Scheduled for Surgery?  Use the time well to nourish your body, quit your bad habits and start an exercise program designed with you in mind.  

Many people have elective surgery for many reasons, and how long they have had the problem, will often be reflected in their general health.  
Elective surgery gives you a window of opportunity where you can do so much to improve your health and potentially affect your outcome.  
Stop stressing about going into hospital, now is the time to take action and get ready to boost your nutritional status, reduce your risk factors for complications, reduce your hospital stay.

Enquire today about pre and postoperative nutrition programs

About me

Before children, I was a general nurse who worked on wards, but later specialised in Intensive Care.  It was an amazing career spanning over 20 years where I have witnessed many people undergoing surgery, and have seen first hand the complications that can happen as a result.  Now looking back after re skilling as a nutritionist, I realise how important having a solid nutritional foundation is to healing.  Make the weeks before elective surgery a time where you nourish your health, to give your body the resources that it needs  to recover from the trauma of surgery. The healthier you are going into surgery the smoother and faster your recovery will be.  

Pre and post operative nutritional management plan

Studies have shown again and again that your nutritional status determines how well you recover from an operation.  Depending on the severity of the operation our nervous system activates the stress response, releasing cortisol our stress hormone and a host of other inflammatory mediators.  This is a natural response to surgery where our bodies are in a flux of damage control to repair the body.  Problems arise when we don't have the resources to allow this normal response to happen leading to a host of post operative complications:
In a 2016 study based in the Uk, data was collected over a 2 week period from 6 major hospitals on patients scheduled for elective abdominal surgery.  Out of 268 elective abdominal operations preformed 11.9% suffered from respiratory complications.  Interestingly that with every additional minute of operating time independent of other factors, significantly increased the length of hospital stay.

"The natural healing force within each one of us, is the greatest force in getting well.  
​Our food should be our medicine, our medicine be our food"

-Hippocrates

Here are some of the common post operative complications

Collapsed lung
Haemorrhage
Wound Breakdown
Respiratory or wound infection
Blood clots
Pulmonary embolism
Post operative confusion

Could this happen to you?  

Pre and Postoperative nutritional management plan

Going into surgery is a team effort.  I will endeavour to work with you and your surgeon to follow their guidelines prior to surgery.  After each consultation I will correspond with your surgeon to update them on your progress. 

4 Week Preoperative Management Plan
Week 1 - Initial nutrition consultation and introduction to Preparation week - getting your home ready, cleaning out your pantry and experimenting with recipes.  
Phasing out the foods that cause harm and eating foods that are healing 
Weekly email contact
Facebook private group mentoring page
Week 3 - Follow up nutrition appointment
Includes:  
Pantry lists, recipes, menu plans, general nutrition recommendations, quit smoking advice and exercise recommendations
Planning for your hospital stay - include strategies for stocking up the freezer, tips for foods to bring in to hospital postoperatively, and what to have when you get home.

6 Week Post Operative Recovery Management Plan
Nutrition consultation once home from hospital
Weekly email contact 
Facebook private group mentoring page
Online shopping and healthy food delivery options
Nutrient dense food options for healing depending on stage and progress
Rotating meal plans, shopping tips
Second nutrition consultation

Be proactive, and be healthy for surgery
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Cost:
4 week Preoperative nutrition management plan  - $250.00
4 week Postoperative nutrition (from home onwards) management plan - $250.00
Payment plans available on request

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