Eating Right for Life

Eating Right for Life is a tailored collection of over 140 recipes that were put together and updated in order to meet the healthy nutritional guidelines of a weight loss surgery (WLS) individual by being low in sugar, calories, fat and carbohydrates while still high in protein.

These recipes satisfy the requirements of a WLS patient while still being delicious, easy to prepare, cost efficient and appealing to an entire family--including young children. The recipes in this cookbook are well rounded to provide a diverse collection for breakfast, simple sides, a variety of meat courses, not so sinful desserts as well as a whole chapter on how to creatively improve your protein drinks.

This collection offers options for all stages in the bariatric journey, both pre and postoperatively, as well as by patients in different eating programs for gastric bypass, Lap-Band and Biliopancreatric Diversional Duodenal Switch (BPD-DS) patients.

About the Author

Renee Gurley is a bariatric success story, having WLS surgery in 2010. She has lost and maintained over 185 pounds of weight loss--starting at a size 28 down to a healthy size 8. Having a family with little kids requires her bariatric cooking be both inexpensive, quick and easy with simple ingredients. A lifelong foodie, Renee loves using her skill of adapting traditional recipes into a more health conscience and bariatric friendly cooking style. Weight loss surgery individuals can still enjoy cooking and eating; it's all in learning to make substitutions for certain ingredients to improve the overall nutritional content of your recipes. Renee is the blogger for The Gobbling Gurley; she also is a guest culinary columnist for the bariatric e-publication "Silhouette". Renee speaks at multiple bariatric centers of excellence, specializing in providing nutrition and support groups with information on ways to incorporate healthy cooking and improved lifestyle choices for a long term weight loss surgery success.