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or any of the other books on surgeries by Alex and Natalie. For anyone who has not seen these books they are a must for yourself or a gift for anyone thinking about surgery and wanting to learn more. There is so much wonderful information in them. They are simple to understand, well illustrated with charts and diagrams and are full of ideas to help you through the process from your first thought about WLS to maintaining permanently. They are very upfront educating you in both positive and negative aspects of surgery but not scaring you in any way. They give a truly realistic idea of what this all about. Maybe they should be called the Weight Loss Bible of Gastric Sleeve etc etc. Thank you Alex and Natalie for all the work you put into writing these books.

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Thanks for the reminder about Alex's books. I had intended to order them for a while, but kept forgetting. Just got the pdf version. Even though I'm 31 month's post op, I need to occasionally re-read and remind myself of the things I need to do to live the WLS lifestyle. :-)

or any of the other books on surgeries by Alex and Natalie. For anyone who has not seen these books they are a must for yourself or a gift for anyone thinking about surgery and wanting to learn more. There is so much wonderful information in them. They are simple to understand, well illustrated with charts and diagrams and are full of ideas to help you through the process from your first thought about WLS to maintaining permanently. They are very upfront educating you in both positive and negative aspects of surgery but not scaring you in any way. They give a truly realistic idea of what this all about. Maybe they should be called the Weight Loss Bible of Gastric Sleeve etc etc. Thank you Alex and Natalie for all the work you put into writing these books.

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I originally wanted the sleeve so I bought the Big Book on Sleeve and now I decided to go for a Bypass and also bought the other book too. There is a lot of the same information shared in both books, however there are some differences. Glad I bought the books. Very thorough and 400+ pages. If anyone acts like I don't know what I'm doing I'm going to show them that I've read through both books!! That's a lot of information. I would highly recommend these books.

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