[.ca] Before & After: Living & Eating Well After Weight Loss ... (ISBN 0060567228)

Thank you, Thank you:
I recieved a copy of this book a little over a month after I had Gastric Bypass surgery. A gift from a concerned relative. The author's insights into the life of the morbidly obese and her honest retelling of her own experineces were refreshing and yet hauntingly familiar. I would recommend this book to anyone considering surgery or who has had the procedure, it's nice to know that we are not alone. I am, very slowly, working my way through the recipes included and have yet to find one that wasn't delicious. My own dietician looked over the recipes and said that she would be recommending Before and After to her future WLS clients! Thank you Mrs. Leach!

SAME OLD STORY JUST A NEW FACE:
After having gastric bypass surgery myself this book gave me NO new insight on the trial and triumphs of weight loss. This book was more of a sales pitch to sell a certain variety of vitamins and to throw a few names around. Makes me wonder was this book written as a 2 hour commercial. Also where the recipes written by her and tested. I tried a few recipes and not only did one of them not turn out but can you talk about tough and chewy, truly a bariatric nightmare. In order for a recipe to be healthy it needs to be able to be digested first.

Not worth the money!:
This book was like an infomercial selling her vitamins. Wow if this is all it takes to make money, I'm going to write a book too and make millions. Nice try Susan Maria. As preachy as she is on OH and always slamming the wonderful Carnie Wilson, she really needs to follow her own advice and there is no way she weighs 135 Lbs. I met her and I can vouch for that. I just wish people who have had WLS can be honest about how much weight they are really losing and keeping off. I had WLS and I am smaller than she is and weigh 135 Lbs.

I enjoyed this book cover to cover!:
This is an excellent book for pre or post ops. I loved reading of Susan Maria's escapades while she lost her weight. She writes about going to parties, on vacations and out to dinner. I understood her reasoning behind her food choices and can make better choices on my own because of her examples. Every recipe has come out perfect and has been delicious. My favorite is SF banana bread using banana protein powder in place of flour. There are several people who are visciously attacking Susan Maria on some of the MSN message boards, and some of the one star reviews reflect a joint effort to undermine her. Dont let these bitter people talk you out of buying this wonderful book that will help you greatly in your post op life. I hope that some of the bad reviewers get the psychological help they need. To launch a personal attack on a writer because "you are smaller than they are" is juvenile. Susan Maria always speaks highly of Carnie Wilson, and if you actually read Before & After you would know this. A great read!

Before and After: Living and Eating Well After WLS:
I was more like a journal of her experience w/ wls in the ~1st 60 pages... (perhaps if I read preop would of been more excited???) it is 1/2 recipes pages pp93-244 Q & A pp61-92 and should be a cookbook not WLS book (IMHO)...I guess with almost 2 yrs under my belt and being on 15 ossg-yahoo boards or more it didnt give meanything "new"...Dont get me wrong it isnt bad it just didnt add to my research/knowledge! My 2 cents..(*I wish I had saved the $17!!!)