The REAL Skinny On Weight Loss Surgery: An Indispensable Guide to What You Can REALLY Expect!! (Paperback)
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<div>Dr. Randal Baker specializes in bariatric surgery and serves as Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Units at Spectrum Hospital, and is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Michigan State University. His bio-absorbable staple line product won the 2002 American Medical Innovation of the Year award. His research received the prestigious international INAMED Award. Karen J. Sparks is a gastric bypass patient. She is a former Dean of Business Administration and Technology at Baker College, and has been teaching for fifteen years, specializing in management strategies, administrative functions, and technology applications, with emphasis on real world application through experiential learning. Julie M. Janeway is a gastric bypass patient. She is a previously published author, a former on-air legal correspondent for a Michigan ABC affiliate, and currently teaches at Central Michigan University. Julie Janeway has taught for twelve years, specializing in law, political science, and social science.</div>
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This is not a technical manual on WLS, and it’s not meant to be. It’s a very well rounded book that humerously provides pre-surgery, surgery, and post-surgery information. As a pre-WLS patient, I have found it to be most helpful in “real-life” presentation of all the information gaps that exist for pre-WLS patients. Very digestible read!
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Real Skinny ion Weight Loss Surgery
This was a great down to earth book about what really happens during and after WLS. I highly recommend it for it’s directness and humor!
I purchased this book before my RNY surgery in a blitz to collect and read everything I could on this type of bariatric procedure. While this book is cleverly written, it’s not nearly as good as my favorite, and the one I took to the hospital with me, “Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies”, my bible.
I’m not sure if I believe these women when they detail their experiences. They’ve had every side-effect and complication, including some I ran to my surgeon with and neither he nor his entire staff had ever heard of. “Scramps” being one of them. Some of the things are laugh-out-loud funny, like when Karen goes out with her husband and doesn’t realize that post-bariatric surgery, alcohol speeds right into your bloodstream. She winds up screaming in laughter at a barking dog when her husband is forced to drive her home.
This book is a good read, kind of like a Fannie Flagg book, but I wouldn’t take it as law.
This was a great book! It is not a technical book but it is full of useful information that you don’t necessarily get prior and during surgery. I had Bariatric surgery and wish I had this prior and during my process. I facilitate a support group and am more than willing to recommend this book to pre and post op individuals.
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Great Book if you read through the typos
This is not a be-all end-all book about weight loss surgery. It does; however, give information about surgeries and the possible after effects (not that they had ALL possible…
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A Book that does tell it like it is!
I highly recommend this book to anyone considering weight loss surgery. The authors are real patients who tell of their personal experience after weight loss surgery.
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Real, revealing and entertaining
These ladies bring the real skinny to those of us interested in bariatric surgery, or those of us who are recovering.
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Must Have PRIOR to Surgery!
This book although in greater detail than needed should be a must read for all people considering weight loss bariatric surgery!
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The Real Skinny on Weight Loss Surgery
If you are considering bariatric surgery, this book is a must. It is a no-nonsense, plain-speaking book about why you might need this surgery and what you can really expect…
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Informative
I ordered several books to read – even though I had a mandatory 6 month class about the entire process, emotional, physical, food requirements and many other aspects.
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Great Buy!
This book is very informative and insightful. I recommend it to anyone contemplating weight loss surgery.
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not the best choice
I read this book along with the Weight Loss for Dummies book. The authors nearly scared me out of the procedure.
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Support Group in a Book
This book is a great compliment to other more serious works on the subject. It is a little silly, and reminds you of a support group.