Fairbanks, North Pole, Ft. Wainwright, Eielson, and any other Interior Alaska Patients

Because our next Support Group Meeting is two days before Christmas we have changed the date to;

Wednesday December 16TH, 7:00 at the Fairbanks Cancer Treatment Center

also, we are having a pot luck. bring something you can share that is LOW/NO SUGAR or HIGH PROTIEN, and please bring the recipe so you can share with everyone else.


Support Group Meeting, Wednesday December 16 @ 7:00PM

CHRISTMAS POTLUCK

Fairbanks Cancer Treatment Center

Subject: Healthy eating habits.
 
See you all there !!!!

Fairbanks, North Pole, Ft. Wainwright, Eielson, and any other Interior Alaska Patients.

Support Group Meeting TOMORROW, Wednesday Dec 9 @ 7:00PM

Fairbanks Cancer Treatment Center

Subject: ?

Hope to see you all there !!!!

So I'm interested in attending a meeting in Fairbanks...does anyone know when the next one will be held? I'd like to

My physician said he'll write the letter, so at this point I'll need to wait for my insurance approval. 

I've got tons of questions of course.  First off how did most of the Fairbanks area folks get to Anchorage?  I'm a new transplant here to Alaska, so I'm not experienced with driving down to Anchorage. 

Is flying an option?  I'm assuming I will need someone to accompany me to the surgery correct?  I think it's a long shot but does the insurance company pay for the transportation costs for surgery? How many trips to Anchorage is minimum for most? I would expect this to vary from person to person, but I'd like to figure out those cost now.

I currently deciding between Dr. Todd and Dr. Searles.  I believe Todd is more experienced, which I like, and Searles is more hands-off, which I like also.  I don't want to continue to jump through hoops for the sake of doing so. Any extra feedback that hasn't already been mentioned throughout the website?


Thanks everyone!

Today we released a couple of major updates to Health Tracker just in time for the holidays (as we continue on the path to Health Tracker world domination :). These updates include, 1) Profile display of Health Tracker - If you choose to, you are now able to display/share your Health Tracker within your personal profile. This can be kept completely private, it can be shared with only your friends or with the entire ObesityHelp community. 2) My Workouts - You are now able to build and store custom workouts that can be used over and over again. My Workouts will allow you to log multiple exercise/activity items at one time so you don't have to search for individual exercises each time you want to log your activity or exercise session.

Profile Display of Health Tracker .

The profile display of Health Tracker includes Body, Food Log, Exercise Log and the Macronutrient Report. As mentioned above, this can be kept entirely private or you can choose to share your Health Tracker information with friends, family, your bariatric surgeon or other clinicians.

In order to see the profile view of Health Tracker, when viewing your profile or another member's profile, look for the Health Tracker link to the right of the avatar. If there is no Health Tracker link, the profile view of Health Tracker has been set to private.

 

The privacy settings for Health Tracker can be found in the "Settings" section of My OH. To access your Health Tracker setting click My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, click the Health Tracker tab and choose the "Sharing" option. Or, just click here to access your Health Tracker Sharing options :)

Workouts

My Workouts makes it quick and easy to log routine exercise and activity. For those who perform similar exercises on a regular basis, with My Workouts you can create a workout consisting of a series of exercises you often perform and instead logging each exercise indivivudally, My Workouts allows to log a single item (a workout) that contains all of the exericses you have performed. Build it once and log it any number of times.

Under My Workouts you will see a list of workouts that you have created and saved. You can log workouts directly from My Workouts by selecting "I did this", choose the day and click "Save"

You can also search for workouts you have created directly from your Exercise Log.

Create your first workout now!

One other addition

For your convenience, in this release we have also made some changes to the account deactivation process. In case you ever have the need to deactivate your ObesityHelp account, you can access this function by clicking My OH at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select "Settings" on the left, and under the "General" tab select "Manage". Instructions for deactivating your account can be found there.

Have a great Thanksgiving and look for more updates soon!

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them in this thread on the Main Message Board.

http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/crossingtotransferaddictions/

Hi All,

There is a new OH Online Support Group. The above link will get you there.
It's called Crossing Over to Transfer Addictions.

This group discusses the issue of transfer addictions (also known as cross addictions) after weight loss surgery. there are millions of people who have undergone gastric bypass who are now dealing with issues of addiction transfer.

For a number of people, giving up overeating leads to adoption of a new compulsion. Addiction transfer occurs when someone is unable or unwilling to rely on one compulsion (for us, it was food) and so switches to a new compulsion (alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, shopping, internet, porn, etc) due to not having dealt with the underlying issue behind the compulsion.

***Please feel free (and safe) to join and discuss any and/all issues you have regarding Transfer Addiction. ***

WE WILL SUPPORT EACH OTHER WITHOUT JUDGEMENT!