Eating Well after Weight Loss Surgery: Over 150 Delicious Low-Fat High-Protein Recipes to Enjoy in the Weeks, Months, and Years after Surgery Paperback – December 18, 2018

I was a little skeptical at first when I ordered it, but I became quickly happy as I initially browsed this book.This cookbook, with numerous delicious recipes, addresses several concerns amongst weight-loss patients, whether you have a lap-band, gastric bypass. or BPD-DS:1. It informs each type of patient how they should ingest the food depending how long it has been since their surgery. For example, if you're recovering from lap band surgery and it's been more than a week, it will inform you that you should puree your food. Beyond that, it will let you know what you should do incrementally. AS WITH ANYTHING, CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR ANYWAY - my doctor agreed with most of its recommendations, but you should always be knowledgable about the medical field's recent findings.2. Nutritional data - calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates, cholesterol, fiber and sodium. These are all hot topics with weight-loss surgery patients and each recipe gives you a breakdown of each, per serving, to a ludicrous 2-decimal accuracy. This is helpful for ALL of us.Contrary to another review that I read on this product that initially gave me pause, the ingredients are not too "exotic." I've been cooking out of the Joy of Cooking book for years and nothing within THIS book surprised me in the slightest. If you're used to Stouffers and Hungry Man dinners, you might be a little baffled by the ingredient list; however, casual cooks will recognize most if not all of the ingredients. I was able to find ALL the ingredients at a local Fry's grocery store and Costco as needed.My absolute favorites in this book are the "asian turkey-filled cabbage dumplings" and the "un-pasta lasagna with tomato sauce" (which uses zuchinni strips instead of noodles). Both recipes make me feel like I'm cheating, but I'm not!!!!

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 can't 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 woman's 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 wouldn't 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 can't do is binge. What you can't do is make a meal of fat and sugar. And this book points the way.Salads, entrees, desserts, it's 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 us 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!

This book is great mostly after the first year after surgery because i helps your figure out new ways to cook and eat the same things as usual but with a twist.Also helps with portions because after surgery a whole meal is up to 4 ounces.

I'm a lap-band patient and a picky eater, two things which are not necessarily the best combination. I picked this book up a week after surgery, when I was desperate to at least read about food that wasn't protein shakes or Jell-O. It was much to my surprise that I found an easy dozen recipes on the first pass that sounded as though I'd enjoy them.Only a dozen? Well, yes. When I say 'picky eater', I mean 'picky eater'; it's not a slight on the book. Entire swathes of it I ignored, but what remained was a good selection. I've made about half a dozen of the recipes thus far and had no disappointments.The ingredient list is occasionally what might be considered more 'gourmet' but is generally accessible. (And by 'accessible', I mean 'available in central Wisconsin', which is hardly a haven for unusual ingredients.) Thus far, I've only had one recipe call for something I didn't have and couldn't get locally.Perhaps the thing that makes me love this book the most is the nutritional information provided for each recipe; it's marvelous to know that I'm getting 31.41g of protein out of a meal. The serving guidelines for each stage after surgery are also handy, but should be followed with some amount of caution, as they don't necessarily jive with every surgeon's recommendations.Although I'm a WLS patient, the rest of my family isn't, and it's great to still be able to serve them tasty food that doesn't usually require much time or culinary expertise. For the price, it's hard to go wrong with this book.

One thing people should be aware of is that most recipes in here involve fish or meat. So its not very helpful to vegetarians. As a vegetarian, I felt that. Second, if you have a gastric bypass you can't eat many of the recipes in here until five weeks out from surgery. The book does a good job explaining who can use each recipe for each kind of WLS.