Before and After: Living and Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery

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Summary: Love it!
Review: This book is fabulous--not only is Susan Maria's story inspiring, I've loved all the recipes I've tried.
Great job!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book offered no useful information. I also didn't care for her preachy tone or sales pitches for vitamins.


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Summary: Not worth the money!
Review: 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.

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Summary: I enjoyed this book cover to cover!
Review: 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!

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Summary: Before & After
Review: This was a great book. It has many wonderful recipes in it. Also lots of information for weight loss surgery pre-ops and pos-ops. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Wow, just what I needed!!!
Review: This was exactly what I needed to read after my operation. This book gives hope to people having RNY that food can still be something that we can look forward to and still enjoy post-op. The chapters on pureed and soft foods and shakes are perfect for the early stage that I'm in.
I found that there were simple recipes as well as fancy recipes. They all sound wonderful and the ones I've tried so far have been incredible. Thank you Susan Maria!!!