This is NOT Brain Surgery! A Mental Health Companion for the Gastric Bypass Patient

Author: Teri Kai Holtzclaw
List Price: $14.95
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ISBN: 0971260109
Publisher: Teri Kai Holtzclaw, Ph.D. (September, 2001)
Sales Rank: 151,497
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
This is REALLY helpful to bariatric patients!
I have gone through bariatric surgery and I KNOW how hard it is to lose weight and keep it off. This book succintly defines the problem in an accessible way and then helps the reader evaluate the mental issues involved with weight loss after surgery. There are no easy answers and lots of mental work to be done by surgery patients. Dr. Holtzclaw tells it like it is and this little book helped me, as a weight loss patient, come to grips with the issues facing us. I think this is a must-read for weight loss surgery patients and I look forward to more books from Dr. Holtzclaw.

Rating: 1 out of 5
Too Little Substance, Too Much Space
As with her other book, "The Magic Pill," this book has one basic and useful premise. That insight is interesting, but not worth the price of the book. The problem is that the material for one paragraph has been turned into an entire book.

Everything I've said in my review of "The Magic Pill" applies here. Ms. Holtzclaw would not have passed my junior English class. Moreover, as someone who has since had RNY and dealt with the issues surrounding it, I don't find her premise to be at all universally applicable. If you want one good guide to weight loss surgery, there are better choices.

Rating: 1 out of 5
This book was totally useless to me
I bought this book pre-op, and at 6 months out, I can truthfully say that it was a complete and utter waste of money. The author seems to believe that all morbidly obese people are completely [messed up] in the head and losing the "crutch" of overeating is going to cause all our demons to come surging forth to wreak havoc. Well, sorry to disappoint you, Ms. Holtzclaw, but the only demon plaguing me was a metabolism that was [messed] up from years of yoyo dieting. OF COURSE this is not brain surgery...DUH (and by the way, I am hard pressed to imagine a more condescending and insulting title for a book like this). But I've got news: most of us don't NEED brain surgery; what we need is a tool that will keep our bodies from sabotaging all our efforts to lose weight and keep it off. Gastric bypass has given me that, and the only emotional challenge I have faced is adjusting to my success. (And believe it or not, pre-ops, that IS a challenge, albeit a fun one. *grin*) To anyone planning to have weight loss surgery, my recommendation is to give this book a pass and save the money to help pay for the new clothes you're going to need in a few months.

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