Seasoned personal trainer Pamela Harrelson offers readers much-needed inspiration and up-to-date information. This is NOT a diet book! Unique and original to other health and fitness books, The Rest of the Truth focuses, with great passion and academic facts, on what it takes to maintain weight loss after a dramatic drop, whether from a surgical procedure or otherwise, and how to reverse self-destructive eating behaviors in order to take control of your body, brain, and your life. After studying at the LSU Medical School, she would later complete a comprehensive study on metabolism and genetics, which she includes in her book.. As a result of 23 years of personal training she gives insights into moderate, results oriented exercise. Also there is an interesting informative chapter on How To Find a Personal Trainer, which she felt compelled to write after years in the business. Because of her overall surgery experience, Harrelson is neither for nor against Bariatric procedures. Presently, a substantial number of five and ten year post-op patients have re-gained much of their weight loss, which truly ignites her passion to help them and others. Second Edition: Many Revisions Since 2009.