Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast, brought to you by

nutritional weight and wellness. My name is Leah Kleintrode and I'm a registered and licensed

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So on today's show, I will be answering one question that we received from one of our

Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

This listener asks how to get through

post-surgery without gaining weight and making the most of nutrition. So it's a great question,

and I'll bet you this question piqued some people's interest. I mean, surgery is a relatively

common experience these days, and it's definitely something that can have a major

lasting impact on our health, how our bodies look, and how they perform. I will say we did a

wonderful Dishing Up Nutrition show back on March 5th of 2024, so just this year, about

healing fast from surgery. So I really encourage listeners to go

back and give that episode a listen in conjunction with this mini episode. I learned from that

particular show that the average person will have nine surgeries in their lifetime. Then, of course,

I had to go start counting up my own personal

surgeries. I'm up to five already. I actually just had my ACL and my right knee repaired last

year, so this topic is still relatively fresh on my mind. So when we think about surgery,

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