Limor Haim Matityahoo: New Stomach Old Brain
Dear author,
Your book was interesting. Enjoyable? No. But it's not meant to be. It's about a serious thing: weight loss surgery. You write about what made you choose this drastic measure and what it changed in your life. After the operation, you could only eat a few spoons of food at a time, or drink two or three swallows. Anything more would hurt your stomach or make you puke. With the operation, you forced yourself to change your eating habits.
You don't talk about the medical implications of a stomach reduction. Your focus is on how it changed your social life and your feelings. Not always for the better: compliments on how much weight you lost sound hollow. Being thin hasn't made you happy, you write. Not really healthy, either. You lost hair, you're cold all the time - symptoms of malnutrition. It will probably get better once you stop losing weight.
I'd recommend your first-hand account to people who consider similar surgery. Under the amateurish writing and layout of the book hides useful information.
One question I have after reading New Stomach, Old Brain: You write that you could only drink about two cups of water a day in the beginning. Israel is a hot country. How did you stay hydrated?
Yours sincerely
Christina Widmann de Fran
New Stomach, Old Brain: How to lose 125 pounds in one year and stay sane by Limor Haim Matityahoo (Limitz)
self-published in 2017
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