Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook

Foreword

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any years ago, weight loss surgery was viewed as this medical mira-

cle, a magic bullet for weight loss. This fi t perfectly with our desire to

lose weight without changing our ways — in other words, having our cake

and eating it, too. What we came to fi nd out is that surgery is just a tool, and

if you don’t use that tool correctly, success will be fl eeting.

We now know that surgery is only part of the process, and weight loss is

truly a journey and not a destination. To reach your goals and change your

life, you have to change the way you look at food. Surgery will help control

portion size, but it won’t make you eat fruits and vegetables. I am always

surprised at how little most people know about preparing healthy meals, and

without this knowledge, attempting to make the surgery successful can be

frustrating.

What every patient should have the moment he or she leaves the hospital

is a user guide for cooking, eating, and living well after surgery. That guide

should specify from day one through the rest of his or her life how to shop

for and prepare nutritious meals that will not only help that patient lose

weight but will also help him or her to live a happy, healthy life. Of course,

if those meals are merely “good for you” and not tasty and fulfi lling, this

attempt will become just another diet that is tried and abandoned.

Fortunately, thanks to Chef Dave, Karen Meyers, and Brian Davidson, Weight

Loss Surgery Cookbook For Dummies provides readers not only the essential

guidance they need for healthy eating and healthy living, but also plenty of

delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes that people will absolutely love to eat.

Chef Dave’s knowledge about cooking is unrivaled, and his compassion for

people who are struggling with weight loss is evident. (Having fought and

won his own battle with weight has made him truly empathetic.) For this

book, he teamed up with Karen Meyers, an experienced dietitian, to create

nearly 150 recipe creations that not only taste delicious but are also highly

nutritious and geared for people who have had weight loss surgery.

Of course, recipes and advice are all well and good, but for a guide book to

be truly useful, the information has to be easy to fi nd, easy to read, and easy

to digest (pun intended). Otherwise, the book is barely worth the paper it’s

printed on. Thankfully, Brian Davidson, coauthor of Weight Loss Surgery For

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