We hope this announcement finds you well. As the world’s largest online community dedicated to the gastric sleeve BariatricPal can provide valuable support and information along your weight loss journey. We’d like to take this opportunity to tell you that BariatricPal.com has another exciting way to help out our members pursue weight loss and health. It’s our very own Big Book on the Gastric Sleeve!

The Big Book on the Gastric Sleeve!
That’s right! BariatricPal.com is not only a social network, but now also the source of the complete book called “The Big Book on the Gastric Sleeve: Everything You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Live Well with the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy.” Author Alex Brecher is the founder of BariatricPal.com. He is a weight loss surgery patient who has successfully lost and kept off over 100 pounds, and he is committed to helping other weight loss surgery patients experience the same success. Co-author Natalie Stein is a nutritionist and weight loss specialist who provides expertise on the sleeve diet.

A Complete Guide to Life after the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy
This unique book is one of the very few that are dedicated completely to the gastric sleeve. As the title says, it’s a big book that covers everything about the sleeve! It is a guide that you can use from before surgery to after you have reached your goal weight. These are just a few topics that are covered in the book.

• How obesity can harm you and millions of others
• Why it’s so tough to lose weight without surgery
• The vertical sleeve gastrectomy procedure
• How the gastric sleeve works to help you lose weight
• Risks and benefits to decide whether the gastric sleeve is for you
• Choosing a surgeon and preparing for surgery.
• The postoperative follow-up care program
• The postoperative diet progression from liquids to solid foods.
• The vertical sleeve gastrectomy diet: healthy eating and weight control for life
• Starting and continuing an exercise program.
• Physical and psychological changes to expect as you lose weight
• How to build a can’t-fail support system
• BariatricPal.com and other resources for support and information.

How Can You Get Your Copy?
The Big Book on the Gastric Sleeve: Everything You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Live Well with the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy is available direct from BariatricPal.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks and Kobo. You can get a hard copy or download an electronic version for Kindle, Nook, iOS or Kobo. Check it out and spread the word!

BariatricPal.com Members Tell Their Stories in the Book!
The book doesn’t just have complete, understandable information about the vertical sleeve gastrectomy. It’s also a compilation of real-life member stories told in their own words. The book features BariatricPal.com members who were kind enough to share their stories with us and now with you! These members are some of BariatricPal.com’s most active ones, and you’ll probably meet them on the boards soon if you haven’t already!

Do You Want to Be in the Next Book?
If you didn’t get involved this time around but you might like to be featured in another book, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you and give you the scoop!

We’d love to hear your thoughts about the book! Let us know what you think when you check it out! We’re always delighted to hear from BariatricPal.com members and we want to know what we can do to help you along your journey. Thanks for your support up through now, and enjoy The Big Book on the Gastric Sleeve!

Well, I have had an Amazon credit toward a Kindle purchase since March, so guess what I just used it on? I can't wait to start reading!

I bought it and I LOVE IT!!! Great wealth of knowledge and super easy to read and absorb the information! Thank you so much!!! And yes I got it from amazon!

Good suggestions! ! And I can't read enough on the subject! ! New things come up every day as I learn about my new tummy & sleeve. Thanks for awesome book.

I received my book a couple weeks ago. My daughter was under the weather last weekend, so while she took a four hour nap, I read -almost nonstop.

This weekend I'm not feeling well, so I had more time to read (in between naps).

I'm just about done and love it. Easy read and I like how it takes us from A-Z.

By the way, I bought another book from Amazon (on gastric sleeve) . it was highly rated but I put it down to ready this one.

Thank you.

I bought the big book on the Gastric Sleeve (Kindle version), and it has been a great help!! I read more and more each night in preparation for my gastric sleeve surgery. I want to learn all I can about the surgery, pre-op, post-op, etc. I got some new kitchen gadgets to help me with my post-op (life long) diet too---mainly a mini food processor. Thanks for all the great info!!

I am still waiting for my dietition appointment (already set for the middle of this month) and my patient education class. By then, hopefully, I'll have all the other pre-surgery workups done. Waiting for appointment for the initial EGD too. Not worried about that part of it, since I've been thru those before.

I've been assigned to Dr. Aragon with the KC Bariatric Surgery Center on Prairie Star Parkway in Lenexa, KS. I did not see his name in the Surgeon's area of the profile page. He is a new doctor there, and works with Dr. Hoehn and Dr. Hamilton there.

I would love to read this book, but can't find it on my nook. Is it only available for kindle?

I would love to read this book, but can't find it on my nook. Is it only available for kindle?

We agreed to give Amazon/Kindle exclusive rights to distribute the book. You can purchase the Nook version directly from BariatricPal here.

I'm also interested in what I've heard, was an excellent read however, I have an iPad. Do you have an iPad version as well?

@alexbrecher

Edited September 13, 201411 yr by waitingtoexhale

Sure! You can use the Kindle app on your iPad or you can use the PDF version.

I'm having surgery on 9/22 and would love to be in the next book ????

Got a nook copy today will start reading tonight!

Can I use my ecig after surgery? I think I was told no straws, but have read on hear you can eat foods that can be seen thru a straw??? I am confused! I havent smoked a real cigarette for over a year

But I love my ecig! Tleigh1669@gmail.com

Do they sell the book in hard back at Amazon? Tleigh1669@gmail.com

Do they sell the book in hard back at Amazon? Tleigh1669@gmail.com

All of the books are available in softcover via Amazon.

Just out of curiosity, if we paid for the Kindle version (I ordered mine a few days ago), can we get a deal on the printed version if we want both? I know some publishers offer that, and I wanted to check - I'd love to have both.