(PDF) Obesity Surgery – Stories of Altered Lives by Marta Meana, Lindsey Ricciardi

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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1
Getting There from Here
Taking the Leap: Deciding on Surgery 11
Resisting the Last Resort 15
The Turning Points 26
The Unexpected Revolution of Losing Weight 51
Responding to the Kindness of Strangers: Now You Don’t See Me, Now You Do 54
Suddenly Waiters Are Smiling 57
Workplace Changes 63
Receding Weight-Romantic Advances 72
Attention Is a Good Thing…Right? 83
Changing the Dynamics in Your Inner Circle: Your Change Becomes Everybody Else’s 88
Loving the Loss or Losing the Love? 91
Is Looking Sexy Being Sexy? 104
From the Mouths of Babes 109
Rocking the Friendship Boat 114
Shaking Up the Family 125
Deconstructing the Self: Who Was I and Who Am I Becoming? 131
How Could I Have Let Myself Get to This? 134
Who Might I Have Become? 139
Is It Them or Is It Me? 144
Will My Brain Ever Catch Up? 148
Facing the Music of Self: When Weight Is No Longer the Reason 159
What Made Me Fat in the First Place? 160
Losing theArmor of Fat 166
Owning What’s Yours 176
Is There a User’s Manual to the New Me? 180
Losing the Pounds and Finding Your Self 184
Mapping the Journey
Greater Than the Weight of Our Parts: Making Sense of It All 193
Getting From Before to After 195
Born Again? 203
Tension in Change 204
What Is Success? 207
Through Thick and Thin: Planning for Success 212
Presurgical Module 215
Postsurgical Module 226
Concluding Note: Neither Weight nor Weight Loss 233
Selected Resources for Public and Health Professionals 235
Notes 241
Bibliography 255
Index 263