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Nutrition Care Across the Weight Loss Surgery Process

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The purpose of this chapter is to help the reader gain an understanding of the nutritional considerations of weight management during four critical phases of the weight loss surgery process, which we call preparing, healing, achieving, and maintaining. We recognize that this is a slight departure from the surgical approach more commonly encountered in the research literature: “preoperative,” “early postoperative,” and “later postoperative.” The reason for relabeling the phases of the weight loss surgery process is simple: we want to think about the weight loss process from a patient perspective rather than solely a surgical perspective. Focusing on the experience of the weight loss process from a patient’s perspective may help us more clearly identify the changing role of diet and eating behaviors through the different phases of the process and provide the dietitian and other bariatric team members with tools for counseling, educating, and encouraging patients throughout this process.

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  1. Central Jersey Bariatrics, 901 West Main Street, Suite 103 MAB, Freehold, NJ, 07728, USA

    Julie M. Parrott MS, RD, CPT

  2. Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, SHRP, Newark, NJ, USA

    J. Scott Parrott PhD

  3. Department of Quantitative Methods, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, Newark, NJ, USA

    J. Scott Parrott PhD

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    Christopher Still

  2. Department of Weight and Eating Disorders, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    David B. Sarwer

  3. Policy Initiatives and Advocacy, American Dietetic Association, Falls Church, Virginia, USA

    Jeanne Blankenship

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Parrott, J.M., Parrott, J.S. (2014). Nutrition Care Across the Weight Loss Surgery Process. In: Still, C., Sarwer, D., Blankenship, J. (eds) The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1197-4_14

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