Tired of your long struggle with obesity? Maybe it's time to consider bariatric surgery.

After decades of struggling with her weight, Jamie J. Palfrey chose to cut her gut--to undergo bariatric surgery. Her only regret is that she didn't do it sooner.

In Cut Gut: Why Bariatric Surgery Could Be Right for You--Yes, You!, Palfrey shares her thirty-year journey of dealing with the pain, health complications, and stigma associated with obesity. Like with so many obese people, shame, blame, medical myth, and dubious promises kept her locked in a cycle of fad diets and expensive weight-loss programs. It wasn't until she stopped chasing the erroneous weight-loss formula and opened her mind to critically explore a medical intervention for obesity that she made the decisions--personal, financial, and medical--to change her life for good.

Palfrey has navigated the complicated landscape of surgical weight-loss options available to those with 30+ BMI. In this honest account and practical guide, she shares all that she's learned about legitimate medical intervention and living a healthy and happy life after bariatric surgery.