Ewing Joseph - Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery, Revised and Updated

ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR RECIPES FOR LIFE AFTER WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY, REVISED & UPDATED:

Ms. Furtado is a leading national and international expert in dietary issues relating to weight-loss surgery and played a key role in the formulation of the dietary guidelines currently recommended by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Her dietary insights and suggested recipes are based on over ten years of clinical experience counseling and caring for patients after surgical weight loss. This new book is clearly a must-have not only for patients after bariatric surgery, but also for health care providers and dieticians helping to manage these patients after surgery.

THOMAS MAGNUSON, M.D., chair, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and director, Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery

Margaret Furtado [is] one of the most highly acclaimed nutritionists in bariatrics. Follow the dietary guidelines she recommends in this book and enjoy the many delicious recipes at each stage of your postoperative progression to health and weight-loss success.

CYNTHIA BUFFINGTON, PH.D., director of research and education, Metabolic Medicine and Surgery Institute, Florida Hospital Celebration (Florida) Health

An essential read for anyone who is dedicated to optimizing weight loss.

HIEN T. NGUYEN, M.D., bariatric surgeon, Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery

Whether you are considering bariatric surgery or are post-op, this is a must-read! Margaret is my go-to resource for bariatric nutrition, and her book can bring this wealth of knowledge to you.

KIMBERLY E. STEELE, M.D., bariatric surgeon, Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery

Margaret Furtado has compassionately and professionally helped bariatric surgical patients at three majorbariatric surgical programs, that being: Tufts Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery. Margarets greatest accomplishment is creating this amazing book for surgical patients, which allows them to enjoy eating while maintaining the dietary restrictions. The book should be a requirement for all patients contemplating surgery.

SCOTT A. SHIKORA, M.D., F.A.C.S., division chief, general and bariatric surgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Margaret Furtados door is always open to the constant stream of weight-loss surgery patients, colleagues, and students who seek her expertise in nutrition. She is tireless in her dedication to the field of nutrition and especially to the practice of bariatrics.

CYNTHIA FINLEY, R.D., L.D.N., clinical dietitian specialist, Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery

MARGARET M. FURTADO, M.S., R.D., L.D.N.

LYNETTE SHULTZ, L.R.C.P., R.T.

CHEF JOSEPH EWING, B.S.

There have been explosive increases in both the incidence of severe obesity and bariatric surgery in the last decade. (Bariatric surgical procedures have increased more than 600 percent.) These phenomena are experienced worldwide. This massive expansion in an operative procedure in such a short time period is unprecedented in the history of medicine. It is estimated that more than 200,000 Americans (and another 200,000 adults worldwide) undergo a bariatric operation each year. This dramatic increase in operative cases is in part a testament to the safety and efficacy of the currently performed surgical procedures, including the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, and the biliopancreatic diversion (with or without duodenal switch).

Although the operative procedures are relatively safe, patients must dramatically alter their eating habits to accommodate and cooperate with the surgery to achieve meaningful and sustainable weight loss. All of the current procedures profoundly change ones eating. In all cases, patients must eat smaller portion sizes, as well as more nutritious choices to overcome the potential nutritional deficiencies that could result from the nutrient restriction, malabsorption, or food preference alterations caused by surgery. While significant eating habit changes are a reality of life for the postoperative (also called postop) bariatric patient, a major goal of the surgery is to enable the morbidly obese patient to feel more normal, not abnormal. However, dietary changes such as these can have adverse behavioral effects and enhance the perception that the obese individual is permanently a patient.

Recipes for Life after Weight-Loss Surgery: Delicious Dishes for Nourishing the New You, written by Margaret Furtado, a dietitian with extensive experience nutritionally caring for bariatric surgical patients, is a wonderful and novel book that attempts to support the tenet that patients should feel like normal people after surgery. This book contains hundreds of recipes for delicious dishes that cover an array of tastes for all meal times. In addition, the meals are appropriate for bariatric surgery, covering the nutritional requirements for these patients. Each recipe includes the required ingredients, preparation instructions, and nutritional breakdown.

While Recipes for Life after Weight-Loss Surgery does not address all of the postoperative problems many patients face after surgery, it does cure the concerns about the boring or medical-like diets that patients often find themselves following after surgery. This book should be a staple for all bariatric surgical patients.

Scott A. Shikora, M.D, F.A.C.S.

Chief, Division of Bariatric Surgery

Tufts-New England Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts

Congratulations! Youve made a very important decision to improve your health by having weight-loss surgery. Now its time to use good nutrition to maximize not only your weight loss, but your health, vitality, and renewed sense of well-being. Im happy to share my extensive nutrition background and expertise in weight-loss surgery with you, and I am thrilled youve chosen Recipes for Life after Weight-Loss Surgery to help guide you in this exciting new period in your life! Lets get started!

The guidelines outlined in the following pages are general instructions and suggestions that I typically provide to my bariatric surgery patients based upon years of experience and input from three different bariatric surgery centers of excellence Ive had the privilege of working at. This new edition of Recipes for Life after Weight-Loss Surgery