Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery: Over 140 Delicious Low-Fat High-Protein Recipes to Enjoy in the Weeks, Months and Years After Surgery
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 friends—all 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.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great recipe ideas
This book is good, it gives your imagination a boost even before you cook. After my surgery I thought I’d have to eat cardboard, tasteless foods forever, or just water. This book opens up so many options you feel free.
5 Stars Best Book I’ve Found Yet!
I have three recipe books and this one is the best one. My husband loves the recipies as he is a fit man that works out a lot and my son also enjoys the simplicty on the dishes I make.
The recipies are quick and easy and delicious!!!! I also like the fact that each recipe also lists the nutritonal info as the other two boks I got do not do this.
5 Stars Fantastic cookbook with great WLS info
I purchased several WLS cookbooks at the same time. (I recommend getting them before the actual surgery and go shopping for the stuff pre-surgery to have on hand afterward.) This was the best of the three. The recipes are simple and good and the breakdowns for the different types of WLS and the applicable serving sizes are helpful. The recipes are mainly for 4 servings and that makes it easy to divvy up my portions and the ones for my husband so that we can have dinner for one night and use our leftovers for lunch the next day. I haven’t tried one recipe that I didn’t like. She does like the mushrooms though! Unfortunately, my husband hates them, so I take them out and try to add them just to my portions, if I can.
1 Stars I did not care for this cookbook
I purchased this book because I just had Lapband surgery. I am from NC and the recipes in this book sound like they are from Turkey! I do not even know if you can get those kinds of ingredients in our grocery stores - there were so many things I had not heard of. And….it would cost a fortune just to make one recipe because I counted at least 23 items needed for one recipe.
If you really want a book with great recipes, little preparation time and cost efficfient - I recommend the 5 Ingredient, 15 Minute cookbook from Cooking Light. I bought the book off of Amazon and it was cheaper than in Borders book store. This book is EXCELLENT!!! I lost 6 pounds in one week just eating the recipes in the book. It is great!! My husband and I have tried 8 meals out of it so far and they are ALL GREAT!! It is regular food cooked healthier - not some foreign food that you cannot even pronounce. I would not waste your money on this LapBand Cookbook - the only thing positive that I have to say about it is that it tells you how to prepare the food if you have had lapband, Bypass or Stapling done - and it tells you how to prepare it after you are so many weeks out of surgery - I did like that part - but there are NO pictures in there at all. The coooking light cookbook has a picture of every recipe.
5 Stars Excellent Cookbook for Creative Recipes after Lapband Surgery
My wife and I like this cookbook a great deal. At a time when virtually everything she likes was off the menu, this supplied some very practical menus and some insights on how to utilize spices and alternative ingredients to make dishes that are compliant with guidelines but taste good.
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