Before & After, Revised Edition: Living and Eating Well After Weight-Loss Surgery
	Author: Susan Maria Leach Published: 2007-07-01
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Customer comments on this selection. love it I enjoyed my purchase, it was easy great product and arrived early. The seller discribed it well in the write up so I knew exactly what I was geting and was happy on the transaction. Loved it! Funny, informative and great if you are considering weight loss surgery or just got it. Its her journey to how she got where she was and what made her decide to get it. It also has some useful recipes and great advice and tips after the surgery. Disappointed I will admit that I didn't read most of the book but don't feel like I missed a lot after reading some of the comments here. I bought the book because I was looking for realistic recipes for meals post surgery. I got the book home and started looking at it and realized that it was so far from realistic it wasn't even funny. As someone else mentioned the recipes were more "gourmet" and extensive. Also the amounts of food that you were going to prepare were ridiculous. One recipe called for 8 chicken breasts, another for a pound and a half of shrimp. I've just had gastric bypass surgery and live alone. There is no way I will ever be able to consume a meal made with 8 chicken breasts by myself. Not to mention that when I really looked few of the recipes sounded all that appealing. RNY Gastric Surgery This was a great read for a first hand account of someone who went through RNY Gastric Surgery. Not only was it about her trials and tribulations. But answered a lot of questions and gave info on everything you might ask. Great Book For Foodies. I have read the reviews and have seen some people trash this book as unrealistic. And that may be true for some. But I am a Foodie from way back. I learned to cook (and cook well) before I was 18. I like to cook. I love to eat. And there as I was, wondering what I was going to do with my life, giving up a major part of who I was. I was just barely 100 lbs. overweight, but the sudden onset of Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and a host of other symptoms led me to surgery as the best option. This book led to my decision to go ahead and proceed with the surgery. My wife and I read it together before surgery. It helped both of us. No doubt, she tries to sell products from her website. But her stories gave me hope that I would still be able to enjoy eating after surgery. Some of her recipes kept me from completely losing my mind during the pureed food stage. I am about a month post-op and I am about to read the book again. I was happy with it the first time, and I expect to get more information and encouragement from it the second time through. No, it isn't a science textbook. If you want cold hard facts, there are other books. And a ton of information online. This book offers the personal story of one lady's experience told as if she were talking with a friend. It's an approach that I enjoyed. I won't be jet -setting around like her, buy our eating and life habits were similar enough. She enjoys good food strategically. This is not a bad approach. Thanks. I'm glad I bought it.
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