friend Laureen who recommended it.

A Whole New and Completely Delicious Way to Eat after Weight Loss Surgery

After her weight loss surgery in 2003, Patt Levine knew she would have to stick to a very restrictive diet, but there had to be something better than the totally tasteless mush her post-op food guidelines recommended. Levine put her cooking skills to work and now, in Eating Well after Weight Loss Surgery, she and collaborator Michele Bontempo-Saray offer over 140 original, low-fat, high-protein recipes that taste just as delicious pureed and chopped as they do served whole, so you can enjoy flavorful, satisfying meals through every stage of your post-op eating program and cook for your family and friendsall at the same time. These mouth-watering dishes, which cover everything from breakfast to dessert, include.

Crustless Spinach and Cheese Quiche * BBQ-Baked Chicken * Asian Turkey Dumplings * Cider-Glazed Pork Chops * London Broil with Horseradish Cream Moussaka * Salmon with Creamy Lime-Dill Sauce * Scallops Provencale * Orange-Ginger Tofu * Vegetable Frittata * Southwestern Tomato Soup * No-Noodle Zucchini Lasagna * Basic Cheesecake * Apricot and Strawberry Smoothie

Complete with advice from a certified nutritionist, helpful tips for stocking your pantry and refrigerator, and nutritional analyses for each recipe, Eating Well after Weight Loss Surgery is guaranteed to make eating a true pleasure and help you maintain your weight loss for years to come.

From the Publisher
Features special guidelines to help you prepare each dish for every stage of the Lap-Band, gastric bypass, and Biliopancreatic Diversion/DS (BPD/DS) post-op eating programs, as well as for family and friends who have not had weight loss surgery.