It Ain’t Over ‘til the Thin Lady Sings: How to Make Your Weight-Loss Surgery a Lasting Success

Michelle Ritchie
Hunter House (2007)
ISBN 0897934911
Reviewed by Andrea Barry for Reader Views (12/07)


I have to honestly say that this is one of the best “diet” books I have ever read. I am not presently considering weight loss surgery, though I have in the past and decided against it. One of the great things about this book is you don’t have to have weight loss surgery to use it. You don’t even have to have ever considered weight loss surgery to use it.

Unlike other books that you might find in the “Diet and Weight Loss” section in the book store, this book does not require that you do something radical in order to lose weight and be successful at it. This book is more like having a best friend who’s both been there and done that.

Chapter by chapter, Ritchie walks us through the steps to not only successfully lose weight, but to keep it off by making the necessary changes within ourselves. Each chapter has various stories, quotes, questions, and suggestions to help you look within yourself to find what it is that keeps you from being successful. Many of us have something that happened to us somewhere that makes any kind of success uncomfortable, so we hold ourselves back, not allowing ourselves to truly reach our potential.

After reading “It Ain’t Over ‘til the Thin Lady Sings,” I can say that I will need to go back and read it again, more slowly, over time, making the little changes as Ritchie suggests. I have a good feeling about it and can predict that over time, with this book in hand, I, too, can lose weight and keep it off, even without surgery.

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