Before & After, Revised Edition: Living and Eating Well After Weight-Loss Surgery

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	Before & After, Revised Edition: Living and Eating Well After Weight-Loss Surgery Susan Maria Leach William Morrow Cookbooks, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This is a MUST have Book!!!

This book is an excellent resource before and after weight loss surgery. Although the author is a bit negative about the lap-band procedure,(the surgery I had),she presents a truthful overview of bariatric surgery. Her recipes are really good and her advice for nutrition and protien supplements are awesome. Her web based company has reasonable priced products and will provide you with so many excellent choices that are not available elsewhere. Her web site will send you a weekly newsletter to help you through those first few difficult weeks. I can't describe how helpful all the resources have been; it changed my life. BRAVO to Susan Marie and her excellent staff!!!

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Before & After, Revised Edition: Living and Eating Well After Weight-Loss Surgery

I love this book. I love the recipes Susan Marie has created. I have not tasted anything bad tasting from the recipes I have tried.
Great resource for patients who want to eat well, yet not have sugar in their diet.
highly recommend this book.

Before and After Living and Eating Well after Weight-Loss Surgery

We found the book to be somewhat unrealistic for the common people. We travel by motorhome and fix our own meals. We do not frequent high priced restaurants as did the author and we live in a very small community in the upper peninsula of Michigan and do not have easy access to some of the ingredients in the recipes. We did find some of the recipes acceptable with some substitutions and much other good information.

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A Very Entertaining & Educational Book

My sister gave me a copy of this book several months after I had bariatric surgery and I found I was able to relate to many of the experiences that the author captured in this book. I particularly enjoyed the author's positive outlook and encouraging way of conveying even the negative aspects of having such a life altering operation because not everything about having a Roux-En-Y operation is pleasant.

I did not read the recipes she provided simply because my wife is Czech and does not allow me to cook anyway, but I am sure they offer some great ideas for those people finding it challenging to supplement their new diets with some good and healthy things to eat.

It has now been nine months since I had my operation and I am down to 192 lbs from a beginning weight of 332 lbs. As an engineer, and thus one that enjoys torturing data to a confession of what transpired, the one thing I would like to have seen the author include was some data documenting her progress following her operation. I guess I will just have to keep documenting my own progress and write my own book of experiences.

On the whole, this is a very good book for someone considering bariatric surgery or anyone close to someone considering bariatric surgery to read. Prior to having my surgery I read a lot of factual information to gain a thorough understanding of what to expect. In retrospect, it would not have altered or influenced my decision to have the surgery, but I am sure I would have appreciated reading this book beforehand if for no other reason than to reinforce the positives of having the operation and hear about it first-hand from the perspective of someone that had gone through it. Sure, I read many testimonials, both pro and con, but none written as a journey of emotions, disappointments, failures, and successes through the changes experienced leading up to and following having the procedure done like this book captures.

There is a lot more to consider than the obvious and this book does a good job either directly or indirectly - of pointing out many aspects that one should evaluate before making such a life changing decision. It is definitely worth reading and will certainly give you at least a few things to think about.

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