Morbid obesity, when a person`s weight reaches life-threatening levels, is becoming more and more prevalent. What is it like to be this big? How does society treat you? What does gastric surgery (often the only effective tretment) involve--and how do you adjust to living inside a new smaller body? Saundra Beuchamp-Parke outlines the practicalities of considering, undergoing and recovering from gastric surgery, offering unique insight into this problem and society`s attitudes to it. Her readble and thoughtful account will enable families and friends of sufferers to understand the problem better and sufferers themselves to recognize that they are not alone.