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Are there any good recipe books for us that I could purchase online?? I want simple recipes since most of what we eat at home are middle eastern food.. I can't track calories or anything without losing my head and giving up the idea of eating. I don't know how to make western food and am always paranoid. I am living on tuna wraps and vegetable Soups that are starting to taste pretty nasty..

Help please.. I will get carried away and end up overwhelmed on the net. I need a physical book to pull out recipes from.

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While I'm not familiar with them, there are a number of cookbooks designed for people who have had surgery. They won't be particularly helpful for tracking your calories and other data. There are some good sources for tracking. One is My Fitness Pal, which people say is fairly easy to use. There is also the website sparkpeople.com, which takes a little work to get used to using.

Middle Eastern cuisine is fine for you. (I'd love to come cook at your house and learn.) To track it or anything else you may cook, you'll have to enter the ingredients and their amounts.

Tracking takes a little work, but it doesn't have to make you "lose your head." We need our heads in order to do the eating and tracking.

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Please look at Pinterest, Bariatric food recipes, and you will find a cookbook is not necessary!!!! Good luck!

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That's where I would look for it normally but I have adhd and if I end up looking for ideas there, God knows where I will end up. I will probably search up a healthy cookbook in general and pick my way through that.

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If you cook then it should be fairly easy to adapt healthy recipes for your needs. The post-op food phases are based on texture. You will be focusing on Protein first, vegetables and fresh fruits, second. I generally avoid starches, added sugars, especially high fructose corn Syrup, and fried foods.

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I have two on my list to buy, they were recommended to me so I guess they are second hand recommendations, they are recipes for life after weight loss surgery by Margaret Furtado and The Weight Loss Surgery Cookbook for Dummies

I hope that one or both fits your needs

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