Not a question, but a valuable recommendation

I am sorry, but this is not a question. Many of you are asking questions that should have been addressed by your surgeon or nutritionist LONG before surgery... but apparently haven't. I STRONGLY recommend reading "Before and After" by Susan Maria Leach. She is 6 years post-op RNY, having lost 131 pounds and kept it off. The book is a brief bio, brief pre-op journal, post-op journal, list of questions and answers (to exactly the kinds of questions being asked on this board), and 135 low-carb, high protein recipes for living and eating well after weight-loss surgery. I got this book after another gastric bypass acquaintance recommended it - saying it was her "Bible" - and I can see why. I am pre-op gastric bypass, just waiting for my insurance to approve the procedure, and I have already been on the high-protein, low carb diet since October. I've lost 25 pounds so far, because my surgeon required me to lose as much weight as I could before the bypass, to help reduce the fatty liver, and also, to get used to "living the plan". I am living off of fish, turkey, chicken, cottage cheese, regular cheese, and a very few vegetables. I've been in preparation for this surgery ever since I decided in September to do it, and it is hard for me to understand those on this list who would work so hard to get approved for surgery, then after healing, think that they can go back to eating the way they did before. Sugar is a NO-NO. White carbs (potatoes, pasta, chips, popcorn, BREAD) are a no-no. Even if you are ABLE to eat them without being sick... they are NOT a part of your life-long eating plan. I highly recommend this book, please get it and follow it. I got it as part of a "beginner's kit" from another bariatric site.

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