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Monday, March 14, 2011

Simple, Yet Delicious, Post-Bariatric Surgery Recipes

Following a weight loss surgery, the biggest adjustment for patients is learning how to reintroduce their favorite foods into a new, healthy lifestyle. Instead of eating large meals during the day, the focus shifts to dietary quality over quantity. Now that the stomach has been reduced to the size of an egg, each meal has to pack serious nutritional punch to ensure weight loss success. The following recipes, courtesy of Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook For Dummies, are prime examples of how to make delicious-tasting meals that limit calories while providing excellent sources of protein.

Cooking healthy is a vital component in the bariatric surgery process.

Cooking healthy is a vital component in the bariatric surgery process.

Havarti Scramble with Salmon

Not only are eggs a high source of protein, but they make for a quick meal any time of the day. Feel free to substitute your favorite variety of cheese in this recipe or swap in shrimp instead of salmon. Yield: 4 servings.

  • 6 large eggs
  • ¼ cup nonfat milk
  • 2 ounces Havarti cheese, cut into small pieces
  • Salt and Pepper to taste
  • 1 teaspoon minced chives
  • 1 teaspoon butter
  • ½ cup canned salmon, no skin or bones

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Bariatric Surgery Diet

Shortly after undergoing a surgical weight loss procedure the diet that must be followed can be strict. You must adhere to the liquid diet, high protein intake, and soft foods that allow you to ease back into normal eating. But what happens when normal eating commences? The trick is to change the way we approach eating.

A healthy stir fry

A healthy stir fry

Once a patient has been recovering from surgery for over six months a regular palette of foods can fully be introduced. Surely there will be foods that still foods that you may find your body not tolerating as well as others such as red meats, breads, dried fruits, and raw vegetables. Low fat, low sugar foods are easy to process, and the variety within those parameters is enormous. Sticking to a 900-1000 calorie per day, along with roughly 2 liters of water, limit during this period will help you lose weight fast.

On initial glace, the description of food intake and food variety might seem slim or unappealing, but that is far from the case. The amount of foods you can eat are quite plentiful, in fact.
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Friday, November 5, 2010

Healthy Low-Calorie Dinner Options: Beef & Vegetable Stir Fry

In just a few minutes, you can prepare a delicious, low calorie, nutritious and flavorful meal for your entire family
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lb of Broccoli
1 lb of cut beef (flank steak, sirloin, whatever the grocery store has cut for stir fry)
Soy sauce
Minced garlic (comes in a jar – great stuff)
Stir Fry sauce (lots of varieties out there)
Pepper
Vegetable oil

First- take your steak out and put it in a shallow pan and cover it with soy sauce and some vegetable oil (3 parts soy sauce, 1 part oil) – some people prefer to toss in a teaspoon of corn starch to bind it all together. Add some pepper to taste. This is just a marinade that will put some nice flavor in the beef. You can even do this the night before. Put all those ingredients together and store in the refrigerator – the longer that you marinade the beef, the more tender it becomes, but don’t marinade for longer than a day.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Crutches, and the Easy Way Out

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Melissa had struggled with her weight all her life. At 340 pounds, she had tried every diet you can think of. She’d lost and gained, lost and gained, as many of us have done, but year after year she found herself a it heavier instead of a bit lighter from all her efforts.

Finally, she decided to have gastric bypass surgery. She was desperate to get control of her weight and her eating. She wanted to be around to live a long healthy life for her little daughter. And nine months later, she’d dropped 120 pounds and was well on her way to her goal.

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