John Carter - Gastric Sleeve Cookbook: A Food Guide to Stages One and Two of Your Gastric Sleeve Surgery Recuperation

Gastric Sleeve Cookbook

A Food Guide to Stages One and Two of Your Gastric Sleeve Surgery Recuperation

Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, Gastric Sleeve Cookbook: A Food Guide to Stages One and Two of Your Gastric Sleeve Surgery Recuperation.

While your doctor likely gave you some suggestions for what to eat or sent you to his dietitian, you can use this book to explore additional recipes. This book contains proven steps, strategies and blender recipes for creating tasty meals that will best enable a gastric sleeve patient to recuperate.

Youve just lost part of your stomach and now you need to figure out tasty menu options that you can have in small amounts for the next several weeks. You also need to be sure that you get sufficient nutrition from much less food than you are used to eating, though you will also need to take supplements now and for the rest of your life.

You wont feel well during those first few weeks after your surgery, so you wont want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Yet, you need to feed yourself nutritious and good-tasting meals and drinks.

We understand. You will find strategies in this book that will help you to get through this difficult time with as little trouble as possible. You will also discover many recipes for easy-to-make, tasty and nutritious smoothies and shakes, along with ideas for some soft food combinations that will help you on your journey back to good health. You will, no doubt, continue to make some of the delicious smoothies and shakes after you have recuperated!

Thanks again for downloading this book. I hope you enjoy it!

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Chapter 1: Steps and Strategies for Success

B efore Your Surgery

If you have not yet had your surgery, there are some things you can do ahead of time that will help you during those painful days.

• Change your diet.

You need to prepare your body for this procedure by going on a high- protein liquid diet one or two weeks before your surgery. This will shrink your liver, making the surgery safer for you.

• Change your grocery list.

You need to have a lot of protein-rich liquids before surgery and after surgery. Clear liquids are what you will consume immediately after your surgery for a day or two. After that phase, you will advance to protein shakes and pureed food.

• Get the clothes you will need.

You will need transition clothes for the various weights that you will be. You will want your initial clothing after the surgery to fit loosely. You will also want slip-on shoes so that you wont have to bend over to tie your shoes.

• Stop smoking.

Surgeons take smoking seriously. Just before surgery, they will likely give you a blood test to see whether you have been smoking lately. If you have, they will cancel your surgery. Why? If you are smoke-free, your recovery will be quicker. You will need to quit smoking one month before your surgery.

• Pack your hospital bag.

You will stay at the hospital one night, so pack whatever you will need for one night.

• Prepare your support group.

You will need both physical and mental support after your surgery. You need to educate people before your surgery and line volunteers up who can help you while you recover.

• Get your insurance or other financing source ready.

Your health insurance may not pay for this kind of surgery. Typically, body mass index and other health issues are involved. Get the financials ready to pay for your surgery.

• Get ahead of the household chores and shopping before surgery.

Make lots of smoothies (minus the ice cubes), cook and freeze meals, clean the house, and do all of the laundry before you go in for surgery so that nobody has to do those things later. Buy the stool softeners, over-the- counter medications and your prescriptions (if possible) ahead of time.

Your friends and family may help you, but it would be easier for everyone if you have most of the work done ahead of time. You will also be certain to not lack for anything while you are at a disadvantage.

• Get the facts.

Talk to your surgeon about any concerns or questions you have about your surgery so that you have a good understanding about what will be done and be less anxious about your surgery.

• Study up on proteins.

You will need to consume a lot of protein after your surgery. You need to try protein powders to discover which ones you like among the ones that wont add a lot of calories. Food sources are peanut butter, legumes, chicken, meats, and protein shakes.

After Your Surgery

• Follow your doctors prescribed diet.

Eat what your doctor tells you to eat after your surgery, which will consist of a lot of liquid. If you eat regular food too early or if you eat sugary or fat food, you may damage your stomach or harm yourself.

• Skip work until you have healed.

Depending on which kind of surgery you have and what type of work you do, you could be back to work as soon as two weeks after surgery if you do not lift anything heavy.

• Exercise when you can.

Wait about four weeks before you exercise or lift weights so that you will decrease the chance that you will get a hernia in the wound.