Super Simple Recipes for Weight-Loss Surgery Recovery: Easy, Delicious Recipes to Support Health - Paperback

by Margaret Furtado (Author)

A variety of tasty meals that are tailored for each stage of your post-operative eating plan from an expert doctor.

Weight-loss surgery is only the first step to maintaining a healthy weight. Post-surgery is when it is most important to maintain proper eating habits with the right balance of nutrients. Super Simple Recipes for Weight-Loss Surgery Recovery provides you with not only recipes that are delicious and specifically tailored to weight-loss surgery requirements, but meal plans and pantry lists as well.

You'll find mouthwatering mains like Zucchini Frittata with Capers and Olives and Sesame-Glazed Salmon. Seasonal recipes keep things interesting as well, with Lavender-Blueberry Muffins to make the most of summer berry picking and Fall Harvest Pumpkin Soup to welcome chillier weather.

Of course, all recipes include nutritional analysis and the meal plans are tailored to each post-op stage. In short, you'll find less overwhelm and more inspiration to cook through recovery!

Author Biography

Margaret Furtado, MS, RD, LDN, a registered and licensed dietitian-nutritionist with almost 20 years' clinical experience, is currently part of the multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts General Hospital/MGH Weight Center, where she counsels patients on both medical and surgical weight loss (including gastric bypass and gastric banding procedures). Prior to working at MGH, Ms. Furtado spent 4 years working at Tufts New England Medical Center's (NEMC) Obesity Consult Center, providing both individual and group consultations for gastric bypass, gastric banding, and BPD surgery patients. It was while at NEMC that she wrote Recipes for Life After Weight-Loss Surgery. Margaret earned her Master's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, and her BS degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Rhode Island. Ms. Furtado lectures across the country on issues pertaining to weight loss surgery.