Hello, my name is Kathleen Lisson. My first experience with eating after surgery happened the week after I shattered my cheekbone in a skiing accident. I was discharged from the hospital after facial reconstruction surgery with instructions to focus on eating foods that were easy to chew and digest. 

I felt so excited! I LOVE comfort foods. I imagined sipping vegetable bouillon and eating instant mashed potatoes with butter to my heart’s content.  I remember wandering around the drug store and looking at the labels of meal replacement drinks for seniors while my prescriptions were being filled. I bought a few of those, too. That was the sum total of my post-surgery nutrition plan. 

I had no idea how difficult and tiring it would be to cook. I could barely stand in the shower! 

I had no idea how soon it would be until I was sick of instant mashed potatoes. 

I had no idea that salty foods increased swelling.

I absolutely had no idea which foods could have helped me reduce inflammation and bring my body back into balance.

If what I ate was a big part of recovering from surgery, someone would have told me, right? 

Talk about what NOT to do. Over a decade later, I am so happy to have put the information in this class together to ensure that you do not have to suffer through the same experience.

I wrote the Southern California Plastic Surgery Cookbook and this class to be the resource I wish I had before my surgery. I want it to be YOUR resource, too!